Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-25
A PROJECTED BALLOON RACE-THE
AERONAUTS TO STAkT FROM
CINCINNATI.

The day OF wonders will never cease. The lay.
ing of the Atlantic Gable was n feature of the age,
and the next on the list is a"Balloon Race!" Some
days ago Mons. Goddard, the well'known Aero.
naut, who has made several excursions from this
city, and who is now in Western New York, chal.
lenged Prof. j. ii. Steiner Of Philadelphia, to n
race with their small balloons. The conditions to
be observed were, that the two balloons were to he
inflated ut the same time and place, and with the
same quality of gas; that the one icing ready
first should wait for the other, and both start at
the same time that the trial should not be decid.
ed by the height attained, but the enc landing the
greatest distance from the starting point to be de.
clared the winner.
This challenge was put forth by Mr.. GODDARD, and
was especially intended for Prof. Steiner, who hap-
pened to be ballooning in the neighborhood, and
that gentleman promptly accepted it, with the
modification that instead of using their small bal.
looms, they should make the trial with large ones.
so that the race, instead of being for "a few miles
over the Continent" should be for as long a trip
az can be made lover land ind sea-" Another
condition made by Prof. Steiner il, that the race
shall take place some time during the month Of
October; and that Cincinnati shall be the stayting
point His reasons for this are the inland 10.
cality of our city, and the facilities offered by our
gas works for initiating.
The event will he one of the most exciting
which has transpired in the region Of our city in
q long time. Mr.Goddar6 has something of a rem
NN"''N w." " S"' "'t Nv oNp L " Ott1l-
er to be one Of the most intrepid Aeronauts that
ever made a trip to the clouds. We have sailed
with him ia his pride of the West" through the
misty atmos phere, over two miles above terra.
tirma-heard him tell stories, crack jokes, and
sing songs, away ''up ~yonder," long atIor objects
upon earth were undistinguishable; when the
Genesee River appeared like a rivulet, and the
Erie Canal looked like n crack in the sand. We
recollect how the daring young American Aeron.
aut. as We were driven toward Lake Ontario. two
miles above earth, proposed to venture a trip
toward the Queens dominious, just for the fun
Of the thing" and how We asked to be excused
from a water excursion on our first trip to the
> clouds. We bear in remembrance that FIRST
thump on the ground as We descended, the rusi,
through the corn feld, before the anchor eauph,
= in the roots Of a bush, the re bound fifty feet in
= /, the air, to the length Of the rope, and then down
again, a little more gently, yet hard enough to
: send a mans din0er beyond the action of the di
: gestiye organs
> With these things impressed upon our memory
and an abiding confidence in the scientific skin
! the courage and daring of Prof. Steiae,, ye
: shall look foe the proposed race with great inter
est. We trust that as early Il day as possible ma
g De named, in order that there may be 40 most
= ponement on account of the weather."-C ac;naat
= Gazette. p