Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-04
NEW BALLOON IDEAS.
TWIN SYSTEM SCHEME TO MAKE
 LONG VOYAGES FEASIBLE.

Hydrogen and Hot Air Balloons to Work
 In Tandem-Hot Air to Raise and Lower
 the Outfit and Thus Keep Hydrogen In.
 tact For Carrying Purposes.
 M. Sayine, a Russian living in Paris, who is at once scientist and maker of pictures for illustrated newspapers has invented balloon of novel design with which he hopes to accomplish some remarkable things, the first of which is q voyage from New York to Europe, and the second--starting with the warm weather next year-a journey to the pole. To arrange for the first mentioned voyage an agent has been appointed i'll M. Kroll of New York city.
 So far as lifting power is concerned there is nothing novel in M. Savine's invention. He utilizes the hydrogen gas bag commonly in use among baIloonists, with the usual basket below it. This gas bag is of 5000 cubic meters capaci- ty, and the basket will hold two men. No ballast of any kind is carried in this basket, save such supplies of food and drink as would be needed in long yoy- ages It is ill the substitute for ballast that M. Savine has developed 8 novelty. At the end of cable, 40 meters long, hanging below the basket, is suspended a second balloon of 1000 cubic meters capacity, with stout metal car att taohed that will carry two men, 300 kill ograms of petroleum, and an apparatus for burning the oil, and by it's combus- tion to heat air for inflating this lower balloon.
 The operation of the whole outfit, as described by M. Kroll, is easily under stood On infating the upper gas bag with hydrogen the lifting power ob- tained will be sufficient to carry up the entire outfit to moderate height-pos- sibly high enough to reach steady current of air flowing in the direction in which it is desired to travel.
 In this case 1t will be necessary, ac- eording to M. Kroll, merely to let the balloon travel. In case, however, the hydrogen balloon does not raise the out fit to the desired altitude, the crew of the lower balloon will fire up their ap- paratus and infiate the lower balloon. Naturally this will gradually relieve the upper balloon of the weight suspended below it, and so the whole concern will continue to rise until the sought for cur rent is reached. Then the fire in the lower balloon will be turned down, or entirely off, as may be needed to hold the balloon at its proper altitude.
 Eventually, of course, the hot air will cool off bit and the upper balloon will be unable to- maintain the altitude. Then, too, the favoring current of air may cease to flow or may change its course. In such cases as these it will be necessary to again fire up the apparatus for initiating the hot air balloon and so keep the balloons in the old current or lift them to higher level in search of a new current. In case they get too high weight can easily be added to the load on the upper balloon by defiating the lower one, and so the hydrogen gas can be kept intact and the balloons be sunk or raised, as the balloonists may choose.
 M. Kroll's description of the appara- tus for heating the air was not detailed but he said in general that the petrole- um would be carried in rubber bags and fed by pipes to system of 400 burners or jets, set like gas burners in a Yankee butter cake baker, the flames being six eentimeters long and the area of the ar rangement of burners one square meter Above this heating surface metal cone would capture the hot air and conduct it into the bag above. The system pro- vides for carrying 300 kilograms of pe- troleum, and it is calculated that this would entirely fill the lower bag 60 times. M Savine thinks this will be ample for all alterations in ballast dur ing the time needed for even voyage to the pole and back. M. Kroll says that experiments have been made with the mir heater in the presence of many balloon experts i'll Paris, and that 25 minutes was the average time required to fill the bag holding 1000 cubic me- ters.
 The date for starting for the pole is fixed for day next June. and the start ing point is to be Spitzbergen island. The time for sailing from New York for Paris will be fixed whenever any New York capitalist is sufficiently interested in such doings to contribute matter of $8, 900 or $l0, GOO for preliminary ex- penses. New York Sun.
 Victor Maurel on American Women.
 Victor Maurel, the baritone, has written i'll France his opinion of Amer ican women. In the main he is just and generous, and of course polite. But he points out one peculiarity of our so- ciety that nobody but Frenchman would ever think of He says that when French girl gets married she achieves her freedom; when the American girl gets married, she has already exhausted it. Is this an apothegm, fact or hor- | rible imputation? One might almost