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Ascension from Philadelphia Made in a Very Successful Manner 
[Special Despatch To The Herald]
 Philadelphia, Pa., Saturday. - From the Athletic Field of the Point Breeze Gas Works the monster balloon Initial sailed away at twenty-five minutes to one o'clock this afternoon without hitch or misadventune or any kind.
 Standing in the light basketwork car attached the the big gas bag were its owner, A.N. Chandler, president of the Philadelphia Aero Club, and Alan R. Hawley, an expert aeronaut, and pilot of the Aero Club of America. As the balloon left the ground the big crowd which had assembled to view the ascent cheered lustily.
 At first the balloon rose only about three hundred feet, but finding that they had struck an erratic eddy of the wind and were being carried toward the west Mr. Hawley quickly emptied a bag of sand, and the big ball of yellow silk shot upward some two hundred feet more, caught the right current, and was soon sailing toward
the southeast.
 Mr. Elmond Chandler, of New York, Leo Stevens, a professional aeronaut, and John Mack, his assistant, aided by half a dozen workmen, managed the delicate process of filling the balloon. Although nearly forty thousand cubic feet of coal were required to fill the shapeless mass of yellow wilk, the operation was accomplished in less than two hours.
 There was a further delay in starting, however, as Cortlandt Bishop, Augustus Post and N.H. Edwards, of the New York Aero Club, who made the journey from New York in an automobile, were a trifle late in arriving. Others who witnessed the ascension were Dr. Samuel H. Ottinger, an enthusiastic member of the Philadelphia Aero Club, and Mrs. Ottinger and Professor Samuel King, the oldest living aeronaut, and Mrs. Kin. 
 With the sure quickness of the long practice Mr. Stevens who has made over twenty-five hundred ascends, fitted the light basketwork car in place, adjusted the delicate instruments which record the height, speed and direction of the voyage, and then exclaimed:-
 "All aboard, gentlemen. The Initial is ready for her trip."
 Before the ascension the New York Aero enthusiasts spent a few minutes examining the Point Breeze plant and were quite enthusiastic over its facilities for the balloonist. Several of them expressed the opinion that this city offers better
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 Miss Kenny, the subject of one of the other pictures, is the chief of the English "suffragettes" who belive that only by disturbances and raids will the movement for women's suffrage be successful. It does not worry her to be dragged away to jail by a brawny policeman. She glories in the fact that she has been in prison several times. Miss Kenny is an educated young woman of good family who has been carried away by her enthusiasm for "freedom for women." The snapshot was taken the day of the great procession of suffragettes,
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