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FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E MOREHOUSE
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210 pounds. Ivy traveled with Baldwin through the east until they reached Japan. From there they returned to the United States where Ivy made some ascensions and jumps  at San Francisco in 1889. Apparently Ivy and Baldwin parted there and Ivy went on his own. He later walked a tight wire between Cliff House and Seal Rocks at San Francisco as a stunt.

During 1890 Ivy made balloon ascensions and parachute drops every Sunday afternoon at Elitch Gardens, an amusement park at Denver, Colorado. Using this place as his headquarters he also made other ascensions on weekdays that year. He evidently remained in the Denver area and later interested the Signal Officers of the Army Post at Fort Logan to organize a balloon corps. 

In 1894 Ivy enlisted in the Signal Corps, took his balloon there and made several ascents and instructed a few men in handling them. Some captive ballooning was also done during military maneuvers. Eventually the balloon deteriorated and became unusable, then Ivy and his wife made a new one in 1896, using silk provided by the army.

In 1897 operations were expanded at Fort Logan and another balloon was made. When war was declared with Spain in April, 1897 Ivy, with one of the balloons, was sent to Fort Wadsworth on New York Harbor to guard the approach against possible attack. Later he was sent to Tampa, Florida, then to Cuba before the war ended. 

In 1900 Ivy left the Signal Corps and returned to Elitch Gardens, Denver, and there he made an airship to be powered electrically by batteries to drive the propeller. The equipment was too heavy and the project was a failure, so he returned to hot air ballooning and parachute drops. 

In July, 1905 a local real estate promotor engaged Ivy to walk a tight wire across South Boulder Canyon to advertize a land development near Eldorado Springs, Colorado. The distance across was 635 feet and on his first crossing Ivy became blinded by the sun at about mid-point and he had difficulty completing his way on across. Later a sudden wind almost blew him off the wire and he was forced to hang by his knees until the blow subsided.

Between 1905 and 1928 Ivy wire walked the gorge 86 times for the land investment company at various times. During late 1908 he made a balloon in Denver,

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