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Show A. LEO STEVENS, WHO WILL ACCOMPANY AC-COMPANY PROF. TODD IN HIS AT-TEMPT AT-TEMPT TO COMMUNICATE WITH MARS. Stevens continued, reverting to the 'Mars experiments, "I know little or nothing of the manner in which Prof. Todd Intends to try to learn if the other planet Is inhabited. I understood under-stood from what he said that his efforts ef-forts will be to catch some sound or sound vibrations with some exceedingly exceeding-ly delicate Instruments that he will carry. I am simply accompanying him in my capacity of aeronautic pilot. "From the way the professor explained ex-plained the car that he Is haing built for us I gather that Its walls are to be of double thickness of aluminum alum-inum with padding between them. There will be windows on all four sides and a door, of course. It will be made air tight. '"Our oxygon pumps will be so equipped that we can supply ourselves for practically any length of time with air, 60 that as far as that is concerned con-cerned we could stay up Indefinitely. We also intend to carry' instruments that will record our height. This Cnckswcll and Glazier neglected to do, so their altitude was guessed at approximately ap-proximately and has since been disputed dis-puted by some people. "Prof. Todd and myself will use water as ballast with tho aluminum car. so that all we will have to do to lighten it will be to turn a valve and let some of the water go. ' ' f' '' ?' ("''' I "I havo been making ascensions ever since I was nine yea.rs old end I have yet to meet with an accident. So absolutely do I feel master of when ! I can land, almost to the minute, that j It Is hard for me to understand other I people's fear of ballooning. I "Really, It is royal sport, one of its ; most exciting and Interesting features i hclng the fact that you arc more or j less dependable upon the air currents I for direction. When you make your ! ascent it Is purely a case of 'you don't j know whero you're going, but you're on your way.' Doesn't it sound glorious?" New York, June o. When the enthusiastic en-thusiastic Prof. David P. Todd of Amherst Am-herst goes up In his balloon to signal Mars next fall his only companion will be A Leo Stevens. Prof. Todd's hope Is that after an altitude of ten miles has been attained he will be able to detect vibrations by means of delicate instruments by which Mais may bo trying to communicate with the earth. Leo Stevens is as much at home In tho air as on the earth and enjovs the sport. When seen at 282 Ninth avenue ave-nue last night he manifested the greatest great-est interest in the approchlng ascension ascen-sion "Seven miles is the greatest height that has ever been attained by human beings." Mr. Stevens explained. "This-was "This-was done by Coekswell and Glazier. Thoy nearly died, too. It .was said that the numbness and paralysis overcame them almost in the time of one heart beat. As for myself, I havo J never been up higher than a few miles. "Did I feel it?" Mr. Stevens repeated. repeat-ed. "Well, scarcely at all. You see, I am pretty strong good, firm heart action and all that, and besides I ' never wait until I feel myself actually weakening before I get a reinforcement reinforce-ment of oxygen After a certain height I take a little every now and then, anyway. "As far as I am concerned," Mr. |