The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-03-18

used to read about ballooniDg and the stories
of the men who had invented parachutes that
were failures and had lost their lives by jump
ing from high buildings and balloons, believing
that their paraciutes would lower them gently
and safely to mother earth.
Young Tom noticed that all these parachute5
were made like umbrellas with stiff ribs and a
stiff. straight handle. He also read that while
these crude parachutes for a short distance per-
formed their purpose and lowered their human
freight gently toward the earth. they tipped
over before reaching it and dashed the unfor-
tunate inventor to the ground.
Yousg Baldwin figured and figured, and
finally made up his mind that the reason these
crude parachutes tipped over was not because
the air failed to support them, but because too
solid column of air was formed beneath them,
causing them to come TO stand-still and dodge
sidewise in the effort TO obey the law of grav-
taton. With this theory in mind. young Bald
win invented a parachute made of canvas, like
an ordinary sail, but umbrclla-shaped and with
hole at the apex, permitting the column of
air to escape and the parachute TO descend
gently but steadily. With this new-fangled
parachute Baldwin went TO San Francisco,
made an ascent Ill a balloon at Golden Gate
and dropped with this parachute and landed
safely in the Bay.
Since that day parachute leaping has become
recognized vocation. There is hardly
country fair at which there isn't balloon as
cension and a parachute leaper. A pupil of
Baldwins, named Forsman, has this TO say
about the dangers Of parachuting:
Rightly conducted aud with proper pre-
cautions, there is much less risk in parachute
leap than the observer would suppose. The
accidents that occur are almost without excep-
ton due to carelessness or absolute recklessnes5
on the part of the aeronaus and his assistants
For instance. through utter neglect the para
chute is permitted to get into unsafe con-
.ny1-n
proximity to large body of water, without
wearing a life-preserver. The consequence is
that a cross current of wind in the upper at
mosphere carries him out over the water, and
when he drops he is drowned before assistance
can reach him. The greatest danger, however
that confronts the parachute leaper, he daily
meets in order to save little trouble. 1t is
this way: inflated balloon of normal con.
struction will, after the aeronaut has cut his
parachute loose. travel miles out into the
country before it finally turns over and falls to
the ground. This would necessitate long
trip in a wagon out into the country to find the
balloon and haul it back. That means time,
trouble and money. To avoid this, the top of
the balloon is weighted so that q moment or
two after the parachute is cut loose and drops,
the balloon turns oeer and comes falling down
after it, balloon weighs a good many pounds.
If it misses the parachute, all right; if it hits
the parachute, that's the end of the parachute
leaper. This is the greatest danger in para
chute leaping, and it is one that parachute
leapers daily court with an icy nerve that is
astounding"
1t isn't alone in parachute leaping that men,
in order to save a little time money and trouble
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enterprise of dropping from above the clouds
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tens of thousands of men daily court death with
I'll A. Ii. r
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grow into big. death-dealing diseases. When
they recognize that dangerous disease con-
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remedy. The parachute leaper over weights
the balloon and it brushes him. The average
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