Show A PASTIME OF MANY DANGERS Ballooning may mar bo be a delightful pas pastime time for those SO constituted that look lookIng lug Ing down from a dizzy height Inspires In them no feeling of discomfort but butth th the average person can get moro more pleas plea pleasure ure out of a trolley trolle ride or 01 fL a stroll The aeronaut who went up In a dir balloon at Redding Cal Ca on Sat Saturday urdu and came ame down a wreck of his former self Is another navigator of the air to come to grief A few fow years at dangling In the all air In InvariablY invariably variablY brings disaster The Tho un ex balloon loses Its gas bursts or s strikes a the 1 venturesome aeronaut is maimed for I life or killed s sAt I II At Redding Hedding the engine of the steering steer I I ing apparatus ripped lipped a vole In the covering of tho balloon allowing the I gas to escape The bo sparker of the en engine engine gine Ignited the gas and an explosion followed So far our famous Zeppelin has es escaped escaped these accidents although he has bas had half hail a dozen narrow escapes If he is not buried by fragments then his tombstone can record an epitaph some something thing like this ZEPPELIN An Aeronaut Died aNaL a Nat NatUral ural Death |