The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1920-05-14

loonsts like Henry Gaisher and his assistant.
James Coxwell, both Britons. who in September.
1862 rose to an altitude calculated by them as
about seven miles, which higher than that
attained by Major Schroeder, the American flyer.
in his recent sensational Jump at Dayton. o.
Glasher's experience was especially valuable
from the standpoint of the person who wants to
know what 1t is like up there" because the aspi-
rator quit working at altitude of five miles.
Writing for the British Association for Balloon
Experiments to what happened after reaching
the fve-me level he said:
up to this time had taken observations with
comfort. and experienced difficulty whatever
In breathing.
"Then. having discharged sand. rose still
higher. The aspirator became troublesome to work
and l began to find difficulty in seeing.
could not see the column of mercury in the wet
bulb thermometer, the hands of the watch.
the fine division of any instrument.
shortly after laid my on the table, pos
sessed of Its full vigor. but being DESTROYS of
using it little .ater found it powerless tried
to move the other arm; found it powerless also.
tried to shake myself and succeeded, but seemed
Rave limbs.
II dimly Mr.. Coxwell and endeavored to
speak to him but could not Then, in instant,
intense darkness overcame me, that the optic
nerve lost power suddenly, but | was still
scious with active brain at the present
moment, while writing this l thought had been
seized with aSphyxia and believed I should ex-
perience nothing more. as death would come un-
less speedily descended; other thoughts
entering my mind when l suddenly became uncon-
sciOus.
IL cannot tell anything of the sense of hearing.
as sound reaches the air to break the perfect
silence of the regions between six and miles
above fhe EARTH"
The balloon finally began to descend after Cox
we'll. who retained consciousness even longer than
his chief. had managed to pull the waive rope
his teeth.
Both men RECALLED consciousness after the bal
loon had descended several thousand feet and
they managed to make assafe landing.
Two facts having. direct bearing on the uues-
ton as to atmospheric conditions above the earth
established Ly them. One is that sounds
like that made by passing railroad trains still
be heard at height Of about four miles. but that
at six miles there is perfect silence.
The other is that up to certain point scientia
cally referred TO the level where Inversion of
atmosphere occurs the fall of the mercury ay-
erages about one degree Fahrenheit to<every 300
feet.
In April 1875. NJ. CASTOR Tissandier and two
/. companions confirmed these findings when they
rose from Paris m balloon a height of nearly
six miles, but in this case the expedition was
married By the fact that both companions Of NJ It's
s;ndier. having less Stamina than he the Brit
sh aeronauts. died before the gas bag returned
the ground
If further confederation is desired as to con-
ditons they exist the first lap" of the aerial
journey into the void they can be had from the
experiences of the aviators who since the advent
of airplanes. have tried to reach the lid Of the
worlds atmosphere"
Two of the most prominent of these at least
among the American aviatOrs have been Major
Schroeder and Roland Rohfs, who have engaged
in unique contest for highest records above the
: clouds.
Major Schroeder in his flight few weeks ago at
tanned an altitude of 5000 feet, at which height
hts thermometer registered % degrees below zero
tentgrade. or g. degrees below Fahrenheit.
So, in his case. well as in that of Rohlfs when
he reached $1,000 feet in July last. and thar Of
Adjutant Casale,sof the French army who rose a.