The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-07-26

~ "H1 "nat ucPaituft, VIII De fruitful
themes for the artists pencil, and the
voyage, il successful, will supply an exten.
sive series Of Graphic illustrations, Of
"Life in the Clouds" exceeding in interest
everything Of the kind before produced
The steam presses of our enterprisinp
contemporary will have to be several times
duplicated and run night and day for
many weeks in order to supply the public
demand
The balloon is now being made in the
lofts of the Domestic Sewing Machine
Company, corner Broadway and l4th
street.
In a letter to the Graphic, Mr., Wise
says
The balloon proper will be spheroid
OF 100 feet transverse, and ITO perpen.
dicuhr and diameter. The supplemental
balloon will be spheroid Of SO feet diam
eter. These, with allowance for expansion
Of gas, will give us lifting power Of l5,.
9OO pounds, and net carrying power Of
1900 pounds, and Of disposable ballast,
1900 pounds. Our floats will not lose by
exosmose Of gas over 10 pounds per hour,
and that will enable us to keep aAoat 20
days, But allowing liberal margin for
the free escape of gas in the higher and
rarefied regions of the atmosphere, we may
still calculate safely for ten days buoyant
power; and, IL deemed necessary, we can
dispose of the boat and gallery, and thus
restore buoyant force of 200 pounds,
which would serve us for several days
more; so that, under the most adverse cir
cumstances, We can hardly fail to reach
the European shore.
"We shall carry boat more for the
purpose of providing for contingency
that may possibly arise, from any damage
to the main balloon, but one that we have
little cause to apprehend. The boat will
be stored with water and provisions to
serve for thirty days. Our kind friends
are thus assured that we are not foolhardy
seeing that we shall provide against all
and any contingencies that are likely to
possibly arise.
sour main reliance is on the great
eastward drift of the trade wind. We do
not pretend that, in this first experimental
voyage, we shall be able to make a given
point on land, but We have an eye to the
Gulf Stream, the great warm river in the
ocean, which forms above it, in the ocean
Of air, corresponding aerial river that
will float us to the coast Of Ireland"
The editors of the Graphic announce
that the balloon will have passenger room
for eight or ten persons, and the choice
few who wish to take part in the expedi-
tion may now call at the captains Office,
II Park Place, and purchase their tickets,
We recommend those who are tired Of
life, who have made their wills, who have
no one dependent upon them and whose
friends would be glad to be rid of them,
to prepare carpet bags and 60. The
chances Of their return to earth in a con
dition suitable for further usefulness, we
regard as extremely slim. When Mr..
Wise made his great voyage from ST.
Louis, he had twelve hundred miles OF
land to pass over, and descended before
reaching the sea. By starting from New
York, this long stretch of overland travel
will be saved, and in a very short time
after cutting the rope he will be waited
out over the trackless deep, provided he
seeks and gains the high easterly current
aiVresaia, m :,
!he paiioon |nich ne proposes VIII, we
Dei,eVe, De tne largest ever made. That That
o. M; uinard, used In London IN 1868
ior eieva.ing passengers at Asnbnrnham
rark, py means Oh rope ana reel, was 95
ieet IN diaiaeter' ana heid 4zo,ooo cubic
ieet Of hydrogen gas. IL was made Of
three thicSnesses OF linen, cemented with
rubber ana vanished win shellae: Cost
slV'ooo' ~ was capable OF hitting 20
persons besides the cable by which the
balloon was drawn down after every
ascent, steam power being used, The cable
weighed 4'aoV ios'' ana was z,loo feet IN
length
THE GREAT BALLOON VOYAGE OF 1859.
We will now give history of the great
voyage made by Mr.. Wise, in 1859, from
Missouri to New York, as published in our
paper ut that time:
From the Scientific American of Julv IG. $50.
aTbe yeteran aeronaut. Mr. John Wise
has long entertained the idea that suc.
cessful balloon VOYAGE across the Pacific
NAV be ACCOMPLISHED with n yery laroe
balloon. This question he has discussed
with much plausibility in his work ON the
subject published in 1850; and having dis.
covered. in his former aerial excursions. a
current of mir flowing to the east at n cor.
tain altitude he has been led to believe n
long voyage to the east could be success.
fuliy accommodated To test this idea a
person was found. in Mr.. eager of Yer.
mont who had the enterprise and ability
10 furnish the necessary funds for tbe
undertakino. and for this rurnose the
monster balloon Atlantic was bu;It bv Mr.
Ia Mountain AZ Iansinpbur0h n v,
and carried TO 81 Louis IN order 10 make
the experimental VOYAGE from that citv "a
this New York nyiop 10 maxine a Grand
atmospheric Journey across the ocean q
Europe We will now describe the results
of this attempt: