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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-07-30

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
LEBAU]Y'S AIR SHIPS
Another Has Been Carried
Away by the Wind.
NOT BADLY DAMAGED
IT WILL SOON BE CARRYING PAS
sENGERS AGAIN.
Two Brothers Who Have Done Much
for the Cause of
Aeronautics.
NOT BADLY DAMAGED
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS. September II, 1904
Another Lebaudy airship has been carried
away by the wind.
Many things are summed up in TINS
simple announcement. Airship activity IN
Paris continues and it is the Lebaudys VINO
are having their innings, while NJ. Santos
Dumont works in silence.
There are Lebaudys and Lebaudys. TINS
is not the family of Jacques, Max ana
Robert-Max. who as a youthful money
scattering sport. was called the Little
Sugarer;" Jacques. who calls himself inc
Emperor of the Sahara, and Robert, VINO
ia serious-minded and crosses the Atlantic
often to invest his surplus income.
JACQUES Max and Robert were the sons
of the eccentric Jules Lebaudy, who early
in life broke away from the sugar business
to become sport and speculator he
made a great fortune in Austrian railways
He was extremely fortunate at horse rae
ing And he made himself an historic
character by smashing the famous Union
Generate Bank in bear movement that
ruined thousands of French families Ills
widow-and the mother of Jacques, NJ IN
and Robert-haS made herself famous III
another way She dresses always in cheap
black spends nothing on herself. lives on
80 cents a day, and is extremely chafltaple
The airship Lebaudys are the cousins vi
these others; but the two families have
never had any social relations. There are
two brothers. Pierre and Paul Bebaudy,
still up to their neckS in Sugar-being, WIN
the Say family, the greatest and, indeed,
almost the only sugar refners In France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
IN THE AIR.

model of the Santos-Dumont airshlp san
tos had never made any secret of his con-
structions operating always in the open
light of Partisan publicity; ana, as SIM,
pie matter of fact, the cut-away curved
form of the Lebaudy elongated balloons is
practically identical with that OF the san,
tos-Dumont No.,4 A. afterward abandoned
by Santos in favor of the more regular.
long-drawn-out and pointed cigar Shapes
of his later models. st.I 'i.'~
Room for Invention. .,
This being conceded in the interest of the
truth of history. there is enough room sun
left for air-ship invention to have kept
Messrs. Julliot and Juchmes busy for more
than two years past. Surcouf early quilted
them to devote himself entirely to automo-
bile road trains-just as Col. Krebs. who,
twenty-five years ago, constructed the cleo
trio motor of the Renard air ship, found 1t
tt his financial interest to give up the
aerial idea and become a member of the
Panhard automobile firm. afJ
About forty miles from Paris on a vast
plain. lies the little town of Moisson, beside
which the Lebaudys have a country house.
Here they built complete air ship-experi-
ment factory and station 1t comprises bal
Icon cutting and sewing halls Qong and
narrow for elongated balloons), where as
many as eighteen, women have sewed to-
gether at given moment; an up-to-date
machine shop, with two submachinists; a
carpenter shop, with two joinerS; a hydro
gen generating plant; an engine room. with
big stationary motor; and. beside these
buildings, there rises the air ship shed. long,
high and narrow-like those of Santos Du-
mont-with sliding doors.
By the end of the summer of 1903 the
first Lebaudy air ship was completed and
under experiment. Great practical secrecy
was observed. Moisson is too far from
Paris to attract sightseers; and no an
nouncements were ever made beforehand.
The greater part of the vast plain is the
property of the Lebaudys, SO that the first
flights of the jaime (or yellow One"
1t was christened) were made otherwise
than in public.
Public Kept Informed.
But not without publicity. M. Juchmes.
the aeronaut. kept log book. infinitely
written up and Engineer Julliot kept an
other. After each flight Of the yellow
One" they made a report which was sent
to- the Paris papers. Thus the Paris public
learned that flights were being made.
Some of the reports read like the log
book of a spherical balloon. The yellow
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world Juchmes is thrty-seven years of
age short and slight in build. is dark COM
plexioned, wears a small mustache that
droops. and has a thoughtful. serious air.
He never posed as an inventor before the
Lebaudys took him up. Neither did the
engineer Julliot, who was for years a kind
of director of the Lebaudy sugar refineries.
All his time and attention was occupied
with sugar machines-until the day when
the Lebaudys called him out to work with
Juchmes, the balloonist, in the construc-
tion of airship.
The Chinese metaphysics method has GER
tain well-known disadvantages. In the
present case the spherical balloonist. habitu-
ated to the point OF instinct to round bal
looms with hole in the bottom and no in
terror pressure. had to unlearn a great
deal. The motor expert Julliot had every
thing to learn. To consolidate their SCI
enee the Lebaudys called in the engineer
Surcouf. This latter is really an inventor
being the perfector. If not the originator.
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ships, Their new one, completed August 1
of the present year, is simply called the
Lebaudy 1904 model. 1t is slightly larger
than the first. cubing 2,6G6 meters; is capa-
BILE of carrying 220 liters of petroleum, and
has Daimler forty-horse power motor,
with its carburator in an asbestos chemise.
The airship has two lateral propellers-
The horizontal iudder has been replaced
by two smaller ones, working independent
ly, the vertical rudder has been enlarged.
Other horizontal "stabilizing rudders, the
invention of NJ Julliot, have been enlarged.
The size of the interior air balloon has
been increased, together with the force of
the ventilator-this to assure interior pres
sure in the balloon-to prevent it from sag
ging and doubling itself. The balloon
is hfty-eiSht meters long. All these de-
experimental previously by Santos-Du-
me mt.
Results Count
1t is, nevertheless, results that count
and during the summer of 1904 the Le-
baudys had a lot of practical pleasure with
their airship-or, as they prefer to say,
their automobile balloon.
Between August and August % they
made eleven trips in it-trips in which they
carried passengers-to cite the Names
Messrs. Surcouf Eberle Baudry, Courier,
Leodegras, Dey, Rey, Dubuc. Marcel Jul
lot, Wizard Monsieur and Madame Paul
Lebaudy and Monsieur and Madame Pierre
Lebaudy.
1t is nevertheless a mistake to herald the
trips made by the two Lebaudy ladies' as
the first ever taken by any woman in a
free dirigble balloon. This error was re-
peated by all the Paris papers and cabled
to the United States. The facts are other
wise. The first lady to rise in free dirig
ible balloon was Senorita Ada Dacosta, a
young Cuban belle well known to New
York society. Not only did she mount in
the 'Santos-Dumont No. 81 in the summer
of 1903, but she mounted alone, steered the
airship alone, with no one holding the
guide rope, the full distance across the
plain of Bagatelle in the Paris Bots.
The Lebaudys have arrived at this point,
therefore. They have a dirigible balloon
that seems to be practical in calm weather
and capable of making it's way in moderate
winds. They carry passengers in 1t. Last
Sunday week ago storm suddenly came
up and tore it from it's moorings when,
fortunately, no one was in it. It was car
ried $50 miles at furious rate. and landed
of its own accord in the grounds of a
chateau. No serious damage was done. In
three weeks the Lebaudy airship will be-
gin carrying passengers again.
STERLING HELLO.
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Ten Thousand Flowers.

From Country Life in America.
The most inspiring Horticultural idea of
the last quarter of century is the natural
izing of flowers by the thousand in situa-
lions where they need absolutely no care
after planting. 1t is the easiest kind of
gardening, for there is no wedding, water
ing, hoeing. stalking or tying. 1t is the
most artistic form of gardening because
the flowers fit perfectly into the landscape.
1t is the mt st effective kind of gardening.
because nothing can surpass In beauty a
continuous sheet of flowers all of the same
variety. (No matter how numerous they
may be- these wildlings never seem gaudy
or vulgar.) And, finally, it is the least ex-
pensive way of getting hosts Of flowers
flowers like the stars Of the Milky Way in
multitude. A thousand narcfssus bulbs.
The thought takes ones breath away; yet a
thousand bulbs of the poets narcissus cost
only $5-a mere nothing compared with the
vision of loneliness which 1t makes possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
DRAINING THE EVERGLADES.
Swampy Section of Florida Soon to Be
Made Productive.

from success
There are great agricultural possibilities
in the Florida everglades Though they
are yet merely an expansive waste of
swamp and lake and jungle, they will be
the location of hundreds of farms within
ten years and will by degrees develop into
one of the most productive tracts of land
in the world. The barrier to the utiliza-
ton of the everglades has been, of course,
the water which covers the greater part Of
them to depth of from one to six feet.
But 1t has been found practicable to drain
off the water Work to this end has al
ready been begun and is being pushed rap
idly When it is completed tract of land
100 miles long and 90 miles wide will have
been opened to cultivation. The size of this
region is not as important as the remark
able productivity of the soil. The latter Is
not only absolutely virgin, but has been
fertilized by animal and vegetable life
through many centuries. I am confident
that It's crops will lift Florida to place
among the leading agricultural states!
The project of draining the everglades at
tracted the attention Of Henry B. Plant in
the early 90s, but he was by no means sure
that the scheme was feasible, so l, acting
through the region. Despite its proximity
to centers of population, 1t was then for
the first time thoroughly explored by white
men Ours was virtually voyage of dis
covery. We padded our light boats on
lakes and camped on islands that I have
reason to believe, had never before been
visited by any human beings but Seminole
Indians. and by these but rarely. We under
went so many hardships that some of our
party were compelled to turn back; but our
efforts were not in vain, for we ascertained
the important fact that the everglades
along the whole 100 miles of the eastern
side are trimmed by rock ledge. We fur
thermore learned that all of the lakes are
several feet above sea level, and we de-
cided that there was nothing whatever to
prevent the water of the lakes from flow
ing into the ocean and leaving the land
drained II vents could be made In this
fore US pertained to the practicability Of
cutting through the ledge in various places
and dredging out outlets into the Atlantic.
which is not more than two or three miles
away at numerous points ir
Experiment proved that this work would
present no great difficulties. 1t was merely
matter of a great deal of digging. Henry
NJ. Flagler took up the project, and 1t is
being carried out by his lieutenants. We
are not only making artificial outlets
through the rock. but also, by dftching
and dredging turning large bodies of water
into rivers and creeks which flow to the
ocean. The work has progressed far
enough to enable me &c predict confidently
the opening in Florida wit1sn a very few
years of a great tract of land of almost I'M
precedented fertility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01

They have always stuck to sugar, nave
never been sports or spectators, are sefl-
Gus. middle-aged business men, ana oae Vi
them-Paul-is deputy, equlVaiehuy CHI
gresham. , -
Won remember the man who started 10
write an ESSAY on Chinese metaphysics!
First he read up China in the encyclopediA
and then he read up metaphysics.
Pierre and Paul Lebaudy, going III iNi
airship experiments suddenly in their seri-
Gus middle-age. adopted similar meth'd.
Balloon and Motor.
An airship-since Santos-Dumont-is
balloon with an automobile motor under
meath it. The Lebaudys therefore u'se
looked about for an expert balloonist- they
found him in the person of M. JuchInes'
Then they hunted up an automobile moor
specialist. Thus they hit on the engineer
Julliot.
They put these two experts together, ana
the result was the first Lebaudy airship.
Young Juchmes is a really celebrated
spherical balloonist, a professional 1t
ought to be noted in the Paris or To-Day,
where gilded youth has taken up spherlcai
ballooning as sport. rms does not pre-
vent him. however. from being Hiehioer
of the swell automobile clubs branch Or
panizatfon called the Aero club, because
this latter from it's foundation. wisely
welcomed professionals and made them at
home.
Thus M. Juchmes like Malot. the con-
structor of balloons and Girardot, the one
time racer and present auto manufacturer,
and many another, has become the friend
and companion of wealthy and arlstocratc
sWells. This new triumphant auto and
baIlooning world of Paris is extremely
democratic Is not the Marquis de DION
himself q manufacturer OF automoDles'
the publisher of a trade paper and thor
oueh man of business-he who began lie
az a snendthrift swell in green rooms, res
taurants clubs and casinos?
Hundreds of Ascents.
During the exposition summer of 1900
M. Juchmes took a prominent part in the
organization of the famous spherical bal
loon races-races for highest altitude, for
lowest altitude, balloon handicaps, long
distance races and ongest-time-in-the- air
contests He has made hundreds of as
cents in the spherical balloons, and it Is
an interesting fact to note that his young
and pretty wife has accompanied him so
frequently that she has more balloon miles
to her record than any other lady In the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
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Window Gardens.
ltry Life in America.

From Country Life in America. ..--
"C1ocuses in january Why not? Moth
ing is easier nor more ENJOYABLE. A few in
expensive window boxes, a few dollars in
vested in bulbs and spring indoors may be
had for the asking. Window boxes have
proved in my experience. much more desir-
able in many respects for bulbs than the
flower pots which are commonly in use. A
window box containing hundred bulbs.
more or less, according to the size of the
bulbs, requires no more care than a single
flower pot-less, in fact because the large
uuartity of soil retains moisture for much
longer time: then, too, there Is sense OF
permanerce in a box that gives 1t some
thing of the dignity and stability of a
garden bed A mass of flowers of the same
variety Is always more effective and salts
fying than a small number of different
kinds grown together.
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One" rose to great heights. 1t made expert
ments in stability. 1t covered long distances
in short time.
Naturally the Parisians became anxious
to see the Lehaudy air ship. 1t was invited
t" Paris The big empty government ex-
position building-the Gallery of Machines
was placed at its disposition. But the "Yel-
lew One continued to maneuver around
Moisson. No promise was made as to when
IL would come to Paris Only boulevard
sceptics ventured TO prophesy an approx
nate date:
THE Yellow one will come to Paris"
they said, ION the first day there is fair
wind from Moisson"
Finally 1t did come to Paris--a distance of
some forty miles--was received with i'm
mense enthusiasm and ..stabied' overnight
in the Gallery of Machines. Seeking-to re-
turn to Moisson two days later. the airship
was carried off by the wind and destroyed.
The Lebaudys do not follow the example
of Santos-Dumont In numbering their air
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
Might Pull Through.

From Life
Have you fed the baby on the patent
food l recommended"
YES Doctor
And inoculated him with the serum /
left?e
Yes. doctor
.And put him In the specially prepared
underwear ~
Eyes. DOCTOR
How Is he2.
.iWell. he may pull through. He has q
good constitution,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01

fn1rmary is also open for the care of girls
who have been discharged from hospitals
as convalescents, but who require rest and
nourishment before they are able to return
to their employment. For several years,
too, number of young women whose phy-
steal condition was not good were sent py
the auxiliary to the mountains or seashore
for rest and recuperation.
Mrs. Nelson, the president, also told OF
several happy marriages that had been
celebrated at the home, the parties or the
been boarders at the institution: and in
nearly every instance it Is said they dio
WELL" In such cases members of the board
of trustees raised sufficient amounts OF
money by subscription among themselves
to give the bridal parties wedding lunch.
while the bride usually received wedding
outfit of clothing.
Proposed improvements to the home in
clude the building of new dining room
and kitchen and the addition of NUMBER
of bed rooms and a large dormitory: Inc
heating apparatus and plumbing Will also
be OVerhauled.
The board of trustees at recent meeting
adopted resolutions appreciative OF the
municent gift Of Miss Bessie j. k1Doy OF
her homestead in this city, the property
known as 311 c street northwest. for the
use of the home" and expressing 1.-The pro-
found gratitude Of that body for the I'D
eral and highly appreciated gift. The reso-
lutions are signed by Thomas P. Morgan
chairman.
Officers Of the Home.
The officers of the home are: President,
Mrs r. E. Nelson; vice presidents. Mrs.
Richard E. Pairo, Mrs. e. Dent Mrs.
Charles Nichols and Mrs. Mcleod Mathe-
son; Treasure r, Mr.. George w. White; re-
cording secretary Miss Godding; corre-
spending secretary, Mrs. John Eaton.
Miss E. Smith is superintendent OF the
institution, and the advisory board consists
IF Dr RandOlDh McKim General Eaton and
Mr.. T. B. Larner. Executive committee,
Mrs. William B. Gurley, Mrs. W. w. Her
ron, Mrs R. E. Pairo, Mrs. P. Ryan, MRS
Eaton and Mrs. McFee; auditor, Mrs. j. u.
McChesney: committee on admission, Mrs.
Eaton. Mrs. w. W. Heron and Mrs. Pairo.
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of tho Renard road trains-whose manu1ac-
ture is now operated under his name;
Happily. they had an alrshIp meaei ro
work on. Just as Santos-Dumont, years
previously. had prohted by the ihten 49,. 80
H. 6rst autnmobiIe motors to attach one
beneath an elongated balloon, SO now
Juchmes. Julliot and Surcouf had only 10
copy an attempt to perfect the latest
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FINANCIAL.

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Repairs and Additions.

The home was temporarily closed June
80, 1904, for repairs and additions. An
other branch 6f work under the direct man
agement Of the Young Ladies' Auxiliary Is
the care of the inmates when. sick They
are furnished with medicines and delicacies
and when necessary. astratned nurse. The
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-25

uIcn0I makes belts grip the puIIeys, pro
vIOuul tects them from steam and wa
sss 81. prevents glazing. Tor sals by
BROWN BROS Gu
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-25
A SIDE SHOW.
WARREN.

Great interest centres In the financial
town meeting which occurs the early part
Of March. Az Of the various departments
need more money for running expenses.
The highway department will ask FOR
a larger appropriation and the addition OF
two new hre companies in tho town
Amity lodge J. O. .. T.. held = busi-
ness meeting and social season in odd
Fellows hail. last night
A very successful social whist Was
held In the district court room OF the
town hall last night
The town council and board OF can
vassers are 20 meet I'm the town clerks
Office. Tuesday evening. March for the
purpose OF canvassing the voting lists,
preparatory TO town election.
The Ladies' Sewing society OF the Bap-
tIst church. met yesterday afternoon In
the vestry OF the church Re 'reshments
were served after the afternoon session.
The water works company had their
hands f1li Yesterday With leak at the
corner OF Market and Main street The
leak Was q large one. and the water had
backed through tho ground into the cellar
Of the Carrick block. making II necessary
TO use a water pump.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-02-25
PAWTUCKET.

Joseph Cropper of Cross street fiao MS
right hand badly lacerated at the penp-
sev bIeacheres yesterday. while iifting
\ barrel. His cousin, Aeter Cropper'
,,bue at work in the same establishment
so,,. time later In the day had two toes
badlv lacerated by n ladder faliing on
them. DIR. c. f. Gardner ATTENDED poth
men. -, >t,,,or
A small gathering heard ek-MaScr
chase of Haverhill, speak on labor
struggle for Better Conditions iast
night. ,.nsfor
Thomas Long was granted transfer
or his LIQUOR license by the commission
ers to Charles Cooke.
Robert MacKillop has oeeh CHOSEN
chairman OF the commission to lay out
and widen Main street, under "e better
ment act A.,
Last night was Visitors night at the
Nyorlt,ns Girls club. The class In gym
nastic did some interesting work lhere
was a large attendance.
The recognition services for Rev Ed
ward Bayard shaw OF the leasant view
Raptist church were we'll attended last
night Nearly all the Protestant pastors
OF this city and Central Falls were In at
tendance|
The funerals OF Mrs. Sarah -. Nc
Iaughlin and Matthew kinneburgh were
held Yesterday.