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Features of Cost, $72,000. Time in buildi- Style, cigar s- Motive power Weiglut, 7,100 Length, 225 Diameter, 40 Carrying capa- Lifting power It has six p- gasoline engine- It is divided cluding "connin fore and aft, different depar- It is to sail Its 225 feet hydrogen gas, thing straining that hold it cap- flying machine first voyage fro- Pleasanton, Co- "I have posit- -gation," says th- dark-skinned, lif- Prospect Camp. No. 11647. Modern Woodmen of America, held its regular semi-monthly meeting on Thursday evening at the camp hall in the assembly rooms. No. 153 Pierrepont street, with an unusually large and enthusiastic attendance. Five new members were initiated into the ranks of the camp, while several more propositions were presented. Prospect Camp is breaking all records in the number as well as the character of applicants for membership and bids fair to rival any in the greater city ,as it is already recognized as the leading and most progressive camps in the Long Islands Jurisdiction. The newly uniformed degree team is doing some first-class work and has helped to raise the interest to a high pitch among the members of the camp. State Deputy Harry Franklin, who was present, rendered valuable assistance in the impressive initiation ceremony, and in a brief address complimented the Foresters upon the efficiency of their work, and congratulated the camp upon its possession of such an able and enthusiastic set of workers, as well as upon the high reputation Prospect Camp has attained in woodcraft. the honors a- Amphion canum, has will in the on the list o- meeting wa- Lord avenue day evening -tendance. The Bov- the team h- lost thirtee- series, whi- tenth posit- The me- short orde- orator's c- -ments to wives and euch[]e, and- plaved and admitted to the efforts meeting r- with green March bein Stars and -prised the pleased the Sun New York 17 Mar 1907 A PRINCESS'S BALLOON TRIPS ONE OF THEM A WILD FLIGHT IN A HURRICANE. Princess Caetani di Teano and Her Party Carried Front England to Holland in Four Hours-Ballooning She Considers Safe and Pleasant in Spite of Mishaps. LONDON, March 7- One of the most ardent followers of ballooning is the young and beautiful Princess Caetani di Teano. Born Donna Vittoria Colonna, she is partly of English parentage, for her mother is the only child of the late Lady Walsingham by her second husband, the Duke of San Teadoro. Donna Teresa Carracciole, as this young lady was called, married when very young the Duke of Marino, now Prince Marc Antonio Colonna, the head of an ancient historic house. So Princess Teano, as she is generally called in England, has a good deal of English blood in her veins, which many perhaps account for her dauntless energy perseverance in all she undertakes. For she is as bold a rider, as vigorous a walker over Scotch moors, as untiring a dancer and as keen a motorist as she is an enthusiastic member of the Aero club. But her love of exercise and outdoor amusement in no way prevents her [[?]] in a balloon ascent is unkown, owing to the steadiness of the motion. Then there are all the new inventions for ascertaining the height and speed of the balloon and for regulating its descent. Of course, the old story of the painter who, when asked with what he mixed his wonderful colors, answered, "With brains, sir." holds as good in ballooning as in every-thing else, and a spoonful of sand withheld or thrown out at the wrong moment may lead to disagreeable, but experience soon teaches such details. The Princess tells of one ascent made last midsummer to [[?]] the sun rise which rather fell short of her expectation because she could not keep awake to watch the dawn as seen from a great height. But as all the party of four were in the full swing of a London season and its late hours, it is not surprising to hear that the two ladies immediately made themselves as comfortable as they could on the bags of ballast and [[?]] sound asleep. Indeed, she confessed that it was with much of the feeling of the traveller by an early train who fears Boots knocking at his door that she heard the loud cries of "There is the dawn," which roused her from a sound and delicious sleep, and that her first sensation was a sudden and ardent longing for a cup of very hot coffee. Whether the dawn came "Like thunder out of the China Sea" or not she did not say, but rather dwelt on the ease and premade on a mud flat, softer even than usual by reason of the deluges of rain, and the sea was only a hundred yards off, so there had indeed been no time to lose. Imagine the sensation of landing head downward in liquid mud in a raging storm and in pitchy darkness! Yet the dauntless Princess declared afterward that she would not on any account have missed the sensations of that night. Among them may be the classed that of not having the faintest idea of what part of Europe they were in. There was a raging sea a few yards off and there was the lighthouse, which it took them some time to reach, so coated with mud were they. At last they discovered they were on the coast of Holland, and even after they had struggled back to means of transit it took them twenty-four hours of ceaseless travel by boat and train to each Paris, the balloon having swept over the intervening space in four hours. It is not difficult to imagine the anxiety this adventure caused to the families of the aeronauts, and the Princess promised not to undertake any but safe ascents within easy reach of her English home. Curiously enough, however, the very next ascent, or rather descent was more perilous than any former one, though the distance traversed was only eighteen miles and the weather perfectly fine and calm. But the man in charge was neither so skillful nor so resourceful as the famous Jacques, and the passengers suddenly found themselves, still in the car but being dragged along a ploughed field, head downward. For seventy yards did they-as the Princess declared- "dig furrows with their noses," and the only wonder is that no permanent injury to sight or feature was done, for it seems that they were so entangled in the ropes that neither of the ladies could get a hand free to protect her face. It was all told laughingly, but one cannot help feeling that a tragic conclusion to that afternoon's excursion might easily have occurred. Still no risk seems to great to run in the pursuit of aerial travelling, and the domestic Cassandra is always met by assurances that the game is well worth the cangle, and that if every one was timid and cautious where would all the new modes of progression be? LADY CAETANI DI TEANO -vation of more sedentary tastes. Her- -more character of Corona in Marion novel of "Saracinesca" is drawn from a Donna Vittoria Colonna. Little is known in England of the devoted friend of the great painter, who was as good as she was beautiful, and that ni days when goodness was rarer than beauty. But in Italy her charming poems are still read and appreciated. There are a couple read and appreciated. There are a couple of pages of reference to her in Mr. Craw- -Immortalis," but he i- their re- checked in 1903 by Eti- backed by a courageous of the present Admini- seen the nation despo- -maining agricultural -ceptible of irrigation remaining treasures in mines. MODERN BUSINESS Shown in the Custom e-
