El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-05

from view, and their apprehension in
creased with every moment or his en-
forced delay. After an hour and halt
of fruitlesS waiting and Craning or
neeks, the disappointed and highly
alarmed crowd thinned out to marked
degree, and shortly thereafter the pleas
ure grounds were deserted, there being
no circus performance.
Manager Prescott was very much wor-
ried, and made no secret OF his Anxiety
He evidently feared the worst, as a
small bit Of a 10 dollar bill came TO
earth few PAGES from the door OF the
animal tent. Inasmuch as Trevaley re-
ceived the half of his ascension money
in 10 dollar bills before the start and
stuck them in his belt the occurrence
was taken as conclusive that the bal
loonist sought TO show the watchers
that he considered life as good as lost.
However, last night the Associated
Press received a dispatch TO the effect
that Trevaley had been sighted In the
neighborhood of The Palms. and an
inquiry resulted in this laconic reply
from the aviator himself:
st can be sighted between 10 and II
tonight at The Pease Place in The
Palms Trevaley-
A staff correspondent located the
aeronaut in private houSe. and received
from him his own account of the re-
markable flight, which follows:
By Cecil TrevaIey.
Contrary to my usual custom OF max
ing an ascension after the show at $50,
went up before the afternoon perform
ance at the special request of the man
agement, and scattered some handbilis
of the circus and menagerie- That was
something new to me. but 1 was widely
advertised and in grand condition
think it was because of the unusually
-.
on earlier in the day.
However, my invar1able inspection of
the parachute ropes before soaring to
an altitude, 1 am now positive, has been
the keynote OF my heretofore remark
able success. 1 may have been a little
upset at the different hour. or in haste;
at all events. Mr.. Prescott offered TO
overlook them in my stead this time.
and he doesn't know the first thing
about parachute.
Instead of cutting loose when 1 nego-
tiated 5000 feet, which Is long drop.
1 assembled to 10000 to make good on
the advertising, then pulled the handle
over my head TO allow the parachute
ropes to slip off of an iron hook at
tached to the bottom of the balloon. /
always get sheer, breathless drop of
1000 feet before the parachute fills, that
being the later. more sensational devel-
opment OF the old time, easy going UNI
brella parachute.
But one of the connecting ropes Of
the bag had wound, itself on the hook,
taut over the parachute, and all my
wrenching On the handle couldn't cut
me loose. 1 chung to the slender ira
peze up in the mist out of sight OF land.
and drifted around with nothing more
than pair of purple spangled tights
against the freezing cold, and, my
heaven, how cold il was, 1t took three
hours for the hot air in that bag TO
cool and when Ii did so 1 must have
dropped for 5000 or 1000 feet. Then
the heavy earthly air slowed up the ter
rifle speed and 1 came down more easily.
They tell me that 1 wound my arms
tightly about the ropes OF the trapeZe,
and when l neared the ground 1 swung
sldewise, rapidly back and forth, so
that the force Of the drop was spent
on the right end Of the bar, which was
driven a foot into the earth by the i'm
petus; and 1 received a heavy, though
far from fatal, fall.
1t is my accustomed way in landing
to swing the trapeze, and I have come
to the conclusion that 4 1t was more
through instinct than design that &C
eomplished it in my crazy state of mind
1 went completely off my head up there
with the cold and my utterly helpless
condition. Now, I feel wearied in body,