Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-11-05

/ am very sorry 10 say that CoJlcy has
I riggCd Up that balloon Of his again and
/ began a series of fresh explorations of the
atmosphere for the purpose of discovering
| the ozone belt. lie has discontinued the
Use Of sand bags for ballast, preferriug to
| depend upon a drag rope AMI grapnel for
regulating his ascent and descent, iust n
Donaldson did. The first time he went M
he passed, Is usual, directly over my gar
den, and. Is the grapnel caught IN the grape
arbor, in two OF three minutes that orna-
meata! trellls work was passing through
/ the ozone belt at the rate OtG mile minute
| W ben Cooley cut it loose it fell on the Pres
byterlan church steeplc, where it remains in
most absurd position, nobody being able to
remove it. The deacoHs talk Of suing ne
for damages because | would not take away
my property and | must say that this
seems to me to be = little hard.
Cooley went up on the following Thurs
day to make further examination Of the
ozone belt, but this time he swept over the
roof of my house, and the only damage done
was that lie ripped of my trap door and
then the grapnel caught in my chimney in
such way that it was torn u pieces, ono
Of the bricks falling upon Judge Pitmans
the balloon. Perhaps | shall be asked To
pay for the death OF that dog, too. | saw
Pitman talking with a lawyer yesterday,
and looking as if lie was discussing the law
upon the dead dogs. | shall fight the case
clear through the Supreme Court Of the
United States, if necessary. That voyage of
Coo,ey's was 50 unsatisfactory to him that
he went up again two days later, and this
time the balloon sailed due east The drag
rope again swooped through my place, tear
ing up my dwarf pear tree, breaking eighty
feet Of clothes line, ripping four sheets and
pair oil drawers to rags, removing the roof /
from my stable, and frightening my horse
50 that ne kicked eight boards out Of the |
stall, di-located his of hind leg, and fell |
over on my irishman, breaking two Of his /
ribs. lie can't sue me, at any rate for
while. for he is in the hospital but am /
getting up case against Cooley and | |
think | can win 1t when | tell the Jury of |
his conduct on the subsequent day, when he .
went up to make chemical tests on ozone.
The wind was blowing furiously, and be
fore he was ready to 20 the balloon dashed |
off, over my way Of course, and the grapnsl
caught in the hoops of my hired girl She
was in the garden. 1t seemed at first when
she shot up that she would probably con
tinue on upward until she struck Saturn or
Venus or the Milky Way, but when she
asccnded until she must have had superb
view Of Buenos Ayres and Iceland, the bal
loon began to descend, and finally the girl
got loose somehow. and fell into the top ola
big chimney at the carwheel works, where
She stuck. Ii cost eight-hundred dollars 10
get that hired girl down, and she left us
that very night. ! now have an injunction
on the balloon, and will keep it there if
have to sit on it and hold it. | want to
have Information collected about the ozone
belt. know the human race will be hap
pier when we have it, but ] am not going to
permit myself to be offered up as victim
on the altar of ozone. am suffering from
too n4ca science.-Nor AGeler.