The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-22
COUNTRY IN BALLOONS
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cubic feet ~ rla, and II took several hours
20 put her IN readiness Tor tho trip.
Tlr accent was madr without n hitch,
There Waa y gcntle sputhcnstcrly wind
blowing and rho balloon noated m from
iJsfh street toward the Hudson. Tho bal
loun hadn't gone far when the operator
-aut her down several hundred feet.
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after a aiglag trip up the Hudson
A. ~" Hotel Raleigh In p'ekakill he said
that there had been nothing particularly
eN"ntf1l about the trap When we started
out, sall ho. the first thing that we noticed
vas the moisture that soaked down on 10 us
like n mid rain, That was because ~ the
great amount Of water In the gas Of the bal
loon. | think We had about 100 pounds of
water in the 81 900 cubic feet Of gas. The
first move after we got high up was 10 swing
on toward Long Island
We hung up in the air over the Sound
and after a little while an air current caught
liz and whirled liz back again. was not
in the least afraid az Ievee mad the balloon
conn letely under his control all the time.
The balloon finally was caught in an air
current and HtRrtde Of on the whirl mp the
river. We were shot hack and cut across
the Hudson below Yonkers at abou the
point where Stevens smashed up against
the Palisades the other day.
we were saving the ballast all the time,
and although we took along 200 pounds
wa did not use "A tenth of hat amount
Levee directed the balloon back across the
river. and I believe that, all told. we crossed
the river four times in the course of the
drive. A LOT Of boats were or the river
about Yonkers. and once we were within
thirty feet of the water.
AT length after a deal Of lacking about
we decided that we would try to make West
Point. II was far from pleasant mp in the
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the water hat dripped down on us was
fairly freezing az it soaked through our
clothes.
1t soon became evident that we could
over Ossining bound for West Point we
decided to go back to the other side, where
the woods wore not so thick and pick a
place for a landing. 1t was getting too
dark to delay much longer abou landing
anyhow.
@Ievee set the balloon down in a nice
spot on a farm back Of Peekskil, and the
landing was almost without incident. The
place we got down in was a farm belonging
to a man named Wexford Croft, about
two miles and a half back of Peekskill.
There were several persons looking for
us when we came down. s%currying about
the road in automobiles, but they did not
get up To us until after we had the balloon
almost all debated.
Mr.. Croft helped us with the balloon
and got rather a sorry reward for his kind
ness. The guide rope was caught in a
branch and when we stepped out he was
the basket. The balloon shot up
and he went with it about thirty feet up in
and came down ~allasafe by way of the
DR.. Thomas and Levee travelled only a
very short trip in point of time. They
out at a quarter OF 8 O'Clock in the
and struck ground at half past
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Haendler's balloon is smaller, the en-
holding u 500 cubic feet of gas.
Haendler had Intended to take Mrs. Maria
Fuchs of Hoboken up with him, but Mrs.
Fuchs changed her mind, and a newspaper
nan stepped into the vacant place, first
the owner that he couldn't stay
lp for six hours.
1t looked az he start az though Haendler
the newspaper mar were going to meet
an accident. The balloon when about
100 feet from the ground hit the gas COM
nany's steel smokestack. A pretty good
oreeze was blowing, and the balloon re-
from the stack like a huge rubber
oall. The basket tilted a little, but Haendler
lad the presence Of mind to throw of bal
a-t and the balloon shot up out Of danger.
The Haendler balloon went up about 2 500
eel, then took a northeastern course, grad
lallv veering of TO the north.
A. landing was made at half past 0 O'Clock
1t BOWS Dock. Ardsley-on-Hudson The
iaiioon was Debated and left on the dock
md the party left for the Ardsley Club.