Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-23
Smiling IN TIE AIR


The opening Of regular alrship pas
senger service from Fi1ederichshafen
10 Dussrldorf Germany. IL an event
II moIe than ordinary Importance. It
IS an achievement that has been looked
lofWars to ever sinne stephen Mont
golfer. in 1852. succeeded IN causing 4
silk balloon 10 rise 10 the roof Of
rOom only the next year the expert
ment. vas successfully repeated A
balloon, IS feet In diameter, and filled
with hot air rose TO an altitude OF
loo feet This event was at the timc
c0ns!ccred extraordinary, and the news
" II o. said to have made profound
lmgr, Sion In Paris
a.u,n then experiments In aeronauii 's
haze been made constantly. As ea'h
~ 1888 animals were sent up In a basket
sttached TO n balloon and they reached
M ground in safety. In the same year
Pilatre des Rosters, IN company with
Marquis d'Arlandes went up with a
Montgolfier. They noatcd over the
Seine and "A considerable part OF Paris.
Shortly afterwards Professor Charles
and companion went up vito a tai
loan filled w.th hydrogen, They mad
n Ven equipped aerial machine. Many
beid travellers have followed these
pioneers In air navigation. Balloons
have been enlisted IN the service OF
armies AM of science During The
siege of Paris 1901. the balloon was
extensively usei q convey m.gstsss
and even passengers out OF tn, 2ity.
one air navigator landed in Norway.
after having performed the most re-
markable air voyage on record. But
Until recently the art OF steering the
balloon had not been mastered. The
larec cOal-gas balloon Of the English
aeionaut Green IN 1885 bore him ana
his two companions from Nauxhall
Gardens. London. to Weilburg. In tho
Grand Duchy OF Nassau, a distance u
800 miles in eighteen hours. But this
was only drifting with the air currents.
Real air navigation was impossible uu-
al the invention OF the motor that
makes steering practicable. This Is
now accomplished. and the first air
line for passenger traffic il said to have
boon opened
What this means for the future can
only be conjectured. 1t is not yet
hundred years since tho Savannah
crossed the Atlantic from savannah to
Liverpool. in 25 day-. partly with the
aid OF steam engines. At that time 1t
was generally considered impossible TO
depend upon steam only. for ocean nayi-
cation. But, what "a wonderful change
time has brought about! II IL entirely
probable that, as the beginning Of the
nineteenth century saw the first at
tempts at a successful battle for free
dom against wind and waves. 50 the
beginning Of the twentieth century has
witnessed the first conquests OF the
air TO be followed by achievements as
brilliant as those OF the past century
in the domain OF ocean navigation.
How does It feel to fly? is a question
that many are asking themselves. It is
answered by II. II. Wilson in the Los
Angeles Times Ho went up with
Paulhan, lie says in part
"As we lifted higher into the air and
gained speed looked backward to see
II ! could not encourage "A little sense Of
fear or danger II was not there. The
sense OF motion or momentum allays
all such impressions. IL Is one OF tbs
primal laws OF the universe that body
set in motion win continue until mo-
tion Is overcome by resistance. The re-
sistance OF the air which lifts you up
does not reach the consciousness. For
that reason you feel that you will ny
forever III YOU choose. In this there
Is no fear. but only bilssful contempia-
ton"
SO. IN all probability, any passenger
line In the air viii BE- well patronized.