The Warrington Examiner. — 1874-07-25 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

THR EDITOR OF TEM EXAMINER.  Sir,—l observe that your voluminous contemporary' in his last issue refers in terms of contempt to those newspapers who could stoup "to chronicle the cat strophe to l'oor M. Be Groof, "the flying man." The writer says that " the feeling that encourages men to do such utterly fool-hardy, useless, and highly danger ous things as to attempt to fly from a balloon is "n" temptible beyond redemption." The writer, wax`hg still more angry, goes on to say that "it is time that all right-minded people boldly set their faces agati!! this inhuman and debasing class of exhibitions, and that public sentiment should "not rest till stronger prohibitions deilvered us," S:e., `C44c. As, I imagine, you did not happen "stoop" to record poor M. De Groofs tragiCai adventure, and as—you must permit to sa readers of the Examiner scarcely get the'r fair shard° of the record of each week's sanguinary incident au adventure, I must acquit your contemporary of ail desire to .draw "odorous caparisons." Nevertheless' there happons to be another side to the Be (hoof case besides that which has excited so much " neutral" sad inconsiderate indignation. The Spectator in its last issue puts the 3aso in the following terms : "M. Grua was obviously sincere, for he trusted his own life to his invention, and is no more to blame than a physician who tries a new drug on or y.--the a diver who experiments with a new appazatu.s. Each may lose his life, but that is a risk which, supposieg him to be honest, end not to intend suicide, he llaait right to take. Ta take money for admitting Pace." to see such risks is a very different matter, and it is this, and not the experiment itself, which ought to be prohibited. M. Groot' was a martyr to mechanics, not a criminal, and if he had succeeded would have bee 4 acknowledged as a shrewd and daring discoverer. 't we go on at this rate, we shall imprison the Olt Livingsto'ne who goes to Africa with insufficiee While writing, permit me to quote the _Daily Yelcs on the subject. In a leading article in this dal issue (Friday, 24th inst.) the writer says Be Groof had come down safely, nothing would bale been said about interference; on the contrary,. scieva tilic poisons would have been interested, and svaltin have patronised him in a Jroper manner;" and lir". ceeds, ' Such exhibitions are brutal and demoralising when they draw together a crowd bent chieflY watching a man put his life in peril.„; It wonld,o rash to say, h )wever, that the majority of those We'll might go to such an exhibition would go for any shhe purpose. They might have a genuine interest--W e has not ? in aeronautic experiments. We obser.l. that a number of scientific gentlemen are row aviht. big at Woolwich certain experiments in steering a -fler loon which are to be made by an inventor who is till ,8 the patronage of the War Office. We sincerely that no accident will occur to this inventor, beats', the Legislature might be asked to deal with this clas of experiments also." Sir, we owe much to our newspaper writers, ande° doubt their papers are invariably paved with gec'd :n tentions, but unless they are our guides he I philosophers, as well as our friends, their readers ars I --1 bound to give them a lesson as wall as take one. (Ite'  INITENTOB'  TORY SAYINGS AND TORY DOLNGS' To THE EDITOR Or