Show RAPID ballooning BAL LOOKING AN AERONAUT WHO TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC IN TWO daya lieutenant mallet of the french balloon society pays bays anat within the next twelve months the atlantic ocean will be crossed by frenck balloonists mr mallett is quite a young man not moie than 26 or 28 years of aidea capable aeronaut and thorough enthusiast I 1 in all matters connected with the construction st of balloons it was he be who designed the horia on which captain jovis guy de Mau passant and a party of journalists and ancl himself went down from paris to heyst a little belgian town last week he received the press correspondent in his laboratory yesterday 1 we expect he be said to leave paris for new york about the end of be september P our balloon la france is being constructed under our supervision and the bag in which the gas is stored will be varnished with a preparation patented by captain jovis this varnish renders the material with which the bag is made almost impermeable thus preventing the escape of the gas we lost lout but very little gas during aurim week the trip across france last dut but what will you do about pro provisions I 1 your tour balloon will wil need to have an enormous carra jag capacity to meet the requirements of an ocean voyage we shall not want much in the wa dav y of food 11 and I 1 suppose what you do take can be regarded at as ballast 11 I 1 added under the impression impress loa that the passage would be a long one and that possibly the adventurers would be tacking about over the atlantic for the likelihood of either lAnding themselves back on the american coast at the end of that time or cr else compelled to drop down iaac the sea anti and wait lor for a passing ship to pick them up no we are aie not likely to require a greab reat stock of food replied mr air mallet we expect to make he passage in thirty five or fifty hours at the outside s de which will be at the rate of seventy miles an hour boar during the winter frequent atmospheric disturbances pass frona from america to the north of europe europ e we to launch in one of the these e tempests and hope in thirty five hours to be on the coasts of europe we shall take a couple of collapse able alle boats with us the bodge will be effected ina in a balloon twenty seven yards in diameter and with a cu cubic bac capacity of about square yards the storage bag will be constructed with three thickness es of material As to the fittings of the ear I 1 shall profit by my mediterranean ex eri ances and I 1 dont think thee will fe leave e much to be desired 11 1 and you expect to leave new york in ili october I 1 believe it is impossible to say we ma may y have to wait till december or exen even january for an atmospheric dist disturbance gy b which may be expected e tp to c eross r oss the atlantic and pass laag war coast I 1 doubt dont know that I 1 CB cau tell you IOU any more mord novy bov that aul wul VV I 1 b in of interest to you 1 I lqis is coy press |