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EXCITING TRIP, LANDING SAFELY

Balloon Came Down in a Herd of Cattle, Just Missing a Barbed Wire Fence.

ST. LOUIS, April 27.-Aeronaut Allen R. Hawley of New York City made an ascension this afternoon in the balloon Orient and was carried 67 miles before coming to earth. He landed in safety seven miles east of Carrollton, Ill., after being up for one hour and 55 minutes.

The balloon came down in a herd of cattle in a meadow on the farm of Robert Hardcastle. Just before the basket touched the ground, it missed a barbed wire fence, barely clearing the barbs an sank down among the cattle, stampeding the herd. A team working in a field adjoining, took fright and ran away. Farmers hurried to the spot and assisted the aeronaut to pick up the deflated balloon, which was hauled to Carrollton, where Mr. Hawley will spend the night. He will return to St. Louis tomorrow.

Herald Boston.
28 ap-1907

AERIAL MOTORING NO LONGER A DREAM

One's Car Needs No Wheels and Wears No Roads That Invite a Tax.

In the days of Xenophon there was a philosopher named Archytas who invented a pigeon that could fly, but it is not recorded whether the ancients used a gas bag with which to lift the bird. The ancients possessed correct ideas regarding mechanics, and perhaps wrung from nature secrets which are unknown today. However, there are no records that they knew anything about balloons.

The centuries which handed down traditions of flying saints and flying dragons contributed nothing to the actual history of aerial navigation. For all practical purposes ballooning commenced towards the close of the 18th century.

In 1782, two Frenchmen

AMONG CATTLE

ANIMALS STAMPEDE AND ILLINOIS COUNTRYSIDE IS EXCITED.

ST. LOUIS, April 27.-Aeronaut Allen R. Hawley of New York City made an ascension this afternoon in the balloon Orient and was carried 67 miles before coming to earth. He landed in safety seven miles east of Carrollton, Ill., after being up for one hour and 55 minutes.

The balloon came down in a herd of cattle in a meadow on the farm of Robert Hardcastle. Just before the basket touched the ground, it missed a barbed wire fence, barely clearing the barbs an sank down among the cattle, stampeding the herd. A team working in a field adjoining, took fright and ran away. Farmers hurried to the spot and assisted the aeronaut to pick up the deflated balloon, which was hauled to Carrollton, where Mr. Hawley will spend the night. He will return to St. Louis tomorrow.

This was Hawley's seventh ascension. He expects to make another ascension Tuesday night, and two more later on in the east, as he is required to make 10 ascensions to qualify to act as pilot of the St. Louis entry in the international balloon tournament here in October.

Pioneer Press St Paul.
28 ap-1907

IS HE THE FIRST MAN TO FLY?

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(Drawn by H. W. Koekkoek.)

ORVILLE WRIGHT EXPERIMENTING WITH WRIGHT

There is much mystery about the doings of the brothers Wright of Dayton, Ohio, who claim to have solved the problem maintained so much secrecy, however, that it is impossible to methods. The illustration, it may be noted, is intended merely of Orville Wright on the glider, not to show the district in which are being made. The brothers Wright based their machine on a thirty years or so ago by a young Frenchman named Penaud.