The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-22
BALLOONS In
THE OLD DAYS
England Had the Flying
Fever.
KING ADJOURNED COUNCIL
French Aviators After More Re
cords.
)Duke OF Edinbonouxh Retires-rhe
King and 0mciaI England are
Much Disturbed over the
Unsettled Conditions In
ny HAMILTON RHoDEs,


London. Aug. 2l--More ambitious
flights than Beleriot's across the Canal
have projected--at all events on paper
There was, for instance. the widely
advertised scheme Of the "Trans-At-
lantic Balloon Company" during the
Great Exhibition Of 1881, which offer
ed to take limited number of first
class passengers from London to New
York, the journey to occupy four days
and the fare to be $z62.5o each. The
advertisement attracted q great deal
Of attention, but the company appar-
emily never went beyond the sstab.
lishment of o ticket ONCE In Upper
Thames street.
Disastrous was the experience Of
Vincent de Groof. a Belgian who in
1873 attempted to Justify his self in
vented nickname OF the Flying Man"
His invention consisted of kind Of
parachute with wings attached to
Initiate the flight of q bird, with mo-
tive power supplied by his own arms.
Attached to a balloon he made on
ascent from Cremorne Gardens en-
June 20. and succeed in flying and
dropping to the ground in ESSEX; but
in an attempt made week later he
was dashed to pieces on the pavement
Of a street In Pimlico.
When Lunardi made the first sue
cessful balloon ascent in Great Britain
on September 15. 1884. from the ArtiI-
lery Ground at Moorhelds. public ex.
citement was at fever-heat Even the
king was infected by II, for he ad-
journed his council, engaged on inn
portant state deliberations, saying:
my lords, we shall have an opportu-
nifty OF discussing this question an
other time. but we may never again
see poor Lunardi? And the ascent
was the means of saving a mans life,
for jury brought in verdict of not
guilty on notorious highwayinan
that they might rush out OF court 70
see the balloon.
Students Of old treatises on balloon
ing viii remember how in 1870 a learn
ed gentleman named Borelli demon
strated the imposibiiity OF man fly
ing like a bird. He showed from a
comparison OF the muscles that move
the wings of q bird and those whioh
| move the arms of a man that the lat
ter are utterly insufficient to strike
| the air with such force as to raise him
| from the ground" But man has now
acquired the muscles--rnuscles moved
by petrol and electricity--and the iu,-
| possible has happened. II 1909 has
| been signalized by an epoch making
| event in aeronautics the year 1907
was marked by one OF the most suc-
cesful strokes of quackery in avia-
Guzman applied to the King of Portu-
gal for his patronage of a flying ma
| chine resembling bird. with tubes
| through which the wind was to pass
| In order to float the wings. In spite
of tho fact that the Friar could never
be persuaded to make an experiment
with his queer craft he was given a
| profassorship in the University Of
| Reimbra and pension.
Ont for More HAN0PGa.
But the year 1909 Is not yet ended
| and the French aeronauts threaten to
| break some more records.
Many of Enelands peers are
noted as as. money Ena setters ..t and
dealers of Lord Onslow were
recently referred to. and now 1t seems
| that the late Duke of Richmond and
| Gordon managed by an astute scheme
to avoid paying death duties On his
estate in Scotland. In 1897 the late
Duke disentailed the estate and gave
Duke and the present heir. the Eearl
OF March. as the expectancy value Of
| their interest In the estate. Shortly
! before his death he practically restor-
| ed the entail on the estate. The Crown
claimed that this $3.50, 900 should bs
included in the calculation of the
| death duties, but the House of Lords
/ mas AOJCStCo SAO oiA&iA hcs-
Their censure nor sanction the manner
In which the Act OF 1894 has been rem
dered null and void" the Lord Chan
cellor stated. at IL for the Legisla-
ture to provide means for counterfeit
ing this method by which settled pro-
perty entirely escapes estate duty"
Lord Macnaghten and Lord Atkinson
agreed with the opinion OF the Lord
Chancellor that the late duke had
kept within the law, but Lord Collins
and Lord Shaw differed with them.
81 think" Lord Shaw stated, "that the
late dukes plan for saving death dH-
ties was astute. elaborate. and uDsus-
nessful"
A number of Peers are fighting the
Liberal governments budget for all
they are worth. and they are crying
worse than children over their pros
pective loses under the new land ar
they allege Socialistic) scheme Of
taxation.
The Spanish Situation.
King Edward and official England
generally have manifested great con-
Germ over the situation in Spain. The
latest news. limited in quantity and
quality by the severity of the press
censorship, represents the situation at
and about MelilIa as unchanged, and
the revolution In Barcelona as queiied
Unfortunately. the latter intelligence
would be more encouraging but for
the fact that rebellion In Barcelona
Ia rather the oxfornal aymnfoY,a NJ N