Show HOLES IN THE AIH AIR persons going about in balloons should beware of them chicago tribune II 11 Henne ol 01 paris franco hennegin yIn who hrs ha had some experience in aerial navigation arrived in the C city R yesterday fr from 0 M san san francisco on 2 hia way ay home homo mr hennequin Uen equi n wag was in fontenay 0 t ens at the time T IS i n dier and gower had ad their startling adventure in a baloon tile traveller is an intimate friend of gower and tells the ilia story of their fall 1111 of a mile as its the balloonist related it to him thor they ascended from I 1 house ouse in paris and floated off toward vincennes and as the wind was somewhat strong from the northeast the two men soon disappeared from the view of paris having risen to a h height of 1500 feet when they had reached fontenay however they were fully feet above the earth they i were sailing along smoot smoothly lily watching the scenes below when suddenly they seemed to fall into a hole in the atmosphere mo sphere and down they went at a terrific rate gower glanced at the needle of the vertical scale it was traveling with lightning speed A roar filled their ears and both men thought their time had come nothing Not bini had happened to the balloon it was bened n perfect condition but there seemed to be ro air to bold it up d desperately lie ly threw out sand sandbag bags they empei were ere f falling li ageo eo rapidly that tho bags were left far behind and disappeared above them fhe iho earth seemed to bo be rushing at them with tile speed of a comet there seemed to ba be no atmosphere mo moo sphere phere left and they could scarcely breathe b roa t be As a last resort threw throw over the anchor and find the remaining ballast and the big balloon after a ru rush ruh h of a mile through the tile air regained its poise and the they 7 were saved the earth was as but fifty ty feet below this goes to show continued 3 mr fr lien that too much precaution cannot be observed lucarey ing plenty of ballast there are in 0 the air occasional rarefactions rare factions and when a balloon once gets into one of them it drops like a piece of lead gower and anti sailed into a veritable pit in the air and had they not n ot had bad iota of ballast aboard they would have been dashed to pieces piece |