The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-15

tally in later times, was joyous in the ex-
treme. All work was suspended; the tenn
pies were thrown open, and decorated with
flowers; the populace were clad in holiday
attire, and crowded the steps of all the
public buildings in the Via Sdcra, and
forum, or mounted the scaffolding erected
Tor the purpose of viewing the procession;
banquets were spread before every door.
THE cAPTIvEs TAKEN
in the war and the spoils taken from the
vanquished were marked features in the
triumphal march,"
THE ASTONISHING ASCENSION.
sup IN A BALLOON BoYs''-AIMosT A CALAMITY
TO CAUSE THE WORLD TO LIsTEN-THE RACE
DECLARED oFF-PRoGRAMME FOR THE BE-
GINNING OF THIS wEEK-UNDoUBTEDLY A
SUCCESS so FAR.
During the day yesterday the Exposition
was not so well attended as on the previous
day, but at night the people fairly swarmed
around the entrance and inside of an hour
over 800 tickets were sold at the two
entrances. AT all, during the day and
evening, there were in the neighborhood
of $500 tickets sold, which added
to the exhibitors and other "dead heads.
made an entire attendance of probably
| three thousand people. This amount is
| large indeed, when everything is taken into
, consideration, \ number Of improvements
we're made during the dav, but there are
several more spaces 10 be filled, which will
be done by Monday night. At o'clock
the judges rang the bell to call out the
horses in the unfinished 2:35 trot. 1t will be
| remembered that they trotted four heats on
Friday and after some quarreling it got so
dark that the race had to be postponed with
"Jim Fiske" and John B." each having
/ fxx-- dow rhnr, hall
Jim Fiske" did not put in an appearance.
The judges, after calling up the two other
drivers, said that owing to the owner OF
Jim Fisk" claiming the first money on Fri
day night, and his not putting in an appear
ance then, they woulo decide the race and
all bets of. This raised another hot dispute
among the friends of the horses. However,
the balloon was then being inflated for its
advertised flight to the clouds. The adver-
tisement had not stated how
EXCEEDINGLY DARING
would be the flight of the man who went
along with the balloon. Indeed had the al
most fatal result been known beforehand
there would have been no balloon ascen-
sion. As it was the unexpected dangerous
trip was one that those who witnessed it and
knew the full danger do not care to be spec
tators of such risky trip again.
The balloon is hot air one, and accordingly
a furnace, made of sheet iron, about five feet
i'm length, TIVE feet in diameter, and weigh
ing in the neighborhood of 400 pounds, is
placed underneath IL TO give it the amount
of air required. Yesterday the men who
were initiating it we're anxious to send the
dangerous air-ship as high as possible
The STAY ropes were held as long as posi-
ble to give it enough air to send it five miles
toward the heavens The daring man who
was to perform on the suspended trapeze
4. IL Al.
pulled from the top. The balloon has an
, aperture of ten feet in diameter, and from
J around this there are two small ropes
reaching TO each side of the three
, foot bar, on which the man performs
and which is the only thing he has to hold
TO, besides these ropes. When the balloon
f raised from the earth it so happened thai
, the furnace got caught on one of the ropes
, about halt way between the bar and tht
balloon, which was fifteen feet above the
3 bar. In moment the balloon had rost
to the height of sixty feet and a.
hanging from the bar by on
} hand, was seen to point down to the ground
and say something which could not be heard
ON IL wet with the almost red hot furnac,
! hanging above the man, Who was given NJ
for lost by all. 1t seemed but second be
fore he began to grow very small, ant
during that time he stcna mn on the bal
side endeavored to shake the unwelcomt
furnace from the other two. After severa
efforts he evidently gave up trying, anC
3 leaned against the ropes on the unencum
3 bered side, cody smoking cigar. On wen
, the balloon at a certain rate of mile every
two minutes, until the whole was but few
+. specks in the sky. The furnace looked lik,
black spot. perhaps as large as bushel
when it was seen to loose its place and
, DOWN 1T CAME
at fearful rate until it resumed its almos
3 natural size, and was heard to drop abou
three quarters of a mile from the fai
,, grounds. The danger was then more evi
2 dent than before, as the furnace had Ger
3 tainly burnt one of the ropes in two. ant
. perhaps had so badly damaged tn
other one that it would, probably, par
> it and leave the man TO hold on to nothin,
= but the two small ropes on the other side, a
; ; his footing would then give way. For
= moment the balloon seemed 10 stand still an,
i then it began to come down. The DARN,
man, trusting to the safety of one rope oil
: one side, began his evolutions. A
f he became palmer, he could still
!, do his daring acts on the trapeze. Finally
it came down about mile from the startin
place in an open lot, and shortly after b
!; was brought back to the grounds in
= buggy all safe and sound. A general ex
preston of relief was seen on every face a
he passed into the tent to change hrs trapez
clothing. A reporter of the Sentinel aske
+ him if he was much frightened when b
u saw his danger, and he replied mos
q cody as follows: 81 saw when / was abou
s ten feet from the ground the danger. dite
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