Show his terrible threat aviation has improved considerably since the time when col cleary then county commissioner and for years a well known chicagoan made a balloon ascension at a county fair over in michigan says the chicago journal As the guest of lionor honor the colonel was sent upward with the assurance ta that at there ther was absolutely no danger but as the distance from the earth grew greater the colonel leaned out anxiously fullme Pull me in he shouted I 1 the men who were balli bailing g out the N rope paid no heed to his demand higher and higher went the balloon wilder and wilder grew the colonel finally almost standing on his head as he tried to keep a precarious balance he gave a final cry of exasperated panic pull me in I 1 tell you or ill out cut the rope |