Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-07-19
BALLOON WARFARE.
PROFESSOR MYERS SAYS NEW YORK
COULD De ATTACKED FROM ABOVE.

a.. Recall. the "trip made by the
Woman Aorouaut. Cariotta, In 1888
Gunner. Could Not nit the balloons
European Countries Experimenting.
"Certain European powers arc pos
tessod Of powerful nirships so perfect
and complete that In the event Of war
with tho United States thoy could b.
sailed over New York Or any Of the cities
near the soaboard and no power on
earth could serve to check them before
they had completely annihilatcd the
cities attacked
Tho above paragraph IN Chicago
newspaper extracted from n longer d.
torview reported with mo, Is going the
rounds OF tho pross, accompanied with
many douhting criticisms.
Independent Of professional secrets, u
which there are many among aerouuuia.
there cxis,a evidence that the dangers
referred 90 ufc very real. To mako this
plain ! may recall the trip made IN II
hydrogen gas balloon by tho woman
aoronaui. Carlottl. M July, ls5S, when
aho followed prescribed aud devious
route across Brooklyn, Now York and
Jersey City. using variety OF wind cur
rents simply BY noting thuir elevations
and floating ON ono or another ut will
Ly the usual method Of dispensing gas
or ballast
Tho route was from Washington Park
baseball grounds, Brooklyn, over tho
city hall, down TO tho Battery or Castle
Garden; thence up tho East river past
tho Brooklyn bridge; then at right
angles across New York and TO tho Dca-
brosscs Street foTyi thence diag0nilly
down and across the North river 10 Tho
Pennsylvania Railroad depot, and thonc3
up tho whole length Of JoFtcy City TO
Sccnucus. Hundreds Of thousands Of
people in these three great cities wit
messed this flight, as the hour was boz
tween and p, M, whom tho cities
workors were going home.
A swift return current high up ma
Il possible for the wind navigator TO
turn In about ten minutes, a speed
test was made at the same time Of tho
resources Of civilization for rapid tran
sit below by boat, ear, carriage and clo-
waited road. To travel tho same distance
In this way required ninushanges and
two hours time.
Now assume that Carlotta's ballast
east out along tho route h consisted
Of inhammable compounds and dostruct-
i've explosives not dynamite. but somo-
thing dcadlior, which cannot DO fired
from q cannon. and one need only trace
on the map the course noted 10 realize
that u broad swath Of carnage and flame
would have moro than taxed all tho ro-
sources Of these three cities-ita finest
police, its ambulances aud hospitals and
its magnificent. fro departments
SO much fortho work of mn old fash
Toned gas balloon In the hands Of n skill.
full air navigator. A u matter Of ordi-
nary professional business | am ready
10 contract to duplicate this exhibition.
Recent tests by foreign powers with
modern artillery, firing ut balloon tar
gets under favorable conditions (not OBJ
tainnblo In actual balloon wariarcl, In.
dictate that little Is to be feared by tho
aeronaut. Tho mark itself is relatively
small when distant.
Let any investigating mnrksmnn try
his riflo Oh u toy balloon at moderate
riilo range, and thon remember how
much easier of manipulation Is this arm
compared with cannon.
How many Of tho cannon protecting
New York arc adapted to elevations al.
most overhead What would DO The
results OF cannon balls or shells return
ing ON tho city after projection upward
On tho other hand, 1t is quite easy tC
slide tho most dangerous missiles broad
cast or ON u slant, with guiding planes
IN any direction from tho airship.
The aeronautic services VI foreign na
lions possess captive balloons for recon
noissancp or complete observation o
everything Ia sight, from above, over M
immense nrea; signaling. includina. tli,
tr,nswission az .inhor ,,.ssa,,as -
,,s,an,es Ia, oia,,,i,,I al, ~ -,
~ - 80 'H' WIZ
t'o -nolsv eouo VI 'oHg anu snort nishe
or any ouhef, ana search lights indioat
ing the position OF nm enemy ut nigh
without revealing the position OF IN,
vessel, fort or point to which tho bal
loon Ia anchored
Tho vain, az ,Lo.a ,il. 90 ,,o1..,
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w,i4.iV Va" iy'u''y " aPp',Via'oH
What tho position OF tue United state
IN this natter England, France, Spain
Portugal, Germany Holland, Belgium
Russia, Italy, China and less iinportan
nations arc well supplied with yaluahl
aeronautical upparatus. echools of ur,,r
tico atr mud many have cors,rrr,io
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