The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-26
Asccn sion Of Youthful Aeronaut.

From the Alta California, Aug. 20
About coo persons collected yesterday afternoon a
Oakland to MI. Kelly make promised ascension in
ms balloon The balloon for the was one Of the
largest .ize about IS feet in diametsr made OF ye
low silk The for the ascension was in the town
not far from the wharf The arrangements for the
gas Esss ,r mot properly nag and q.
more than half full
At O'Clock it two thirds full, ard the crowd be-
coming impatient, Kelly determined to try il. He had
provided Blankets provisions bags of sand and so forth
but the balloon would not rise with him. Kelly being
rather 5 ss.y Lighter ,. then got they
coened ard moved Off about eco yards sweeping along
near the ground The cIo~d cslledfor boy and mum
Der OF them who were cried "Iet goo The car
had been taken of make the balloon as light as
possible and light hoop about inch square and three
feet in diameter, with light board four inches wide
shed across the middle offered the only position for
stat.
Upon end o. this board where e,ted on tha hooo
Kelys partner who was at little distances cried to them
to hold till he had given the boy the proper directions;
but he had barely tine to tell the boy to pull the rops
when he should wish to come down. when the persons
let 60, and the balloon arose rapidly 1t rst took
outnwa,d course until It had gone about two miles, when
it struck another current Of air and took northern
ccurse ard when last was among the Clouds proba
bly, eight or ten miles OF Oaklsnd and
The boy was fruit vsnder Of this city, and was selling
fruit in Oakland yesterday morning His parents live
California street BE went without any provisions or
nrey pounds a1d to be about twsvs years o
age, though he was really sixteen.
tod him that 4 would be Decssary To null to ,i tss
balloon down Some persons said they "a the boy pull
the rope and Ii break but this is no. probable Ga
the rope appeared strong enough to bear two hundred
bsssn to express their regrets. Kelly tried to pscify
them by saying the boy had been up before but all hs
companions deny 1t. lie rising very rapidly when
last seen. and moving sdl rapidly to the northeast
NO oIe cen tell what his fate may be lie had not even
liked hmeelf properly on his scat but sitting the
eoge Of the hoop and leaning back up,n . rcpe If he
Gees not succeed in opening the valve to let himself
cold % to s out or he might be frozen to death by the
extreme cold il he succeeds in gettpg do yn safely
no ono knows how far 1t msy be from any human hab
tAtioD.
Several Of those prese Mt assert positively that the bow
Ie The rope 60 and that it blew up over the netting IL
this BE- true, there is little hope Of his escape alive
from the Alta California, Aug sol
SAFE RETURN OF TIE BOY AERONAuT.
loon from Oakland on Sunday afternoon and for whose
safe return there appeared little ground to hope arrived
last evening In tho boat safe except sprau
in his ankle lie landed in Suisun Valley 6ftesn miles
from BeDcia and five miles from any house He retain.
cd his presence Of mind throughout curing the hour and
half that he was in the air, 10 which time he travelled
about fifty miles
rsen slight dstar he became perfectly collected and
lepred back in easy position against the cords Here
he ta and Tor long toe heard the cries Of ths crowd
below arc the whole bay ard the country from San
Finnciaco to Sacramento.
The onIv unpleasant sensaton he felt cold in his
feet lie took OF shce end tied handkerchief about
ne loot and then took of the other shoe but dropped
DIS handf erche and had 10 put that shoe as 1t
NE wanted to como down after the balloon started
put tne rope broke but he was not decoscertsd NOR
fgntsned He knew very well whittier ths balloon vas
climb The ropes 70 cut ths bassa - hs wshsa This hs
knsw was his only hope aAA hs psessvsred until hs
cssdsd in sstns up to hs body o the balloon and cut.