Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-11-20
THINKING OF TAKING
TRIP TO THE CLOUDS?
Better Telephone Weather Btu
reau Station Before You Start
and Get a Line on What to Ex-
pect in the Way of Astrological
Conditions


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No ,on,or do ov,,,ors ,ho cbarce in
coma IN p,r,Inytor b.va In look AZ tho
s,., ,n5 si, and uonaor about tho condi.
tiors they ORC IN r,oot boforo .t,rtine
off for I. I,,tle trim For tbev can find ont
n,,oh r,o,a .x,ct,v met y,ho, ,o evnecf
b, inst ,nboninp Tho uyeatbor bureau.
ana there win tbe holm of Tho row an
nar,tus IL, ,eroIogic,I roso,rcb yor,s re-
Gently Installed. the answer can bo quickly
given.
put how 20 rot tb,t ,rsuor IL ubot
nuzz,es most NJ us First ~ n &c cloudy
dav as was Yesterday Won cboose n rod
balloon fror, , nile ra,rh,, or 20 +ho GU,
shines n white one. Then Won On upstairs
and weigh the balloon This particular
one weighed 90 grams. Now this balloon
must have inst enough pas in II IN give
u an ascensional rate Of 900 meters
mjnute or ahout Gao feet To do this n
must no 6,,ed With enough yas f,vdroyen
ia used, 70 lift n cortain weight Tho
difference hatuee, tho weight Of tho
balloon and This snecitied weight 10 NIT
on tho nan of come sca1os 4be balloon at
tached ana u,ben II ,if,s Tho ,v.;cht evact-
Nv. there ,s ms, tho rjpht amount Of
gas Inst nc the wejybt of tho dtffere,t
Ri G'i tha
diameter NJ tho bai,oon when inflated
and this balloon had an AVERAGE di,meter
of 70 centlmeters or about 20 inches
Having evervthinp readv Charles n
Remis who vos sc,+ IN Rur,iryton for
this work and = II u.rtweu n,a+ooro-
logist at the weather bureau took the
balloon and a queer looking instrument
called a theodoljte which measures
horizontal and vertical onples II Ioo,.ed
much like tho instrument corr,ed bv
surveyor. on,v as Mr. Benis said If
would measure angles in the s,Iv 40 we,,
Perhaps that will helm in the work Of
surveying wben aviation hocon,ae ,,,or,
general and traffic ru,es are needed
The instrument xyas cot AZ , g,ver nos,-
ton on the roof Of tho building This nosi-
ton having been determined hv IN. s,ars
some time before II ie tho center of a.,
hIo,i, 20 oo,,,a,,, 49, -. .,
observations arc made to see ~ its nosi-
ton is strictly correct Then at exactIv
3:15 oclocl--evervthi>e ,s done On tho dol
M there-the balloon was ra,eassa aud II
flew off at n great Gin. for tho wind was
blowing al the rate of o6 miles an bour
Yesterday. I, sailed on and IN and r,ho,
It began to look as though IT vvould dis
appear in a moment. Mr. Hartwe,l said 70
Mr. Remis "Read " He read ,bo verniors
attached TO the instrument am, reported
For several minutes this wont on tho
balloon growing more md moro indistinct
to the naked ave F;nalI,, Mr. panis in
vited the reporter 10 ,ook nj II and thoupb
il had gone out of sight before he looled
he saw IT sailing away into the c'o,da
and found that bv turning the ,pstru.
ment il could he brought directlv in limo
with the center of two cross hairs
"There." said Mr.. Bemis. sis whore the
instrument is when we take the read,
ing"
After fourteen minutes of this u,ork
finally the observer said the balloon had
disap into the clouds and data
from that particular balloon uos al, In
sometimes said Mr.. Bemis. "thesa
balloons are watched for a distance of
40 900 feet but to-day the visibility is
bad"
Downstairs the committing was dona
which put the observations into the lam
guage understood by Iaymen. There II
was found that when the balloon entered
the clouds II was close TO five miles away
and $500 meters or around S.50o feet nm
Also that although the wind was blowing
at the rate of o6 miles an hour on surface
of the earth AT 800 feet II was bloyvinf, %
miles an hour and nj $500 feet "a miles
an hour. II also told the direction of the