Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-08-04

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nsde tins remark IN Mr.. Fred Bur.
srtt . srsseiirg SoquAintsnce. - the can
vese soaring Toledo. He had told me
shas he vss professional aeronaut. HI.
ascensioas. however, were mot made fII
scienti6c purposes. but A. Q means OF
livelihood. For them he received five
hundred dollars. and sometimes q thou.
sand dollars q trip.
"Yes, an odd and dangerous one" he
replied.
mo doubt, especially when a balloon
takes fire in the sir, or colIapses. But, y
] asked, with judicious management and
in favorable weather, is the peril really
q great as most people think 1t isf"
"Every whitv exclaimed the seronaut.
IL am never in the air An hour that I am
not made fully aware, in some way, that
my life is staked, and staked, too, against
heavy odds. But the part of the venture
which I always dread is the coming down,
not the going up; especially coming to
earth in q gale of wind, or even in stiff
breeze.
"You see, too, that am not like sci
enlist l must leave the ground on ad-
vertised time. When I make an engage
ment on Fourth of July, or with some
mensgerie, I must leave ut the hour an
nounced, whether the aspect of the sky is
favorable or not. It won't do to disap-
point spectators after they have paid
money to satisfy their curiosity. A crowd
Of people Of that sort has neither soul nor
reason. They expect you to make the
flight and will boot and sometimes use
violence if ii is not made.
II shall never forget an ascension l
made from Detroit. I was hired for
'Vance's Great Circus and Caravan 1t
was the Esd of August. Twas to be paid
five hundred dollars for the ascent.
II had with me young fellow named
Ned Estes. Poor Nedi We came to De-
troit the evening before with the balloon,
the Gypsy Queen, gay little air bubble
of about nineteen thousand cubic feet
capacity.
ut was bright morning, and we took
the Gypsy to the grounds early. A va
cant space had been encircled by rope
for ne, and hose connected with the gas
pipe of some sort Of factory about q
hundred yards away. We began to in
fate the balloon with coal gas. Common
burning gas is used in moot of the large
towns for this purpose. Pure hydrogen
gas is much more expensive and difficult
to manufacture, and the coal gas answers
almost az we'll, though the odor is not
agreeable.
ut was past eleven o'clock when We
ceased to initiate the balloon. Then we
allowed her to ascend about thirty feet,
and there held her to the ground by cords.
This was done for an advertisement, to
draw crowd. And there ,oas q crowd.
I think not less than five thousand per-
sons " ere in that circus. The performance
lasted until nearly five o'clock in the af-
ternoon, and then the people came
streaming out and surrounded the Gypsy.
"Mcantime the weather had changed.
I never saw . more ominous sky. The
scuds had begun to fly in the south, and
every five or ten minutes there would
come one Of those dreary signs of wind
which to an seronaut's ear, are q signif-
cant as signal guns.
Fired, said Ned to me as We were
hauling the balloon down, 20 that We
could get into the car, what do you
think the public hog would say if We
were to let out the ga. and postpone this
thin9f
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might be done A coat Of tar end fcafh-
sss, and . genesSi dissribution Of the
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