Show A FEMININE AERONAUTS NERVE it carried hr safely through a period cl awful peril fully persons assembled at jackson mound park yesterday afternoon to witness the balloon ascension and parachute jump by miss dessa garrett miss garrett is a small but compact and well knit woman and of light weight and thia fact ai it proved later saved her from a frightful fate at 6 the balloon was fully inflated and the eager throng ot sightseers sightsee is mounted benches and tables to get a good view of the start the ropes were released at a given signal prof robinson cried all and up shot the aerial ship with its mccu pant hanging to the trapeze bar up ant the balloon till the aeronaut could hardly be distinguished and a hush settled on the crowd below as the awful consequence of a fall from that dizzy height presented itself to their minds many of those present bad opera and field glasses through which they viewed every movement of the balloon and its occupant A height of fully feet was at length attained and the balloon commenced to slowly descend and still miss garrett did not make the leap she was seen to attempt to pull the parachute toward her but something was evidently wrong As the balloon descended the parachute expanded and when about feet from terra firma miss garrett let go of the bar of the balloon and in trusted herself to the parachute the latter however did not detach itself from the balloon and the two continued slowly to descend A few were heard to remark when they saw the apparently baay and safe descent anat it was done by prearrangement and blat the aeronaut did not intend to make the jump when she made the ascent such people and the crowd gen orally were not aware that miss garret was by very reason of the parachute not detaching itself in most deadly peril of being dashed to atoms prof robinson knew it and his cheek blanched as he awaited the threatened catastrophe mr J J hogan v as aware of it and went into the ticket office to avoid seeing what he thought was so also did s few others who knew enough of the relation the parachute bore to the balloon to be aware of what result might be expected the parachute is fastened with a cord to the side of the balloon in one place the cord is almost cut in iwo and when the places bis or her weight in the parachute the cord is broken in the weak spot and the parachute ia freed in yesterdays ascension the cord became twisted thus giving it double strength and when miss garrett ecung out on the parachute the jerk was insufficient to part the line it was at this juncture that the danger was most imminent the cord being attached to the side of the balloon the weight on it caused it to careen and a puff of was seen to issue from it ii turned half over but no further had it turned a few feet further had the ladys weight been a few pounds greater it would have cap sized it was immediately over the parachute had it would have collapsed and its weight of pounds would have come down on the parachute and in a few seconds later miss garrett would have been dashed to the earth the danger was not over till the balloonist was in jumping distance of the ground hut she made the descent in perfect safety about a mile south of the park miss garrett fully understood her awful position as she hung BUS in bedair uncertain at what moment she would be dashed to piece but she is true grit and never faltered she knew that all she could do was to hang on and hope for the beet and she hung on and was saved where a weaker comans womans heart would have failed her and she would have fainted and met an awful death |