The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-30
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"TerrbIc!m said Stevens. ''Here-gve them this''
great inbation, the balloon was packed and loaded
with his prize tho door Of the village tavern was
sswnging with ~ unusual @ rapidiy and many pals wss
Many hairbreadth escapes have been made by the
ss r % G5 & the % & nearing the
umnSTs best sns skill is Gae9 into PaX
in 1883 lie made jump OF 5000 feet at Hlexandrs
palace London, before the Prince of Wales and the
Just before he graspcd the bar Baldwin turned and
s9fG bs aaPss Sas with ns t. R ESTs1& VII
hegshmen @ have way of accepting Sp literally Gc
but he added Il Will wait here for m S yon Y'' '''
chance remark. but the unexpected happened. A CON
of shifting air currents carried him down from
the and Of e gently e as GisSy M gpon at
e b Baoo IN him a ring
ton presented later huge gold medal sonorously
While abroad, Baldwin Aoated over Mount yesuvius
made parachute leap before the King of Siam and
troops were called out to que the riotous enthusiasm
accasGned as by his exploits before band of students
his me neck before reScuing party arrived,
happened at his home town of Quincy, III. He had
previously made descent here OF 5000 feet. Later
and doubling It's resistance area he determined to Jump
Parachute Fails to Work.
passed through this and was in comparative calm
when he cut loose, two miles above the earth.
Down he shot and then that horror of the parachute
jumper happened His parachute would not open The
wind had tangled the ropes.
That mdair descent stranged him and all but de-
stroyed his consciousness. lie remembers very little
except that he suddenly passed the semi darkness
Of a black cloud and felt force about him. He
had dropped into the wind strata and was being
wind which had caused his undong might prove his
savior If its transverse force would continue all the
way down to earth
He had no hope, however. Like other aeronauts in
similar predicaments, he accepted deatheyen calmly
voiced that acceptance TO himself.
As he was swept the city he was conscious of
his ,ownspeope below, and strange thought entered
his mind. They could see him and were aware of his
instrument of certain death. Would they Judge him
coward if he continued to hold on? They knev and
better to perpetuate that reputation? If he
die anyway, ought he not to ma Ike fitting ending to
his career by deliberately dropping just the city
Something checked the resolve almost the moment
he made IT. it that grim determination to live
Fundamentally strong in all of US. In another moment
he was watching the racing. earth beneath him--a
chances if that wind stratum lasted eyes wide OPEN
muscles tense and ready for some extreme effort.
bleeding but alive and whole Today he laughs
the episode,Eif fall Of 10000 feet may from any
of fighting the air, - he calls il, remark
able one lie has never suffered an injury as serious
The big fees received by the pioneer parachgte,
worth several bundled for single descent at Quncy
and Stevens often made $500 for one day IS work
the field Some were rowing spirits TO whom chance
misfortune made ready money seem more TO be de-
knowledge, and many killed--so many, in fact.
that several states hastened 10 pnss laws prohibiting
still holds.
There dangers enough in the air. it would seem.
perous descent at Niagara. When at consider
able height two adverse currents of air caught his