Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-12-29
LONG TRIP IN CLOUDS.
FAURE TELLS OF GREAT VOY-
AGE IN BALLOON.
Aeronaut's Journey from France to
Hungary in Frozen Atmosphere
Fell Three Miles in Five =.
Minutes,

Parls.-JacQue Faure, winner of the
recent balloon race, arrived in Paris
the other day. He tells the following
story of his trip from Paris to
Leutschau, Hungary:
I'VE set off from the Tuileries gar
den at "a minutes past four o'clock
Sunday afternoon, and passed across
the Place Vendome to the south of the
Sacre Occur at a moderate height, but
on quitting Paris altogether we rose
to an altitude of 5000 feet or so above
the clouds which had been depressing
Parisians throughout the day. Above
us, however, at perhaps $4,000 feet
from the earth, was another cloud belt
So we whirled along between these
two belts, in a clear but frightfu1ly
cold atmosphere.
1.-THE cold was really terrible. AL
our water and other liquids were frozen
solid. We felt about as miserable as
possible. The hail and rain contin~
ually descended, drenching us through
to the skin.
AT midnight exactly a remarkable
disturbance in conditions took place.
The cloud banks above and below us
split up as if by magic, and we again
saw the earth beneath us. I was not
quite sure where we were at this time,
but I fancy the mass of light we saw
beneath us must have been Stras-
bOurg.
"Above us we could make out the
Great Bear with distinctness. Indeed,
from then EDWARDS I was able to tell
our bearing by the light of the pole
star. Thus from midnight to 53C
o'clock in the morning we glided along
in the glow of magnificent moon
The clouds, however, filled in beneath
US and obscured the world from our
vision.
"Al this time it remained wretched.
ly cold Our bags of ballast which
had been wetted, were frozen solid and
we were obliged to bang them against
the edge of the car to loosen the
particles of sand so that they should
do no injury when we threw them out
AT six o'clock in the morning we
rose to 10000 feet and continued to
rise. We already had sped above the
Danube for over 1eo kilometers (161
miles and had obtained most fascinat.
Ing views from time to time as we
swept along at a speed well over 100
kilometers 'G2 nilesl al hour
All this time the morning sun was
expanding the gas in the balloon and
we were drying ourselves nicely. Yet
all tn tir1e we were gradually sink.
ing. Overheard hol gone all our bal
last. cur spare clothes; bags of pro.
wisconsin, fact. everything which
tended; to weigh us down. We were
racing. and took every advantage. but
ali IS useless. The moment had
coI2e. as it comes to all balloonists,
When the gas must 6issipate into the
air. We we're 1900 feet above ground,
and still! hurryins: along when the
descent began. In seven minutes we
had dropped through FIVE kilometers
about three miles,. In 20 minutes we
came Gown in some trees in the neigh
borhcod Of Leutschau. We came in
contact with the earth quite gently
and suffered no damage. The balloon,
scarcely damaged, is now on it's way
back TO Paris by train
Faure's ballooning feat In covering
distance Of 1,400 kilometers (875
miles, from Paris to Leutschau. Hun.
gary. between Sunday afternoon and
Monday morning, though an excellent
performance, considering the adverse
weather conditions, does not beat the
record established by Comte de la|
Vaulx. when he landed In Russia, al
distance Of 1000 ki]ometers Q,25Q
miles, from Paris.