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1907. June 1 Tribune New York 18 Mar 1907 BANKER TO TAKE BALLOON TRIP. The balloon ascension which Alfred N. Chandler, resident of the Aero Club of Philadelphia, was to ave [[have]] made to-day at Philadelphia has been postponed [[?]] until next Saturday. When the ascension ade [[made]] Mr. Chandler will be accompanied by A [[?]] Hawley. The Philadelphia club has arran [[?]] the construction of a balloon shed, which e [[?]] te first of its kind ever constructed in ountry [[country]]. It will be finished in about a month. Tribune New York 16 Mar 1907, WOMEN BALLOONISTS. Some Who Have Won Distinction as Aeronauts. A remarkable feature in the present revival of interest in ballooning is the enthusiasm with which women are taking to the new sport. The fact is, however, that for more than a hundred years women have gone in for ballooning, and several of the fair sex have won positive distinction as aeronauts. People who say a balloon is "no place" for a woman either are not familiar with the really brilliant part women have played as balloonists, or else choose to ignore it. English women have from the beginning been ardent aeronauts. The first balloon that ever ascended in England, in 1784, held a woman passenger, one Mrs. Sage. And the first woman to make the aerial voyage across the English Channel was another English woman, Mrs. Griffith Brewer, who performed this feat more than a hundred years after the pioneer. Mrs. Sage took her courage and her life in her hands. Crossing the Channel one finds that a Mme. Blanchard in France displayed such masterly control of the balloon as to attract the admiring attention of the great Napoleon. In a fit of anger, Napoleon actually dismissed the famous expert, Garnerin, and appointed Mme. Blanchard "director" of ballooning in his place-an office in which she is said to have displayed consummate skill and to have justified amply the choice of her great master. In more recent times another French woman achieved prominence by her courage and the miraculous escapes which marked her adventures. She was Mme. Durnoff. She left Calais one day in 1874, apparently expecting the wind would carry her inland. But on striking a high altitude she was caught in a contrary current blowing out to sea. Finding herself being swept over the North Sea, she released the gas, which caused the balloon to sink till it floated on the top of the water, and the poor woman had all but consigned herself to death when a Grimsby fishing smack hove in sight and rescued her from her precarious position. Women aeronauts one and all laugh at the armchair critic who asks if ballooning doesn't make them seasick. It amuses them when some one suggests: "But suppose it should burst?" They won't admit that it is even dangerous. "Ballooning used to be dangerous," they will tell you, "but that was in the early days when ascensions were made with defective equipment and in ignorance of scientific principles. But when certain precautions are taken, which are applicable to all means of locomotion, ballooning is said to be perfectly safe. Of course, you mustn't go up when your barometer is falling fast, and you mustn't tie up the 'neck' of the balloon, or you will be pretty sure to come to an untimely end." Captain H. J. Coningham, writing on this subject in, "The Ladies Field," compares ballooning with yachting and railway travelling for safety. "we are not deterred," he says. "from railway travelling or yachting because isolated cases have occurred in which engineers and skippers have neglected their obvious duties; so why should the modern scientific aeronaut be put under a ban because a few harebrained aerial navigators have come to an untimely end in the past?" As for getting dizzy, balloon enthusiasts maintain that it is impossible to experience any uncomfortable sensations in a "free" balloon, for the reason that one is moving with the atmosphere, and that wind, unlike water, does not travel with a perceptible, wavelike motion. It is a strange thing that people who get dizzy on land, seldom experience dizziness when floating in a balloon. One woman aeronaut explained this on the ground that in a balloon there was nothing to compare the great height with-everything looked flat. Saturday at Baddeck 32 Chronicle Chicago Ill 17 Mar 1907 WELL & GO Furniture stocks, which are priced at 25% ----- France, being in alliance with have placed her advances in mil ling at the service of the latter. of wonderment, too, that the a Japanese nation, so forward in pertains to warfare by land or ingly indifferent to the possibi bomb practice, through their u loon at Liao-Yang for reconn have been but preliminary to it as an offensive agent. The first suggestion of the loon in warfare came from golfer, the French pioneer 1782 he proposed by this mean diers into the fortress to overp wish garrison which the Frenc were besieging. Twelve years lutionary government of Fra tenance to efforts to produce a used in warfare.
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