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Standard-Union
24 Nov. 1906 Brooklyn NY.

HOW IT FEELS TO GO UP IN A BALLOON

"The American Magazine" for November includes an article on "Sky Sailing, the New Sport" that presents a wonderful account of the sensations experienced by the balloonist.  Here is a picture of how you feel as you leave the earth on your first ascension:
"'Let go, everybody!' shouts your pilot, and the first of a series of strange phenomena strikes you.  For it is not as if you were moving upward or leaving the earth.  It seems as if the earth is leaving you.  Your balloon seems to you to be standing perfectly still as if held suspended by an invisible hand while the earth recedes back, back at a startling rate.  You look over the top of your basket at the people with whom but an instant before you were rubbing elbows and you gaze into a multitude of upturned faces cheering themselves blue and at a forest of arms waving hats and flags and handkerchiefs.  Even as you gaze, the faces blur and fade, while the decreasing noise of the cheers gives you an idea of the rate at which you are soaring skyward.  And still you cannot feel that it is you who are traveling away and not the earth.  You do not feel the least sensation of upward movement of the sort you feel while in the elevator of a hotel or office building.  On the contrary, so indescribably smooth and easy is the motion that there seems to be one at all, and were you blind-folded and were it not for the receding sound from the crowd below, you would not know that the balloon had left the earth, and you might be tempted to step overboard into space."


Citizen Brooklyn
[[2?]] Nov. 1906.

MAKING WAR FROM THE SKY
Interest in the possibility of aerial navigation was somewhat quickened a few days ago by the lecture of Col. J. D. Fullerton of the Royal Engineers before the Royal United Service Institution in London, Eng., and the discussion in which Major Baden-Powell, Sir Hiram Maxim and others took part.

It seemed to be the purpose of all present to invite the Government's attention to the apparent progress that is being made in air navigation in other countries, so that it might not

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ANNAPOLIS, Md., Nov, 24--The mid-shipmen to-day played the last home game in preparation for the great game with West Point on Saturday next, The opponent to-day was Virginia Polythenic Institute. The Techs developed surprising strength and the jocks could do was score one touchdown in twenty-five minutes of play. This came after working the ball steadily for thirty yards.

CHADWICK TO SULLIVAN. 
The newly elected president of the A.A.U. of the United States, James E. Sullivan has received numerous cablegrams, telegrams and letters congratulating him upon his election. The one congratulatory

Journal [[?]] 
24 Nov. 1906

Le dirigeable a Patrie
-- 
Une nouvelle sortie

Le dirigeable militaire <>, continuant la serie de ses sorties d'essai, a effectué hier matin, une ascension libre qui a permis de constater a nouveau la stabilité et l'équilibre parfaits de l'aerostat.
L'ascension dans des conditions climatériques assez défavorables causées par la depression barométrique actuelle, a été décidée a l'improviste.
Sorti de son hangar a huit heures, le ballon a quitte l'aérodrome de Moisson a 8 h. 20; après avoir évolué en tous sens en suivant le cours de la Seine jusqu'a Bonnières et en le remontant ensuite jusqu'a Vetheuil, il est revenu a son point de depart a dix heures et demie.
Six personnes avaient pris place dans la nacelle: le lieutenant Bois, du 1er regiment du genie, commandant du bord; M. Juchmes, pilote des aeronauts Lebaudy; les électriciens Deguffroy et L'andin, et le cordier Dubuc.
La premiere partie de l'ascension a été conduite par le personnel de MM. Lebaudy, sous la direction du pilote Juchmes; la seconde partie par le personnel militaire, détaché a Moisson par le ministère de la guerre. 
Dans cette seconde partie des experiences, c'est le lieutenant Bois qui tenait le volant de direction et qui a ramené le ballon a l'aerodrome.
L'ascesion a été faite entièrement sans aucune dépense de lest.
La période d'essai va se continuer.


Eagle Brooklyn 
25-Nov 1906

HOW A BALLOON IS MADE.

The Modern, Scientific, Practical 
Kind That Makes for Safety.

The chief amateur balloonist of America is Dr. Julian P. Thomas, of New York. He has written in Appleton's Magazine some thrilling escapes. Incidentally he says:
"It may interest the reader to hear something about the construction of a big modern balloon, and it equipments. It is made of what is know as a balloon cloth, which sometimes is of silk, and is sewn in small sections of about a yard square, so that if one of the sections should burst the whole balloon would not collapse and destroy the aeronaut. 
"At the top of the bag is the valve to let the gas out when one wishes to descend. A rope opening it runs from this valve through the center of the balloon to the operator in the basket. The balloon is filled through the neck, and this is left always open, so that when the gas expands, from the heat of the sun or lesser pressure of high altitudes, the gas may escape and not burst the envelope.
"As soon as the balloon is sewn together it is blown full of air and given three coats of varnish. Each coat must be allowed to dry thoroughly before the nest is applied, or else they would never become perfectly dry and the balloon would be likely to be destroyed at any minute from spontaneous combustion. This spontaneous combustion is not a bursting into flame, but a kind of exceedingly quick dry rot. I myself have lost three balloons through it. Once, in my factory, we were looking at a beauty, when some one sniffed the air and remarked: "Thomas' balloon is gone,' and so it proved to be. Five minutes saw it destroyed--rotten, so that you could poke your finger through it.
"Sometimes the balloon is affected in only a few sections, and a man may make and ascension thinking his balloon is all right. Protected by the fine netting which envelopes the balloon itself, he may even get up to some height before discovering his danger. In former times there were many fatal accidents from this cause.
"When a balloon is packed, talcum or some other powder is sprinkled over the folds to keep them from adhering to each other. If this is neglected the balloon will be ruined, especially in hot weather. 
"As I said, the fine netting covers the balloon proper, both to strengthen it and to [[??]] the weight of the basket and its  


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