St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-10
WEATHER OF A SKY PARTY:
r. f. Lyons, Forecast Official, q. S.
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Weather Service.
Unless | am very much mistaken.
it will be but short time before
man can ''f1y as a bird to the noun
tainS," or even to Chicago. Surely we
have much more practical and
scientific basis for that belief now
than there was a few years ago for
the present achievements in the way
of electric lighting and transporta-
ton. Not so very long ago there
was held in this city a meeting of
the American Academy of Science.
at which, as a curious toy, was ex-
hibited a small electric railway.
Grave predictions were then made
that within half a century, perhaps,
the feeble power might become avail
able for practical purposes-a result
so soon afterwards accomplished
that it is already an old story.
When science has perfected the
storage battery, thus securing great
power with little weight, aerial nav
igation is at once assured.
Weather conditions under this new
form Of travel will not prove I'M
favorable. On the contrary, travel
ing by air ought in every way to
be more wholesome and agreeable
than travelling by land. In the win
ter it is easy to keep out the exter-
nal cold, and therefore little COM
plant of the weather is made by
the traveller except during the heated
months. Here the air voyager would
experience decided advantage. By
simply rising a few thousand feet
he would emerge from the con-
denSed, reflected heat of the earth
surface into the rarefied, cool and
bracing atmosphere of the upper re-
gions. Certainly such a change
ought not to be made with excessive
abruptness, nor could extreme alti-
tudes be attempted without discom-
fort or danger to the man of feeble
heart or unusual adipose. Within
these restrictions, however, travel
ing during the summer months would
become an invigorating, refreshing
change from the discomforts of life
upon the Superheated land below.
Who can fOresee the enterprising eX-
cursiOns of the air-riding future?
The Sunday jaunts from the parched,
perspiring earth to 5000 or 5000
foot levels? What unending Vari-
cites of picnfcs would be provided
in every mountain district, where
the snowiest peaks. the remotest pin
nacles, would at once become more
accessible than are now even the
Right or Mount Washington?
1t is sometimes suggested that
aerial navigation would place one
in constant terror from the fear of
storms-of tornadoes and cyclones
AS a matter of fact, the observer
above the surface commands such
an uninterrupted view of prevailing
meteorological conditions that all
storms could be located and foreseen
in ample time to effect a safe re-
treat to the earth. The cyclones
with which we are famiIiar-tor-
nadoes, to speak scientifically-form
themselves slowly, and proceed in
a definite direction. 1t would thus
rarely be difficult to avoid them en-
tirely.
Upon the whole, the aerial traveller
would enjoy cooler, purer air than
his understanding brother; and
that, together with the freedom from
dust, smoke and excessive vibration.
should render an aerial trip as es-
sential feature of the future honey
moon as ''going-away gown" and
big check from papa"