The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-11-22
BrattlebOrO Local
CAUGHT IN A
SNOW SQUALL
Balloon Which Passed Over
Here Struck One.
LANDED in FREMONT
ovor n Mile High When over FMS
Town Friday Interesting story
About Storm Which Baiioohis's IN
countered Near Marlboro Nov D.

About Storm winch
countered Near Marlboro Nov D.
Al an altitude of over a mile the
,ol,oon Stevens 81. sailed over Brat
,leboro last Friday afternoon carrying
Len Stevens of New York city anu
1amos T. Ford of Chicago. The bal
loon assembled from North aua
Mass. at ll.Ol and took northeass
erlv direction until over TINS LOW
',t;oh was reached at about lz'4o'
Trom here the balloon continued III
most directly east, passing over Ines
,oreeId Keene, Manchester ana Exc
ter and landing near Fremont, N u,
ahout AIS. The distance covered was
abont 134 miles. The trip was one Oh
tbe most enjoyable that MI stevens
has ever taken and Mr.. Loru, mno
made his first aerial voyage, was gu
thusiastic over the pleasures Oh pai'
The balloon sailed slowly over brat,
uohoro almost directly toward the
aost and was watched by large mum
her of people. 1t was SO high, NJ"
ovor that the basket looked ike
mara speck and it was impossible 10
discern the occupants. AS the paiioon
disappeared beyond the mouh.aaa
many people were of the OPINION tha'
- was but a few feet above the rlage'
hrt this was an error due to the ma
bilitv of people on earth to Judge tne
LnIlcon g exact location. Gllstenlhg
in tbe bright sunshine the huge
straw.colored gas bag made an AT,
tractive spectacle. The trailing gulue
rome was plainly visible and at inter
,,aIs n handful of sand would snoot
downward from the car like pun u
When lust beyond Brattleboro the
bol,oon went into snow squall when
was remarkable in that the lakes as
canded instead of falling. In ordef
70 escape this squat it was necessary
to rise to height OF nearly o,ooU
Foot On account of the unusual
hnoyancy of the gas it was diihcui'
to keep the balloon as close 10 tne
earth as was desired, and frequent,
it was necessary to pull the gas vais'
70 keep the big bag at low altituue
Charles J. Glidden, who ascendee
with Leo Stevens Nov. 8, tells an eA
tremely interesting story OF th'
storm which the balloon encountered
on that day when above Mariooro
His description follows: .-ao,
.sThen we came into the influence
If storm. 1t was at Marlboro U
the east where we couiu seo ~.
clouds rolling and tossing darkly, hk
thunder storm. But there was M
storm, as it was cold, the Temperature
being "a. The low pressure drove u
rioht toward the storm, and the pa'
began to whirl round and round. '"
+braw ont a little sand, and as W
went No our course changed TO vi
north. Then we struck colo pias
from that storm that drove us sout
and dropped us down again, carryln
MS once more toward the 'Ioin
Twice we circled in that way rouh
the town, in a radius OF three niiie'
and all the time whirllng' ,-.
aft was a battle with the element
Mr. Stevens was trying to escape Una
storm and the wetting that woul
come with it, and at the same time
nse as little sand as need be. flna
" we went north, and at Dover sane
right up through that great Whi'
Land The sun above was blgf
and warm and started TO draw Us VI
ward. auor
~ began to be faint, and so dram
some Appollinaris water. Atter 'a a'
T felt fine and pretty soon reached II
some more, and found that Mr.. ste
ems had drunk it all up. With all n
ascensions he had been affected
the sudden changes in temperatul
from "A to so and had needed som
too. ...o -
sEI now threw out cigarette P
nor IN determine our direction, and u
thing being lighter than the oaiioo
flew off at right angles to the We
we were facing and thought we we
going. That shows how little "
Teally can tell about your dlrectl'
when above the clouds. We we
going southeast, again in the grip
That distant storm. We threw o
sand, and up we went some more
q Suddenly Stevens said, 'We'd be
fer 90 down. He pulled the vaiN
little by little, and because OF I
heat of the sun, it took some tin
Then suddenly we dropped from
height of $500 feet straight throu
a cloud down to half mile above
earth. 1t seemed like finding an @
friend to see the earth again. A
it was cold, while above we had be
perspiring with our coats on :,
sbouted out to a fellow in the fiel
Where are we9' and he cried, hoc
ingham, Vermont We had gone
miles in 80 minutes. We now +
fine and ate our sandwiches IN
Stevens confessed that he was ARA
of fainting up there, and SO had
come down."