The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-12
Sensation Explained by Scientist Who
Took Trip in Balloon
10000 Feet
Up.
THE SILENCE rs INTENSE
Ego Bourse in Berlin Fixes the
Grades and Prices Four
...- Days Each
Week.
! [By Karl |. Won Wiesend, Berlin Cor.
respondent Of the United Press.l

lBy kari i. Won NleSenu, Beriln SoT'
respondent OF the United Press.l
BERLIN, April 11.-How does il
feel to be five miles in the air? What
are the sensations to be out OF sight
of the earth? DIR. Albert Wigand, a
German scientist and aeronaut who
with companion recently reached an
altitude of 10000 feet in balloon. an
swers these questions. The ascension
at which this worlds record was
reached, was made for the purpose OF
scientific observations.
Far, far away is the earth--iifeless
and smooth as a map says DR.. Wi
gand in his report. THE warm colors
of the earth are soon lost in the neu-
Trailing tints Of the grey mist. Soon
the lower strata of clouds with their
wonderful color play of white, blue
and violet, are far below US and shut
the earth from sight.
! "Overpowering silence that awes the
soul reigns and indescribable cold
height literally between heaven and
4 earth, with nothing to attract the
senses, mans inner feeling-soul
and mind--have full play. Ernest.
serious, grand and majestic are ones
thoughts and feelings.
The balloon enters a. high strata OF
\ cT0ifds which from earth look as at
tractive as little white sheep In the
azure blue. But we And them to be thin
grew formless wells of countless float
ing little ice crystals rejecting the
dazzling rays of the sun like millions
of diamonds. These ice crystals take
air the warmth from the sun rays. The
thermometer registers sixty below.
"The voice sounds peculiar. There
, is no disposition to talk. I speak to
nv companions and get the reply sill
ence.' Soon an indescribable over
} towering longing for mother earth
and her warmth and beauties and the
music and noises of life, comes over
one.
LAS the atmospheric pressure is but
one fourth at this altitude that it Is on
earth, we breath oxygen from supply
in the basket OF the balloon. Yellow
euphos glass goggles protect the eyes
against the intense ultraviolet sun
rays. Hands and feet are almost freez-
ing although encased in the warmset
of Arctic covering. The face also il
covered to prevent the skin from be-
ing blistered by the sun.
/ DR.. Wigand said that the greatest
danger in such ascents and descents.
was the rapidly changing atmospheric
pressure. which affected the heart.
lungs and ears. These changes are so
rapid and so tremendous that few
people can stand them
| While American housewives are
forming anti-egg trust unions ana
battling to keep eggs somewhere be-
low a dollar a dozen. Berlin said to be
the biggest egg consumer Of any city
it's size in the world. has solved the
solution of egg prices by means of an
egg bourse" Berlin eats a little
more than 100000 600 eggs year or
an average of about one and half
eggs a day for each man. woman and
child Beriners pay between eleven
and twelve million dollars year for
eggs Despite the fact that Germany
imported GS5, 715.340 eggs last year be-
cause IT could not produce enough for
it's own consumption. the price in Der.
lin averaged between 20 and % cents
a dozen. The greater part OF the I'M
ported eggs comes from Russia which
is the largest egg producing country in
the world. 1t exports annually about
four billion eggs. Austria and Dem
mark follow next The egg bourse
which is under the supervision of the
Merchant Elders and Chamber of Com
merce of Berlin fixes the grades and
prices of eggs It is open four days a
week. Women dealers take a lively
part in the trading