Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-09-26
NOWFO r RAIN.
The Grand Trial Final TO be Made
Today.
lei Paso Times. Sept. III

LEI 4lHlros sept, IL.
The skirmish preliminary to the grand
battle today took place yesterday &C.
cording to programme, except that
owing TO leakage OF gas MIR. Ellis was
unable to start on his aerial journey
until o'clock in the afternoon, when
his mammoth balloon rose from the
ground like some huge thing OF life
and sailed gracefully and majsstlcly
toward the skies. The ascension was
perfect-it was indeed one of the finest
ever seen in this country. The balloon
scared up, up, on almost straight line
for fully one and a half miles. Thou
sands of eyes watched the air ship as 1t
sailed gracefully drought the air. Mr..
Ellie had good supply of sand ballast
on board and whenever the balloon
halted in its upward career he would
start it again by throwing cut few
pounds of sand.
When the balloon reached good
distance the work Of sending off explo-
sions on the ground was commenced
and kept up at short intervals for some
time.
Mr.. Peget, who went out on horse
back to see Mr.. Ellis and his balloon
alight, returned to the city and report
ed that the balloon had gone down in
the mountains thirteen miles north of
the city. Mr.. Paget notified Major
Hinton, in command at Fort Bliss,
that he feared Mr.. Ellis was injured
and lost in the mountains, So Lieu
tenant Normoyie was promptly dis
patched in command Of a relief corps
from the fort to rescue the @issing
aeronaut. l.. @. Chriss accompanied
the expedition as guide. But all Of this
trouble and excitement proved to be
useless, as MIR. Ellis balloon had
alighted nicely only six miles from the
city, and the relief corps met him, Mr..
Jennings and another gentleman who
had gone out after the balloon, on their
way home. No trouble WAS experienced
by MIR. jennings, who,was on horseback,
in finding and reaching Mr.. Ellis but
the other party was in buggy and
being unacquainted with the trail he
got his buggy into a close place and
could not extricate it. This was the cause
OF the party's delay in returning to the
city.
Mr.. Ellis was seen by Times repre-
sentative at the Grand Central after lis
return home last night. He says that
when he left the ground in the arroyo
his thermometer registered "a and that
at the highest altitude he reached, the
register was SO, ard that he was then
very near the clouds. Mr.. Ellis also
states that each conclusion Of the at
mosphere caused by the explosions on
the ground, shook his balloon vigor-
ously.
Today as announced in yesterdays
Times the grand final test will be made
and the rainmakers feel confident they
will secure a good shower, but still
they want the public to remember that
it is possible to make failure. The
bonn bardment will not commence in earn
est until 10 or 1870 o'clock and even
then it will not be as heavy as in the
evening, when the assault upon the
clouds will be terrific.
The gentlemen composing General
Dyrenforth's expedition are all young
men of culture and possessed OF those
qualities which always make the true
gentleman an interesting Conversations
list and a most pleasing companion.
Mr.. John L. Ellis, who is in charge Of
the expedition and Messrs. n. 4. Jen-
nings, G. E. easier, Paul Draper and
Carl Myers. the other members of the
expedition have made many friends in
FL Paso, who will regret to gee them
leave next week.