Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30
THE BALLOON yEyTrpr
The Story Of the Signal Service o-
 Accompanied K.ng on Els Fs,-e.F.' sF'.a''r .'.'r n,

AHe story or the Signal Ss-y;,.
 Accompanied K-ng on Els sFearf3, F',-.'' v.-l 'l, CHIPPEWA FAILS. W;sc,,..;- | 1.-The vOyagers who +olI' --' Cet0ts,
 thght last Thursday fror, a..i. s-sl Lash
 ieel no such disposition to-.I-,. -I,..a,os
 should see us now, drayred ye soaked and exposed, and o7,-.- '.''l, El.s-
 what wonderful thipcs .te.. ppeil,ss~
 a.,S ~oIiu .-l, surely say We loved eivijiz-.
 and more especially the good tsIi--at t.iI'i-at9o
 lore hVe minutes after Ie-r;,-.'-.s. E.
 nrma we reached an alti-ura iea
 teet, moving southwest. A f.-. V. 4ia
 later we reached an upper cr--..'..- .-'..-l1iss
 mg slowly westward, SD slori,7- lljG I-l5.
 barely moyed-but what a 7...It .aat ss
 meath us. Chicago. wbicl, .. ii,eet ls-
 barely endurable Co p.v,. .l -' oes' s now thing of beauty. but r... .te', "a en5fi eDd hod ioT ., ~e were soon shut og, b,;:
 NYRIADs OF LuHr. Iwlnkllng in the distarc. ,- named there suspended. r...- 'e -s nor falling, for several Lours f'.-. ,s1s a pun of ar sent us Soutbyss, 2s, Ing before morning Co west .~5 ,-a-,. west While going sOutLvas+ -.'-- manned becalmed about II -s, 's swlnglng m circle oyer <. sr,.- ,S that, from Its location, jud.-4 --t- ''- ,-.y orla, Illinois. After gettiru. r5-', ls ts. earthly stars We turned in tf 'i te "cat maps" At 5:I5 d. m I@' 'oS passed over Spring Valley V-. ss startling the natives by ir ,.'.-'i, drag ropes over their roofs, a1I 1-, ,l' bilious fellow, probably -- rt;-. ti-. aa- were old Nick with Lis le.i.~ -e -e -e shot after us. After this We rs.szs ..-. - mounds are 12Sl feet abo.s r......i,. of various cOlOrs and faute -... s.''r- which, with the bright colon. .rI I'-A rounding foliage, give a pi.-r.-s.-.''. s-' to the surface unequalIeg I......, ,s but most vivid Imagiuati.r T loon circulated among these rar-r "a though drawn by an inspired f.-rs one particularly, as if 10th tl r--. --- -' us, Kept us just Une-Lalf an L.r- r ing this circular attendance. M compelled at last tD use uur b.r-.. escape this apparent att-a.-.r, course, 1t was nothing but .--.--.. cold ar circulating iu the vall.,. -i 1t was necessary to he above |. ..,- As though dissatisfied with her L,- tlon, and wishing Co give us a Lezvs-- z view, our balloon took an upwa-I .-- carrying us 4COO feeJ above tfe ..,.- clouds, literally buryin- us m -isa' an hour. In passing Little F... V.- roe county, Wisconsin. We ca-.. ... -- the ground that We came in c0u-..- 7.. the trees, and were compelled t1 -.g--
 LARGE PORTION OF ONE As a souvenir. When We rea-si a. ground we were greeted vith tbs ar.- nation of the verdant iu every vs--- of forms. Children were lu,ief 5 E were called of, horses whipped mn .'i country matrOns stood iu tlfl- i--- with arms akimbO and in tLt u.,--. r. prising and cOmical attitudes ffv-L5 r. had an artist along, he couIu have -lss, # hIs fortune out of their figures lts a. m- we passed over Putt.u. OF ,.-, similar named place, but. ben, ID n hurry. we could not accept theus-, l. tO descend. At s,tuamv passed over TOmah. At g.Iu We g-o,. E among the clouds, and lost sicl, Q F Mother Earth for a few hou-s. Them carried us at a rau.i -- probably forty or fifty uiias per h.-- and, not being able tO discern ,t.tr.- objects, could not tell where We ve-. what course We were pursuing. Men. while the rain poured in torrents. e. # lecting on the outside of the haLur.- poured down the month Of the ba-r. the basket in a steady stream. coupe.-. Mir. Hashogan, the Signal S,v, t. server, to put away his instrument H 1t was useless, as there wasuot a dry r-. E. head among them. At l2.tj p.ut highest known elevation was rsat. Deng 9,6OO feet. From the last p,-y, spoken we found we were forty ma from St. Paul, and we desceudei t.a p. ID. on the west bank of the riyel os half mile inland, and concluded tLs u were in the State of Minnesota, pro.s 'orty miles north of St. Paul, 9l G river. With this supposrl n mind We stepped out of oar car no lbOut eighteen inches of ice vate-. al Ound we were in a cranherry haE U lad to get out. To recite.
 OUR EXPERIENCE After that for the succeeding five is7 ID to our knees through boggy swan. without food, except a half-pu, O. br -ies; how the wolves and bears scsl.s lround us at night; how we s.,p, 1l ground at night through heavy fua )nly to start again in the uou- through the swamps, with Irs ice var and falling over muddy logs at e7s step, how, as the last resort, We uult 1- raft, expecting to go over at St. A1, ly's falls, our subsequent lsapp nent and tramp with blisterad fec, torn shoes. But oh, our joy when at i- o'clock on the evening Of the fitl we reached Flambeau river, sal ve -owed across by Cleromen Bertrand Miner, woodmen, mi he are. enjoying the good things bei-sl