Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-10-08
Mr.. Lowe, alias Carlincourt, Maker of
the Mammoth Balloon.
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The Troy Times, in the article which W,
publish below, among other things, state,
that the Professor G. Lowe, who is building
q mammoth balloon at Jersey Cityto cross thu
Atlantic ocean next month, is none other thar
Prot. Carlincourt, who has made Utica hi,
home for some months past. In Harper.
Weekly of last week, is picture Of Professor
Lowe, which proves to be, says the Utica OBJ
server, very good representation of Carlin-
court. The Weekly calls him Prof. Carlin-
court Lowe,
g The person who is building in Jersey CITY
the mammoth balloon, with which he declares
il to be his intention to cross the Atlantic
ocean next month"; is the same one who, under
the name of Carmcour, made two ascensons
last summer from Utica. lie first essays as
an aeronallt were in San Francisco, California
There he passed by the name under which lie
was born, that of Wilson. The first time he
made an experiment the gas company did not
furnish him power enough To elevate his bal
loon. On the second essay, by some means
an appe-peddling boy who was in the basket
was sent up instead OF the balloonist, and
made a safe landing after a rather hazariou.
trip. Mr. Wilson afterwards undertook to
ascend with rariipd air from Sacramento and
neither place getting more than a few hundred
feet high, and coming down again very
speedily. Afterwards Mr.. WilSonappcared III
the capacity of II public lecturer, urging a
scheme for travelling from California to tho
Atlantic States across the Rocky Mountains
an enterprise which he never reduced to prac
teal realization. Last year, soon after the
disaster TO the ill-fated Thruston Mr.. Wilson
made an ascension from st. Louis with bal
loon belonging to Mr. Brooks and filled fol
him by that gentleman. After travelling a
few miles, he descended near farm-h house,
the occupants Of which he amused by letting
them up for short distances, holding on to the
anchor rope. While two children Of the far
rner were being sent up, by some accident the
rope was cast of upon flight through the
air. The balloon assembled untila ratification
and expansion of gas caused its discharge,
when its own specific gravity caused it to de-
scend. Most miraculousy, both children re-
NAMED in the basket until help arrived, escap-
ed all injury, and were returned the next day
to their agonized parents. The ascensions
made by Mr. Wilson, or Carlncourt, from
Utica, were both very fine, though in that city
he lost credit by promising to ride to the
clouds on horseback, and then ascending in
the usual manner and without any such ex-
traordinary display. On the 18th of July, this
teronaut made very successful ascension from
Portland, Maine, and landed without any ac-
cident very near the sea coast. Since then
we have heard nothing of him, save in state
ment that he was engaged in scheme for
crossing the ocean in opposition to that of La
Mountain, until il was announced that he had
secretly constructed the mammoth balloon in
New jersey, and has all his plans completed
for essaying the trip over the Atlantic, and
will start early in October.