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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Fourth Day

Tuesday, the 9th (Mr. Ainsworths
MS.)-One p. m. We are in full view
Of the low coast of South Carolin..
The great problem is accomplished
We have crossed the Atlantic finely
and easily across it in balloon, God
be praised! Who shall say that any,
thing is impossible hereafter?"
The journal here ceases. Contin.
uing, however, Mr.. Poe's remark.
able story asserts:
Some particulars of the descent
were communicated, however, by Mr..
Ainsworth to Mr.. Forsyth. 1t was
nearly dead calm when the voyagers
first came in view of the coast which
was Immediately recognized by both
the seamen and by Mr.. Osborne. Tho
latter gentleman having acquaintance
at Fort Moultrie, it was Immediately
resolved to descend in its vicinity The
balloon was Brought over the beach
(the tide being out and the sand hard,
smooth and admirably adapted for
descent) and the grappler let go which
took firm hold at once.
The inhabitants of the island and
the fort thronged out. of course, to see
the balloon, but it was with the great
est difficulty that any one could be
made to credit the actual voyage, the
crossing the Atlantic The grappler
caught at p. m, precisely, and tbus'
the whole voyage was completed in
seventy-fve hours, or rather less,
counting from shore to shore No
serious accident occurred, no real
danger was at any time apprehended.
"The balloon was exhausted and
secured without trouble, and when the
MS from which this narrative was
compiled was dispatched from Charles
ton, the party were still at Fort
"This is unquestionably the most
stupendous, the most interesting and
the most important undertaking ever
accomplished or even attempted by
man. What magnificent events may
ensue, it would be useless now to think
of determining.
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Extra Balloon Crosses Atlantic in Three Days! Extr
A PROPOS of the sensational
IN ocean flight now in prog
Il n ress, it is interesting to re-


4 N ress, it is interesting to re-
call how. about seventy-five
years ago, Edgar Allan Poe de-
scribed an imaginary air flight
across the Atlantic and to compare
the facts as the flying men of to-day
will record them, with the fictitious
sensations narrated by the poet of
far yesterday.
The story of THE Balloon Hoax"
was, according to Frank NJ.
O'Brien's story of "The Sum- writ
ten at q time when the authors
fortunes were at their lowest ebb,
and when it was absolutely essen
tial that money be forthcoming.
Starvation stared him in the face
He had only little over 81 in
the world. The newspapers seemed
to him the most likely field. His i'm
agination, stirred by passing car
rier pigeon, conceived the story
which appeared in The Sun" of
April 10, 1874 Needless to say, it
caused a sensation, and as its author
described it afterward, the rush for
papers was something prodigious.
The story (to which was accord
ed an extra) was adroitly advertised
beforehand. Beneath a black-faced
heading that was supplemented by a
woodcut of three racehorses flying
under the whips of their jockeys and
the subtitle BY Express writes
Mr.. O'Brien, appeared the follow
ing:
I'VE stop the press at late hour to
announce that by a private express
from Charleston, South Carolina, we
are just put in possession of full de-
tails of the most extraordinary advent
ure ever accomplished by man. The
atlantic Ocean has actually been
traversed by balloon, and in the in
credibly brief period of three days!
Eight persons have crossed in the
machine, among others Sir Everard
Bringhurst and Mr.. Monck Mason. We
have barely time now to announce this
most novel and unexpected intelli-
gence, but we hope by 10 this morning
to have ready an extra with q de-
tailed account of the voyage.
"P. S.-The extra will be positively
ready, and for sale at our counter, by
10 o'clock this morning. 1t will en-
brace all the particulars yet known
We have also placed in the hands of
an excellent artist representation Of
the Steering Balloon which will &C
company the particulars Of the voy-
age"
The promised extra bore head
of "stud-horse type, six banks in
all, and as many inches deep"
Astounding News By Express,
via Norfolk" it announced:
The Atlantic Crossed in Three
Days!-Signal Triumph OF
Mr.. Monck Mason's FLYING
Machine!y!-Arrival at Sui
livan's Island, Near Charles
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
These Were Headlines Way Back in 1914. They y
Gave Folks Big Thrill. But 1t Turned Out To
Be Hoax to Keep Poet From Starving

doubt aided our progress materially.
AS the sun went down the gale
freshened into an absolute hurricane
and the ocean beneath was clearly
visible on account of its phosphores-
cence. The wind was from the east
all night and gave us the brightest
omen of success
eve suffered no little from cold
and the dampness Of the atmosphere
was most unpleasant, but the ample
space in the car enabled us to lie
down, and by means of clothes and
few blankets we did sufficiently we'll.
"P. S. (By Mr.. Ainsworth) THE last
nine hours have been unquestionably
the most exciting of my life. | can
conceive nothing more sublimating
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Fairly at Sea

cat half past eleven, still proceeding
nearly south, we obtained our first
view of the Bristol Channel, and in
fifteen minutes afterward the line of
progress on the coast appeared i'm
medlately beneath US and we were
fairly out at sea.
We now resolved to let off enough
gas to bring our guide rope with the
buoys affixed into the water This was
Immediately done, and we commenced n
gradual descent. In about twenty min
utes our first buoy dipped, and at the
touch of the second soon afterward
we remained stationary as to eleva-
ton.
I'VE were all now anxious to test
the efficiency of the rudder and screw.
and we put them both into requisition
for the purpose of altering our direc-
tion more to the eastward, and in a
line for Paris By means Of the rud-
der, we instantly effected the neces-
sary change of direction, and our
course was brought nearly at right
angles to that of the wind. When we
set in motion the spring of the screw
we rejoiced to find it propelled US as
rapidly as desired. Upon this we gave
nino hearty cheers and dropped in the
son bottle inclosing slip Of pnrch-
ment with a brief account Of tho prin-
ciple of the invention.
Hardly. however, had we dono with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

our rejoicings when an unforeseen &C
cldent occurred which discouraged US
in no little degree. The steel rod con-
Meeting the spring with the propeller
was suddenly jerked GUY of place at
the car end (by q swaying of the car
through some movement of one Of the
two seamen we had taken up) and in
an instant it hung dangling out of
reach from the pivot of the axis to
the screw. While we were endeavor-
ing to regain it our attention being
completely absorbed, we became in
volved in a strong current of wind
from the east, which bore US with
rapidly increasing force toward the
Atlantic.
1--WE soon found ourselves driving
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diary kept by the flying crew, reads
as follows:

diary kept by the flying crew, reads
as follows
Saturday, April the 9Th. Every
preparation likely to embarrass us
having been made over night, we com
mencod the imitation this morning at
daybreak; but owing to thick fog
which encumbered the folds of the silk
and rendered it unmanageable, we did
not get through before nearly II
o'clock. Cut loose then, in high spirits,
and rose gently but steadily with
light breeze at north, which bore us in
the direction of the British Channel
Found the ascending force greater than
we expected, and as we rose higher
and SO got clear of the cliffs and more
in the suns rays our ascent became
very rapid.
81 did not wish. however, to lose gas
at so early a period of the adventure,
and so concluded to ascend for the
present. We soon ran out our guide
rope, but even when we had raised it
clear off the earth we still vent up
very rapidly.
THE balloon was unusually steady
and looked beautiful In about ten
minutes after starting the barometer
indicated an altitude of $4,000 feet.
The weather was remarkably fine, and
the view of the adjacent country-a
most romantic one when seen from any
polnt-was now especially sublime
A.
the numerous deep gorges presented
the appearance of lakes on account of
the dense vapors with which they were
filled, and the pinnacles and craqs TO
the southeast piled in inextricable
confusion, resembled nothing so much
as the giant cities of Eastern fable.
We were rapidly approaching the
mountains in the south, but our ele-
walton was more than sufficient to en-
able us to pass them in safety
I'm a few minutes we steered over
them IN fine style, and Mr.. Ainsworth
and the seamen were surprised at their
apparent want of altitude. When
viewed from the car the tendency of
great elevation in balloon is to
reduce the inequalities of the surface
below to nearly dead level
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This the rship which

ton, of MIR. Mason, Mr.. Rob-
ert Holland, MIR. Henson, MIR.
Harrison Ainsworth and Four
Others in the Steering Bal.
loon Victoria, After Passage
of Seventy-five Hours From
Land to Land-FLn Particu-
lars of the Voyage!!!
The head was followed by this
introduction:
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than the strange peril and novelty
of an adventure such as this May
God grant that we succeed ] ask not
success for mere safety to my insig
nifcant person, but for the sake of
human knowledge and for the fineness
of the triumph
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

Monday, the 9Th (Mr. Mason's MSD-
This morning we had again some little
trouble with the rod of the propeller,
which must be entirely remodelled for
fear of serious accident--I mean the
steel rod, not the vanes The latter
cannot be improved.
"The wind has been blowing speed
lily and strongly from the northeast all
day, and so far fortune seems bent
upon favoring US. Just before day we
were all somewhat alarmed at some
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Sail On! Sail On!
And On!''

"Why nom not eUen God qUouId knoau
Should and oil my men fall dead.
These ue'>y soi,ads forget their aVay,
For God from these dread seas is
gone.
Noa0 speak, braoe Admiral, speak
and say"
He said: "Sail oni sail onl and
onp'
They sailed. They sailed. Then spoke
the mate:
This mad sea shotus (ts teeth to-
night.
He curls has lip, he lies In svuit,
With lifted teeth as If to bitel
Brace admiral, soy but one good
Word;
What's all e0e do 40hem hope is
gomez"
The soords leapt as yeaping s4oord:
SAL on! soil or,i sail on! and ON p
Then, pale and ,ooam, he kept his
deck,
And peered through darkness. All,
that night
~ all dark nights! and then speck,
A light! A light A light! A light!
1t 9reao, storlit flag unfurledi
1t grea0 to be Times burst Of
damn.
He gained a soorld; he gave that
1Corld
Its grdndest lesson "On and N, :"
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" EHIND him lay tho gray
LIZ Behind the Gotes Of Her.
cMles;
Before him not the ghost Of shores,
Before hin, only shoreIess seas.
The good mate said: "NoeU mast sve
pray.
For loi the very stars are gone.
Speak, Admiral, aOhot shall / say?"
why, sag Sail on! sail onl and
ont"
My men groto mutinoue day by day;
Ny men groro CHASTITY ,ocn and
weak"
The stout mnte thought Of home; a
spray
Of salt aoove crashed his swarthv
cheek.
What shat I sou, braue Admiral
say,
II ne sight naught but seas at
down?"
Why, you shall say at break Of dan.
SOIL on sail onl sal on and
on
lhey sailed and sailed as 1rinds
!, might blov
Cntd a last the blanched mate
s0id
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sells of various kinds and all seem to
be delightfully."- astonished. Crossing
the ocean in balloon is not. such
difficult feat after~all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

out to sea at the ra,e of not less GER
tainly than fifty or sixty miles an
hour, so that we came up with Cape
Clear at some fcrty miles to our
north before we had secured the rod
and had time to think what we were
about.
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The Story Itself

But to return to the story itself.
1t Is too lengthy to be reproduced
here in It's entirety, but the most in
teresting part, purpdrting to be the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

THE great problem Is at length
solved The air, as we'll as the earth
and ocean, has been subdued by
science, and will become a convenient
highway for mankind! The Atlantic
has been actually crossed in a balloon,
And this, too, without difficultv-with-
out any great apparent danger-with
thorough control of the machine-and
In the inconceivably brief period of
seventy-fve hours from shore to shore,
"By the energy of an agent at Char
lesion, S. c., we are enabled to be the
first to furnish the public with a de-
tailed account of this most extraordi-
nary voyage, which was performed be-
tween Saturday the sixth instant at
eleven A. NJ. and two ?. NJ. Tuesday
the ninth instant, by Sir Everard
Bringhurst, Mr.. Osborne, a nephew of
Lord Bentinck, Mr. Monck Mason and
Mr.. Robert Holland, the wcll-known
aeronauts; Mr.. Harrison Ainsworth,
author of Jack Sheppard ct cetera,
and Mr.. Henson, the protector of the
late unsuccessful flying machne-with
two seamen from Woolwch-in all
eight persons. The particulars fur
nished below may be relied on as au-
thentic and accurate in every respect.
as with a slight exception they are
copied verbatim from the Joint diaries
Of MIR. Monck Mason and Mr. Harrison
A ~
agent Is indebted for much verbal in
formation respecting the balloon itself,
its construction and other matters of
interest. The only alteration in the
MINIS received has been made for the
purpose of throwing the hurried ac-
count Of our agent, Mr.. Forsyth. into
a connected and ineligible form"
Ketr0ctiOn
The second day after the story
appeared "The Sun" made the fol-
lowing statement:
"The mails from the South last Sat
urday night have not brought con-
firmation of the balloon from England.
the particulars of which from our
correspondent we detailed in our extra.
We are inclined to believe that the in
telligence is erroneous. The dcscrip-
ton of the balloon and the voyage was
written with a minuteness and scen-
tific ability calculated to obtain credit
nNa al.
pleasure and satisfaction. We by no
means think such project impossible"
This was supplemented by an edi-
torial week later, replying to nu-
merous contemporary observations:
eve have been somewhat amused
with the comments of the press upon
the balloon express. The more intelli-
gent editors saw its object at once
On the other hand, many of our
esteemed contemp draries - those who
arc too ignorant to appreciate the
pleasant satirc-have ascribed TO US
the worst and basest motives, We ex-
pccted as much"
Regarding which Mr.. O'Bricn re-
marks: "The pleasant satire of
which The Sun spoke, was evil
IDENTIFY meant to hold up to view the
craze of the day for speed in the
transmission Of news and men"
The Story Itself
But to return to the story itself
1t Is too lengthy to be reproduced
here in its entirety, but the most in
| teresting part, purpdrting to be the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

This poem by Joaquin Miller is
not out of keeping at time when
the world is watching another voy-
age over the same course, though
in the air, and eastward bound.
The sun., 1919-06-15

housekeepers, you may be sure. The secret
I am coming to is the open fire. They
cook over an open fire in fashion which
regret to say is almost extinct in
America.
II watched Madame cook the entire
meal before me. Between times, she set
table in the same room-here the kitchen
rises to its highest function as the centre
Of the life of the manipulating on
snowy linen and shining silver and glass,
all the while carrying on all the duties of
a hostess IN conversation. The splendid
meal consisted of bread and onion soup,
a fine salmon trout, an omeIette aur fines
herbes, a roast, a salad and dessert Of
goat cheese, nuts and jelly. We passed
around a great loaf of war bread and
each cut off chunk as required"
If there be pernickety souls who think
that passage too material, here is one
showing his deep love of music, that is
aesthetic enough to suit the most precious
taste Grove had CHANGED upon an ancient
cloister and was seized with the idea Of
filling it once again with eight and life
and color and music" So with his army
comrade Mishka, a Czecho- Slovak, he
worked for several weeks arranging a
concert to be given in the place all draped
with the flags Of the Allies, the music and
singing furnished by Mishks's COM
patriots in the French army.
1t rained on the day of the concert, and
musicians and singers had to sit under the
cloisters. He writes:
"They sang their own anthem. .
The falling rain played solemn obbligato
to their hymn. A violinist played some
thing had never heard before, but the
sobbing violin held even the rough
soldiers breathless, so that the dripping
caves made the only other sound. l would
not wait for the finish, but ran away be-
cause I wanted to preserve the impression
the pleading notes Of the violin, the
siIvery bell like sound Of the drops of
water, the white wall glowing with warm
Light which flowed out into the dark court
The sun., 1919-06-15
"Pat" Grove Aviator and Friend of All the World
BY w. B. MCCORMICK.

WHEN man is called by every one
w who knows him out of his name
mot in disrespect but in affection" it is
only natural that curiosity should be
aroused as to the cause Of this rebaptism.
But after reading the letters Lieut.. James
Richard Grove, L. S. A, wrote to his
friends from England and France, and
which have been brought together and
edited by w. B. Chase, it is perfectly
easy to understand why every one who
knew him before he went to the war, and
to his death on the field of honor, called
him ''Pat" Crowe-aside from the cir
cumstance that the original Pat Grove
was person covered with disrepute.
There is a genial quality about that
Hibernian diminutive which obviously
fitted Groves nature. He was a man
with strong affection for his friends, a
deep seated love and admiration fof his
family and for his home; he took pro-
found delight in cookery and the graces
of eating; he had an eye for architecture
and domestic interiors; his devotion to
music went down into the well springs of
his soul, and he loved people and the open
road.
One may not have had the good fortune
to know the man In life and yet may
learn all this about him in reading the
letters that make up the volume called
Pat Crove, 4riator. Surely it is the most
unmilitary "war book" that has come to
The sun., 1919-06-15
JAMeS RlCHARp GROVE
PAT CROWE)

us as the result of the events in France
between 1914 and 1918. "Pat" Grove
went into the Air Service of the United
States Army in 1917 as he did every
thing else in life-gallantly, whole
heartedly, cheerfully.
Son of Confederate officer, soldering
seemed to come naturally to him, but
before 1917 he had been reporter on a
Memphis paper and afterward assistant
dramatic editor of THE Sun, later going to
a position with the National Bank Of Com
merce. He enlisted in the army early in
1917, was commissioned Second Lieu
The sun., 1919-06-15

tenant at Tours in July, 1918, and
met his death by falling with his airplane
upon the field of Issoudun on September
% Of the same year.
Between his arrival in England and
his death he wrote the letters printed to
his mother, his friends and to a few
papers where they attracted considerable
attention, even amid the great mass Of
war correspondence from Europe. Ex-
cept for the letters in which he described
his course of training as f1ier Grove paid
little attention to military affairs. And
when he did allude to such things he re-
veals himself as the cheerfullest soldier
in all France. He had no complaints to
make Of the weather, his quarters, the
manner in which the army was run, his
food or his equipment. In fact he grows
almost dithyrambic at times over his army
meals and his equipment, and the "grous
ing" of the average soldier was a thing
apart from his life.
He had known France as a tourist, and
he went back to it as q man goes back to
a country which he loves. He made
friends with the people and shared their
meals. He tramped over French roads
whenever he had days leave and set
down some charming impressions of the
lovely scenery in the chateau country.
His charm of manner made him a well
come visitor in the homes of people who
owned and Lived in these chateau1. And
one finds him noting how some flowers in
one drawing room matched the purple
curtains" But amid such social dis
fractions, including the delightful episode
with "Jacqueline of the Chateau" he did
not miss the distinctive types among his
comrades, as the reader will note in his
clever and amusing sketches Of Oakley, the
big sergeant; M'sieur Bates, the collector
Of rare and strange things, who figures as
the leading man Of the tale, entitled The
He'll in Helmet, and the inventor in
S'IOng, Stderzsle.
Allusion has been made here to Groves
admiration for good cookery, for domestic
architecture and for music. He gives US
a noteworthy glimpse of the two first
named tastes ina description of meal
he ate in the kitchen of an old French
mill:
81 was invited into the great kitchen of
the house, whose chief glory is fireplace
of monstrous proportions in which were
the brightest andirons have ever seen.
Madame had them from her mother, who
had them from her mother, and so on
back to the Middle Ages. There is a fine
beamed ceiling, and the Pickering freight
was reflected from FURNISHED pots and
pans. The French women are good
The sun., 1919-06-15

yard, and the faint outlines of the spire
almost lost in the mist"
On this impression we, too, run away,
carrying with us a memory Of a gallant,
tender, lovable and beloved soul, whose
spirit dwells over the field in France and
here in the hearts Of his friends.
PAT GROVE, AVIATOR. BY LIEUT..
JAMES RICHARD GROVE. Edited by w.
b. Chase Nicholas L. Brown $3.50.
The sun., 1919-06-15

"BIEBERs"-THE RARE AND CURIOUS
Book Shop" One East 30th Street (one door from
9th Ave.) visit will interest you.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-06-20
Counter stack"
Accusations
In u. s. Senate

Washington, June 19.-Debate on
the League Of Nations shifted to DO
litical grounds again today in the
Senate with a resulting furry Of
party feeling, which ended In an ad-
monition by the chair that Senate
rules must be observed.
The fare-up started when Sena-
tor Williams of Mississippi. a Dem
ocratic member of the foreign rela-
tions committee. charged that the
Republicans had stacked" the COM
mittee against the League. Senator
Moses Of New Hampshire, a Repub-
lican member. made a spirited denial
and Senator Mccormack, Republican.
Of Illinois. declared the Paris peace
mission had been stacked" with
Democrats.
Other senators quickly got into the
discussion and still others asking
recognition, when Vice President
the discussion, which had interrupted
a speech by Senator Thomas, Dem
ocrat. of Colorado, was out of order.
The Colorado senator, then resumed
his address, directed against the
Knox resolution by which the Sen
ate would ask an opportunity to &C.
cept the Peace treaty without the
League Of Nations covenant incor-
porated. Senator Williams charge
followed one by Senator Thomas that
the Republicans first had put the
League into politics by the celebrat-
ed round. robin Of the first session
and were now condemning Demo-
cratic support of the League as par
tisan.