Show Wants to Balloon f Across the Atlantic i ra aI I U 50 I 1 can CIUI Sat 0 LONDoN L balloon lal huge t enough land and MY any or a lUC of a steady eat ar r a wind I 1 Will wil tile Ik r on om London to Us kate u HII h r a trip has bu been 11 1 I wW do 40 II h Lu 1101 lilt I Ib wu was nut to 10 nir I 1 I Ih ot of insane a en but I lot L it tine tilt A E 1 i and capon lilt d Ih world who has halo brine I elm to at 1 let least d aIt ono tit breaking the or r by h hunt t his hta to Palace Lon ot of d Russia a aunt Ill lay 1 a r q as 1 the crow ft n mall m II world wort warrant warranty y ns steer the tale Ite det hr h j I tin th e ry daring rut tur this d dy I n I Is this Ihla ha aeronaut 1 11 many ascents but 4 sent ot of the octal I I of no Wt t hi It ha death Si 0 ta lii bd w h CO I set f It and h he Of a lu hit now rd I u a being but Iii 1 Il the vocation of ty u is It th II the th street It ta say td Yoh wh g ot of the men IDen In 10 I I la ah face to 0 face nellt d su II It au nuts as a O d of h of t both I vin i n t I tro from g Ii a realer a Mlle r distance than for far from Ih the It I Ulan h he heap bOl 1 f LI t that I hs haM g II 18 I him r I since Bal Is II rah t i a H AH aK r Ik h r r I I a b Lh 1 I of low Ile It 0 th t ter rII r Canny I world Cf f t lea I Rene r I hll to lit is men llian to set t It nil aU i w taros r hl hi ju I file bathlo ti M iii 1 Ilk y r s t test Ir 1 t I t II uhf il h hail I bl 4 the color r iron from almost any other mans man lair haiT It would mako a human document as at as any that ever var has ben been whiten It is doubtful If Pmt Prof could ber any ony but an extremely small of his hIM many exploits but when I saw him In his biB balloon haul at Alexandra Palace lA Q a few day ago h he Note WUI able w and willing to tell me some come of till the meet thrilling He opened up h Ira account by taking me back Mck to th the time au 10 YN years a ago when he began bigan hi his o re rise r ra ae a I 1 1 tn in Paris when I first became me Interested In ballooning he h hW laid W aM took to the tha from the tho tart start After making two ur or three ala with a J I de decided decided one ane lie day to go 0 up sine 1 Was 81 only In DIY year r and ly I out nut so cautious then a as I aught be benow now oUte I 1 never would h done such lIeh iii a foolhardy thing III as I 1 did When tit the hoar ClIme came for tile balloon to 10 en n immense had dud orid red tA in a suburb ot of Pare To III my din Lb the for tor some re tea KIn eon or ar other would wouW pet not rise riN with my myel weight el hl and that eh t the basket com COlli boned After walling peso limo the who had P paid Id their money tu du ass tb the pert became Im ImPAtient PAtient and tot hot I lust to lu du do I that I would wood cast oft Ott the and aM go WI up in the rill MAC As Aa you per perhaps kAow 1 balloon ha Jut Just below INlow the seek k at t tb the t ta a wooden ring hoWl holds up U the oar This nU par oular balloon was WaA well nil I built the ring was a sued d one OM and tI supported la es It was wall i boy hundreds or of rope It dd not Ir to me t that t could be any danger r at all In say IMI lur tow the Dr t the ket JaY AY MS do 0 I 4 the tune to gut cut oft off the car sad RAIl the balloon ia minus millu 1 Its baa 11 kat aAd with only my weight abet II up the thet air Ot Of the th crowd wildly and I tilt quite lull planned with during the lIt fleet taw few mm min ul I had not been In III th the air very long however when I began to 14 feel a Sort of over OTer me Ine and I beast so raJat falat I 1 could hold Oft on to the ring J I could not account fra low a as 1 never naver self trem vae II t tho cane often often with acme aeronauts Suddenly I 1 realized realised wh whet t was Vas the th matter maUer I wa was being asphyxiated by bythe the gas coming from the bottom or of the balloon My In hr the ring In Instead stead of In the tho basket brought mo me quite cl clue to the neck of the balloon Al AI AImo Almost most mo t all n balloons balloon are open at the bet bot tilled only with hydrogen a as mine was Ast An the bal balloon loon w went t up the cooler atmosphere contracted the envelope of silk Milk and foxed d out Alai a lot of ar gas over ovar JIlT my heal I made IL a feeble fable effort to lean out from the Uto rinG so u as to from the hy drogen tum fumes but It wu was no good I had no rope by which I 1 GOuld could lower below the ring Into a place of safety and nd even It I lain had bad one I doubt very It I would have had enough to 10 hold oat on as the hydrogen hod made ado me ma quite lick after atter some of In Intense tell tense bodily and mental ment an Iah I could Dot resist t the terrible feeling ot of U that t oem came over lea I and I Iott passed oft ott Into a state atte of n noes this WIll was the best thing for tor ms me for tor had bad I fully realised my terrible ter danger I might have thrown my may salt out ot of the ring In despair FIVE HOURI Alter After five hours tn in the sir air during my mr wine never returned w to me meI m mI I landed un ua a haystack a ab away from rota Paris A As I wan I Ih the peasants thought i 1 was waa dead Thy They carried awl to a tD In a email l I town and I 1 wu warn IU for months One On would naturally think that after fIer this adventure I 1 would wold tinY have boon cured But as soon uon se 1 pi Well I 1 boI aaa to Lo yarn In lIo again n for tIN the gait ment No misused to Lo mutt me and I 1 was Interesting myself in finally I gave ve up every VI WUK and i IL a professional bal balloonist After melting n many hundred bundre tit ot ota a eAta trout from various put parte ot of Europe I went In for tor parachute work i down from a ballum In iii a is not w 10 d dangerous vie It dl ep ap a good eye and JUd Mt ate ut coures It Iton one on m mashes careful O bufor 10 hard wing Ut that every evar poad pro pre caution l mishap ham baa been taPa taka aU all the Lb ropes taIt aar the th slipknots to It If they work ork properly and aAd all that tM the IM do went lIt entail few I 1 always made my do 1 scents nt with great and aDd moon gained a wide ld reputation invited mo me to give I and I traveled about an over ever Europe nt IR In the whole MUI sour tt at there there was WILlI only one Ups UI when hen r I fait that I waa a ganger g n year ashen In my r I wu was invited to togiva give giva an all at In Aw AU tria I 1 did not speak the native inn Ian but All an to Lo help u me III ht giving to the men who w were to 10 pt get the balloon ready Nady CARRIED OUT TO SmA AEA This balloon had bad ban 11 made Cl ally for parachuting It carried no 1141 and UtI there mss R no valve valva by to let out tM the pI when you OU wished to come com d down wn I wu was In fixing bing t the parachute hule to Lo tile the bottom of the 1111 ring and alad told the Interpreter to 0 lilt up gently n II misunderstood me ma and before I knew what I ha wu was saying he called out to his men inset In Italian Let Iet frO go I was WILa In the theria ring ria And the be parachute WI w h I not hooked on Suddenly tb the balloon shot up In Intile inthe tile the alrand I found myself In th the mime predicament a la tM the age I al already ready have llave described d with the addi additional danger er that a wind wu was blowing me ma over tb the sea seaMy My Mr first Unpin was toO to jump from the ring for tor I 1 knew that tn in an hour ter tm tIO 1 would be 70 trout from la land d with mighty m lint chanos ot of being picked lip up Bufor fl I could make ke up my A mild to Jump however the tle bal Iasi balloon loon bon had guno une up test ft and of mores Our to trot from that height wow would 1 hay hav meant sure ure I had of mind er on th this occasion to climb out on the nt hut tug where 1 made fast Ity by paw IM Inn rope roS around my bod body In Ie lose than halt hail as hour bow I bat Noll Mown wn tb three and aid a haft batt mil mUse out to sew and bolting down dawn I saw MW m but a vast expense of toeing wave with the liu ot of U the land tine Mal Mat Setting further aw awI away T J Nl really I gave a myself up for tor lit It on oa I Ib Ibis O occasion for tor I knew that w the balloon CA came IO down tn in th the water my weight would tore tUI me 1118 under It fW far u as I tried to up It Il top It turned with me not having an any as would woul be iii dI came aae It If It had had a bullet basket HARROW ESCAPE enough Ace I mad u um up m my mind that the there was no hope pe for forme me In I 1 coined to worry A calm feeling u of c cam over me meI I proceeded to take taka limps see r and be drag to Ie took look about In III the kb near TrI I saw MW a small steamer De Sit wu was coming in NY my t I no 9 reason to tA shirk this th ear MeM would pay much h attention to 10 ma le consider er me simply a 11 I 1st t an ordinary journey They certainly would not O r ark nl me as 18 In ally dan or realise that I had no DO haskit end no menu ot of descent t save ve Into the sin It w warn Jut just here ho however r that I had not calculated correctly The Th lit littI littie tI tie teams I saw wee wall a boAt specially chartered by Ute tie governor ot of Trl to togo go la In search earch of see me When the steamer leamer wise About half bait a mile mil off my balloon all the gas Pin trough some mysterious cape OlLIlA It spit Nut down tit the sea with tre dou rapidity I 1 had provided myself with a lit belt and ami I to ret get into this just Juat vie w we were the w water or I disco tangled myself from t Ule e and mana managed oed to keep kp t afloat unit the boat cam Cain up I think that was the cloI cb eat elt shave I aver lied had In 10 my lit life AT fir MT LOUIS When at lt at Iou Lous sons Y year ago went wrong with Ib tit the valve of m my bUooa loon and l 1 could not let tb the gas out when b 1 wished to descend The ou WM ms that I kept on OD go In bug higher And higher until m my in tru told m I wu worn I fat teet above the earth I think that is a record or Of course u till all was WIllI almost almot unbearably I cold euld end and I suffered terrible u ure from blood lu Ih the eyes INUit ears and mouth mauth After Atter lo con for tor a efort ort time lea balloon began to descend of ism Ita own accord ecord and MiS I 1 got Qt back Mck Into a breathable le at nw Th tao however was a moot mat Oni OM OMIn Lt In the recent tripe trip which I have titer there tau hae beep II little UtU of f rea reel danger The Tb ugly trouble I ever had war from natives na 11 tives of 01 Russia where I landed some year ago alfO In a trip from TIt These people waned to regard red the decent ot of an n aeronaut as IL a godsend and UtI Ibe they at once ne proceeded I to loot nty my ou outfit lilt They TIley tse toIe pretty neatly everything movable from the balloon Including even Ute the anchor Though the In auld have With bean ot of no earth I by one to them lIM they seemed Ined to W er It II their duty duly not nol to leavi anything It was WIlM only ulily after I beget to protest tn in incest net that r I In pe UI the authorities to 10 Interest I bad 4 bribe than Ihm to pt gut aces I ot of otIn toy In Instrument nw beck uk lilies that e I always Iw lave laveion ion OM armed rm and nd I 1 do 40 not to toIv glue Iv th the people to ta understand that I Intend to 10 protect 01 my property r I hAve had little IIttI trouble sine I mili militant tant tattle sad nII k t the eI wU n Md with It 11 money noy I MV hay great t WI y when tn myself It 1114 In foreign wh whose H I tift Is ant speak peak In 11 an ignorant nt seemly j I suck as f r e of et I cannot get any one to help the pack Jok Up the balloon ae Ute natives are MIts many of them kem never having sec seca en a balloon before tont looking upon It u as bewitched 1 W B |