The Jennings daily record., 1902-07-10

"Some day." says Santos-Dumont,
1--WE shall see monarchs and Princes
of the blood having not only their Or
binary balloons, but aerial state
coaches"
Already Princes are turning to the
sport. One, the Archduke Leopold Sal
vator of Austria Hungary, recently
made a remarkable journey across the
Alps in his balloon, the Meteor. Not
content with making trips on his own
account in one or another of the three
large ballons which he had made, he
has commenced taking his wife and
children with him.
There are many members OF the
other reigning houses who have made
aerial trips, notably the King of 1taly's
two cousins, the Count of Turin and
the Duke Abruzzi. The Duke OF
Abruzzi, In particular. made num-
ber of ballooning trips before starting
on his arctic expedition with the OBJ
ject of ascertaining to what extent he
could utilize this mode of conveyance
in the polar regions. Apparently, he
was not satisfied with the practical re-
suits of his experiments, as he did not
take a balloon with him in the Polar
Star The widowed Duchess Of Aosta
and the young Duchess of Genoa.
while these trials We're in progress at
Turin, took advantage Of the oppor-
tunity to make several ascents, but
were ultimately forbidden to do so
again by the late King Eumbert. who
was alarmed for their safety, and in
sisted, in spite of all that was urged
to the contrary, that thfy were risk
ing their lives.
The Emperor of Germany and his
eldest sister, Princess Charlotte Of
xe-Meiningen. have both been up in
a balloon. 1t was, however, captive
one, and their ascent took place at
Paris during the International Expo
sition of 1873, when. it may be remem-
bered. the most gigantic balloon ever
produced used to ascend daily from
the Place des Tuileries to height so
great as to almost disappear from
sight, then to be drawn back to earth
by means of couple of powerful sta
tionary steam engines. The present
Kaiser was at the time in Paris in
cognito, intrusted to the care not Of
the German Ambassador, but of Lord
Lyons, the English Ambassador, as a
grandson of Queen Victoria, and the
party who made the ascent in the bal
loon on that occasion was restricted
to Prince William as the Kaiser was
then called: to his sister, Princess
Charlotte of Meiningen; the lat
ter's husband. Prince Bernhardt:
the Household to Empire Frederick;
and two or three others.
King Edward, Queen Alexandria, the
late Duke of Albany. the Duke of
Brunswick and of Cumberland, who at
that time bore the title OF Crown
Prince of Hanover, and likewise the
late Prince jerome Napolen all made
one or more ascents in this balloon.
as did also old Queen Isabella of
Spain, the Crown Prince and Crown
Princess of Denmark. the King and
Queen of Greece. and, of course. King
Leopold of Belgium. Prince Frederick
Leopold of Prussia has been up sew
eral times in the military balloon on
the Temple Hof maneuver grounds.
near Belgium. But when the Kaiser
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brother-inlaw his ministerial and mil
itary advisers urged him to abstain
from putting his project into execu-
tion on the ground that he had 10
right to risk a life of such vital im-
portance to the empire. The Emperor
only yielded to their arguments when
they were reinforced by the Empress,
for he shares the conviction of Arch
duke Leopold Salvador of Austria that
there is no more danger in ballooning
than in driving at the breakneck speed
which he invariably affects.