The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-08-20
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disappointed crowd that gathered in
kimbali Saturday could not have been
present Tuesday evening. or, better still,
that the same atmospheric conditions
that prevailed Tuesday afternoon could
not have favored us Saturday,
Piof. Ward was advertised to make a
balloon ascension and rain experiment"
Saturday and the announcement in The
GRAPHIC the week before served to so
thoroughly advertise the event that
people came from twenty miles eWay.
TIE town was full Of visitors. A large
number came up from Chamberlain and
with them goodly sprinkling of Puk-
wana people. In hopes that the brisk
breeze that prevailed from the southeast
would subside by sundown, the passen-
ger train was kindly held unit! $3.50.
But there was no let-"p to the torment
ing wind, and they, with the rest of the
visitors gathered up their rubber wraps.
umbrellas and other moisture proof
belongings and departed. 1t was too
blamed bad. When one gets up a show
Especially free show,-one wants
others to enjoy it. That is the way KIM
ball felt exactly.
Tuesday ofternoon the wind for the
first time for nearly a week gradually
subsidized. at four O'clock Prof. Ward be-
gan preparations for the ascent. He so
nicely timed the arrangements that
everything was in readiness to "let 'er
go" as the evening passenger train pull
led into the yards and stopped at|the
station. The ascent was made from the
depot grounds and The train hands aud
passengers all alighted to witness tile
novel sight. The professors parachute
was attached to the bottom of the balloon,
and as on other similar ascensions made
here, he made the ascent clinging to a
| trapeze bar swung from the parachute.
Fastened to the trapeze bar he had a
small red parachute about the size of an
umbrella, and TO a ring hanging from it
was tied "fopsy" ochsner, little pug
dog. The dynamite cartridges were sus-
pended from the bottom of the balloon.
| By an accident they were touched of
prematurelY and began to eNploie before
the balloon was hundred feet high. The
balloon went off to the northeast, 1t was
not we'll inflated and went up less than
thousand feet high. As soon as it had
reached its greatest height the professor
released the miniature parachute and the
little png started toward terra fermg
like a!shot. The parachute opened like q
flash after dropping less than fifty feet
and the little dog dropped down as pretty
as you please, alighting ,lnhurt on g
line with Main street few hundred
feet north of the track. After being re,
leased he trotted back to town as uncon
cernei us though he had not been nearel
dog heaven than lie will in in al! iikeli
hood ever get again. LII q few moments
after starting the pug earthward the
professor released Lis own parachute ant
and landed safely little farther away
Tho balloon shot skvward after being
reiieFea from It's passengers, let OFT 8
couple OF more dynamite cartridges, col
lapsed and came down, and the show
was over.
! For some reason or other the balloon
was pretty we'll used up, either from tht
explosion of the dynamite or SPARKS
catching il it. Great holes were burnet
in it and Prof. Ward cut loose from it
much sooner than lie intended.
Did it rain? or course it did-n OF
As balloon ascension it was yer,
nice success. but as rain experiment i
was in the very nature OF things bount
to be failure, like all similar ones, and
| for this reason there was no disarpoint
ment over the result.
The Kmbali business men paid thu
professor $50 for the show and they re-
grct that the country people, for who's
benefit chiefly the thing was arranged
could not have seen it.