Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-18
BALLOON SPEEDS
 OVER GOTHAM
Thousands Thrilled By Flight of DingibIe Piloted By
 Frank Goodale
HUDSON RIVER CROSSED
 TWICE BY THE AIR BOAT

NEW YORK. July 17.-Upper Man haitian had a real live sensation this morning when it glanced towards the heavens and saw an airship away to- ward the clouds. but following the Broadway trail down town. The news that a slxyboat was sailing over the town spread quickly and halted pc destrians on the streets and sent the dwellers of tenements and apartment houses to the roofs for better view of the novel spectacle.
 Ii was 9 o'clock, but New York was awake and enjoying itself. It was seen that the big gas bag was not running with the whim of the wind ar air currents but was under good control and apparently just as easily steered as abicycle or automobile.
 Of course there were shouts ot "Who is it?" as lusty lung persons ycheered and hallooed. 1t was not long before it became generally known that Frank w. Goodale, the young aero uaut was taking morning fly in his liirigible.
 Thousands watched as the big ma chine made its way across from Palis- ades Park near Fort Lee, and at a dizzy altitude lowered for moment near Grants Tomb and then steered it's course by the tortuous Broadway from One Hundred and Sixteenth street down to Long Acre Square, then a skip over the house tops to the Plaza, a whirl or two high above the corner of Central Park and then a safe and satisfactory return voyage to the Jersey amusement park, which is about opposite One Hundred and Thirtieth street, Manhattan.
 The sky sailor told no one until late that he was going to make the trip. The feat was successful and un- advertised. No one heard about il. but if seemed as if everybody saw 1t this morning Although shouts of delight bombarded the navigator, as he sailed away above this island of the Manbattoes. the young man. if he heard, paid little heed to the plaud- its and cheers but kept on his course. It was easy for him to see the com motion his flight was causing here on terra firma and to demonstrate his skill performed a number of aerial evolutions with his bulky vehicle of the air.
 While it lasted there was the deuce to pay with traffic. Street cars were DiOCkeu. lTuckineN Nlln IiitlnS re marks halted their teams and turn ed their loving eyes on certain DOT ton of the heavens. Pedestrians romped in the roadways like school boys on the playground. Girls and women, some of them with babies in their arms, ran afteh the flying hal loon that defied the wind.
 The weather conditions were just right for the daring experiment, and that is why Goodale summoned his assistant hurriedly and got the big dirigible into shape for the feat. Soon the aviator was on his way. Before leaving Jersey young GOodale ascend ed several thousand feet in order to avoid the condensation Of gas which attends the crossing of the Hudson in a balloon.
 It was plain that Goodale had The balloon under perfect control. As he gtided downtown he was not more than 600 feet above the housetops that fringe Broadway. Huddled in Long Acre Square was mass of bowling humanity and Goodale, before he reached Forty-second street, made q bunch of circles.