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Launching: the Air Ship.
CASTING OFF THE MOORINGS FOB THE VOYAGE TO
EUROPE—UNEXPECTED COMPLICATIONS —
PROFESSOR WISES OPINIONS OF DON
ALD SON* 8 TRUMPERY -EX-MAYOR
hall’s OPINIONS AND MAYOR
HAVEMEYER’S MR.
HENRY HILLS
EXPERIENCE.
The number of persons who visited the
Capitoiine grounds yesterday to see the Daily
Graphic balloon greatly exceeded that of any
previous day. As many as a thousand men,
women, and children were gathered at one
time, and the aggregate probably reached
7,000 or 8,000. The unshapely folds of the
half-distended balloon still swayed within the
roped enclosure, and, excepting a newly-
opened and well-patronized lager beer stand,
monopolized out-door attention. Four men
were engaged during the afternoon digging
lour oblong holes at the four corners ot the
arena. A by-stander suggested that they
were graves for the four bailoouatics; but in
quiry showed that the holes w r ere to receive
posts for use in guying the balloon. Inside
the tent people pushed and elbowed their
way to the rope which enclosed the car, life
boat, canoe, etc. With funeral faces and
“Did I understand you to say,” asked the
reporter, “that you do notiutendto take the
car along ?’*
THE CAB TO BE ABANDONED.
“Yes,” said the Professor, “I shall leave it
behind. It would be usetess weight. Don
aldson has spent considerable time and
trouble on it, but it is all nonesense.”
“How will you ride?”
“In the boat. What would be the use of
taking a car or banket along when there are
seats in the boat. Besides, my plan will save
the trouble and danger of climing from the
car in case we have to leave the balloon. I
shall fasten the boat below the concentrating
ring, exactly as it was intended to suspend
the car. Around it I shall suspend a number
of two-hundred pound bags of sand as
ballast.”
Here the Professor drew a rough sketch of
his plan.
“You see,” he continued, “a great danger
lies in the boat being stove when it strikes
the water. By suspending the sand bags
below' it they would catch the force of the
impact, and save the boat.”
“But the boat would furnish very poor ac-
ommodation for four persons. Tne cockpit
is very small, and a ride on the deck
be rather hazardous.”
Before we are twenty miles from Ne 1
out ballast, and that would keep
her up for a while. But finally, when
everything weighty bad beeu tossed over, and
the gas had kept on weakening, the
balloon would sink lower and lower, until it
dragged in the water. The boat would then
have to go, because it weighs fourteen hun
dred pounds, and treed from it the balloon
would shoot up again. But it would be fool
ish to let the life-boat go, and all stay in the
car, because pretty soon it would sink to the
water again and there would be no means of
escape left. So, ns I have planned it out,
Professor Wise and the two others would get
into the boat, and the drags would be dropped
so as to hold the balloon as close to the water
as possible. When the boat touched the wa
ter they would cut loose, and leave me in the
balloon. That would take nearly a ton of
weight off, add I would go into "the clouds
again.
perhaps
I might theu fiuish the journey all right.”
“But suppose the waste ol gas should again
bring the balloon down ?”
“Then, as I’ve plauued it out, I would next
cut loose the car, aud still have a safe perch
on the ring above it. The canoe I would re-
ould kuu as a forlorn hope. Even if the ga3 kept
losing in quantity, I could still further light
en up by cutting off the lower part of the
York I shall have that deck cut away with an j cloth, gathering the net work together as I
bated breaths they watched the movements j axe. It never should have beeu put on any f did so. The cloth is heavy, and the effect of
of two workmen who were arranging the rig
ging of the car and boat until
arrival of Donaldson And Lunt
nished now lions. They brought their
carpet-bags picked for the start. The
latter is to go as navigator of the lifeboat.
He is young and handsome. He wore a jaun
ty little navy cap, and the ladies pronounced
him very sweet. While he tilled signal lan-
how, but it will be easy to hack a hole in it
the large enough to furnish sitting room.”
* ur ' 1 A FRIGHTFUL RIDE.
“Then yon intend to make the voyage in
the boat, without any protection against fall
ing over its low sides ?”
“I do."
“Do you not anticipate great difficulty in
terns, arranged charts, and dickered nauti- i f* Re ‘be balloon giving out, in successfully
callv. Donaldson nut the fnrnitnr* into the ‘auuclnng the boat and cutting It clear
les, there will be every probability of its
cally, Donaldson put the furniture into the
car. The outfit included razors, hair brush-
atlas of the world, a mounted globe, a band
mirror, and an umbrella. The people exam
ined everything with impartial interest, and
asked ludicrous questions. They were nota
the balloon will drag it on the
of the water; but it can’t sink, and if
we all cling to it, we can right it in case it
capsizes. For this emergency I shall have
i ropes attached to it for 11s to cling to, and
ii'le for their respectable appearance. Many ■ f“ ch mnu wil1 be provided with an ordinary
1 . 11 .. . - I lltfa m-KUerl-nr T ho .nnur t V... ♦ f ,1
came in carriages, aud nearly all wore cloth
ing that accorded with the latest fashion
life preserver. The dinger that I most dread
is that we may have to take to the water far
plates. Prof. Wise was the subject of gene- °?‘ ol . the < ’.°" r6e of steamers, and so not be
ral inquiry. He visited the grounds in the
afternoon with his son, and made a very cur- j
“ Who are to be the four passengers?”
“Besides Mr, Donaldson and myself, there
not remain long. At night the grounds were tJ Air. iMini, me na
illuminated, and several hot-air balloons. Haughton. The latter has come all the way
from California to make the trip, and he says
he will go if the balloon is as rotten as paper.
illuminated, and several hot-air balloons,
with trails of fireworks, were sent up.
THE GREAT EVENT OF TO-DAY.
gradually cutting it off at the neck, you see,
would be to reduce the size of the balloon to
the gas in it, and decrease the weight. With
nothing to carry but me and the paper canoe,
it could be kept up in this way until I struck
land, or saw a vessel near enough to pick me
up if I opened the valve and dropped into
the water. As a last resort, when there was
not gas enough left to keep up with, I should
take to the canoe. In fair weather, I could
make quite a voyage in her. You see I’ve
got it all fixed, if we should meet with the
kind of disaster that I i imagine. ”
INTERVIEW WITH THE HON. HARRY HILL.
“Talking about balloons,” mid the Hon.
Harry Hill in his academy yesterday, “that’s
where I’m at home. It has cost me six or
seven thousand dollars to know something
about balloons. What was that fellow’s name
—Chevalier—yes, that was it — Mons. Cheva
lier from France. He came to me and told
me a great deal about balloons. He said that
when he reached a certain height he would
strike a current of air that would carry' him
west—”
“West,” said the reporter in surprise.
East I mean,” said the Hon. Harry,
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FOR SEPTEMBER.
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Donaldson slept in the car of tne balloon j ions to go home in a way that will surprise known here. Don't
last night. At three o’clock this morning j his friends. I have told liiy three companions Why, he bad his legs broken and bis arms
under his direction the inflation of the huge of the unusual danger of the trip in the pres- broken. He was heavy on balloons. I loaned
tag was to be commenced. He says that, ent condition of matters, but I think they will him about $4,000 to varnish his balloon and
^there will be ample time to accomplish it be- ; go. As for me, if I am killed, I shall lose but j ** x op things. Everythin,
lore night,
fixed for a
grand go-up from Landman’s Park—that was
about lour yearn ago. I had gas pipes laid
| lour years of my allotted tbr*c score aud ten.
Prof. Stiner, an aeronaut, will assist in this 11 shall not withdraw lrom the enterprise. I. _ .. „
operation, which will be rather difficult. The the weather is fit to-morrow afternoon aud the I from Third avenue over to the park, and
slightest breeze will sway the balloon, and I balloon can be inflated, I shall go. The oth- | Chevalier promised to make four oi five —
j are young men. and their lives aro worth
elaborate preparations have been made to
manage the unwieldy bulk. One hundred , more than mine. They would be justified in | Then be was going off.
> that I might get my money back.
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1 bags weighing 178 pounds each, ha
been arranged in a circle around the bal
loon. Strong guy's will run from these
to the concentrating ring above the car.
From an inner circle o f lighter sand bags
guys will run to the netting. As the infla
tion proceeds this tangle of guys will hold the
balloon firmly in its place. As the top of the j bul'thry "have
ithdr
THE COST OF T1IE BALLOON.
“What has been the cost of the enterprise?”
asked the reporter.
“The Goodsells of the Graphic are clever
fellows,” replied the Professor, “and through
all the fighting we have not actually quar-
beeu too pecunious.
’hey put down the cost at $15,000 in their ad-
, a-l i »ertisements. Now, my estimate for a cotton
slacking the attaching ropes sufficiently to j kllloou _ wiLh aU the ^ Itnre8>
‘porter
balloon is lifted by the gas, the bn
sand will be cairie 1 toward the cen t
thus ;
give the balloon height enough to develop its
proportions. Finally the car—or the boat,
.should the car be lett behind will be fastened
t.» the ring, to which the ropes from the small you can
,10,i bag:; will alro be loosened end tied i * nd my " lf Iire not interested in the proceed:
then the ropes running to the heavy bigs will j T „ „„„„
vas betw
$4,000 and $5,000, and 8,000 for a silk one.
Much of the work and materials has been
given for the sake of the advertisement, so
at the actual cost. Donaldson
be cut one by one, until the balloon is held
by ropes tied to the four po>ts previously !
mentioned. Finally the signal will be given,
of the exhibition. In case we make the trip
successfully, we intend to make several as-
I censions from London and Paris. Upon the j ^
and then ip abe w'.ll fr». “That th* pr^ j reS‘ “so^oa^U my'ctam-e ! b "' k .{'“* 1
cram me. - y . . J . of mm, and lie jumped to New Orleans. I
■of gam, in either reputation or money, is in L J ~ ^ m
making the attempt fairly and honestly. :n
case it takes several days to fill the balloon,
as I somewhat fear it will from the size of
pipe they intend to use, the gas would lose
its buoyant quality, aud it would be folly to
try to cross the ocean with it. That is the
A Sun reporter found Prof. Wise in his room i only contingency that will prevent my going.”
yesterday afternoon. It was a comfortably “Do yon anticipate any conflict with Don-
Where,” asked the
“To Europe, ol course,” replied the Hod.
Harry, “and I was going with him. I dream-
i cd about that balloon, aud made up my mind
* that it was a dead sure thing. The first as-
j cension Chevalier made he took an English-
I man with him. That fellow paid $150 to go
; up. He was oac of Dunc.ui, Sherman & Co’s,
j friends, and I had to chuck him into the
i basket. I think the Frenchman was going
away without him. Well, that balloon land
ed somewhere on Long Island, and Chevalier
I ran away. I got the balloon, however, and
I brought it here. I was afraid the Frenchman
j would get away with i\
I got some of his creditors to sue him and
nie. »o that the sheriff could levy on it. Then
j I redeemed it and sold it lor $200. It was a
rousing balk on, made of silk. {Chevalier
me it cost $5,000 in France. He came
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MACON, C A,
As there seemed last night to be some
doubt whether the Graphic balloon
would start to-day, several San report
ers went out and felt the public pulse
on this great event of the age.
AN INTERVIEW WITH PROF. WISE.
“I had to pay his board bill before he went up,
and, — him, he made me buy a pongee lor
his girl belore he would go. Dou’t talk to
me about balloons,” continued the Hon.
Harry laughing, “that's where I am.”
THE BETTING.
furnished apartment, well supplied with fur- ; aldson ?” ^
niture and aeronautic pictures. On a table
was a valise, packed for the aerial voyage.
His neice, who has had charge of the sewing j
and patting together ot the balloon, was in '
the room.
‘Is it true, Professor,” asked the reporter,
Well,” said the Professor, laughing, “I
adapted
Apples, Peaches
Grapes, etc. Oi
Department is c-
“What do yon think about the Graphic bal- i found in a weli
loon?” asked the reporter. The Hon. Harry j h * ve tested ■
shook his head and paused. Theu he said,
‘I don’t believe they can get enon
SOUTH^PN NURSERY.
IRWIW & THURMOND. '
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nHE uudersigdcd is now prepared to fill
going to take a shot gun with me, and it j$. You see I was roped into Chevalier’s bal- i either local
he gets troublesome I will blow his head off.
AN INTERVIEW WITH DONALDSON.
I loon by a newspaper i
■ about it, and it looked
err. climate, consisting of
. • irs. ■, Linns, Cherries. Quinces,
Vi oral k;» l O r u •.!• »ntal Shrubbery
'18. W-* Uum erything usually
■ ii acted Nurhpr>, and of varieties
w t : mi.ted to the Southern
i ;e good stock and
u tie j g( ,u a t reaeoiiabl pr ny mail attended
gh gas lor I to with prompt! • i <• reliable agents,
lilies in this aud
v here convenient
ess through them.
P. H. WARD, Proprietor.
i Cherry street, will receive prompt attentiou.
He talked so much
other States Soi
. , . . , . i to our customer
bloody plausible j w e will, upon a|
A Sun reporter tnlked with Mr. Donald- ‘hat I put up for the Frenchman. Wise is | and price Hat. a,
■non the grounds yesterday. He is a kicking, ain’t he?” asked the Hou. Harry, stop- jalrir-dly
mi c
i gratis our catalogue
565, Atlanta. Ga.
A THURMOND.
“that you intend to withdraw from the balloon | bronz^. bardy man of forty. with the agility i ping short,
enterprise. .. .. . _ . and muscles of an athlete. He is an aeronaut i “I think
enterprise
‘No,” was the unhesitating reply: ** I shal
go-"
“ But it is said you are dissatisfied with the
construction of the balloon. ”
“ That is true. The balloon is defective It
has lain in the open air on the Capitoiine
grounds over four weeks, in spite of iny pro
tests, through day after day of rain, until it is
rotten. • Here is a sample of cloth which is
properly prepared. You will see that it ie
strong, although five or six times as heavy as
«ilk would be. And here is a piece ol the
*Luff that is put into the balloon.”
Ihe reporter examined it and tested its
strength. It bore a strain seemingly mnch
greater than that to which the balloon can
po>-ibly be subjected.”
VVhy they are keeping the boat,” contin
ued the Professor, “under a tent, for fear
that it will get wet—wouldn’t even have it
taken down to the river to test it—and yet
they leave the balloon oat in ail sorts of
weatb -r. I have owned a great many balloons
bat I a ver allowei one to be exposed a month
to the rain.
THAT BALLOON IS ROTTEN,
and I doubt if it will even bear the strain of
inflation. They call me a grumbler, when I
have simply been striving to take aU the ne
cessary precautions. I wanted a silk balloon
to begin with, but agreed to go in a cotton
one. Having promised, and my reputation
being somewhat at stake, I will go if they can
inflate it. ’
“ Why was the small balloon abandoned ? ”
“Because the cloth in it was worthless. It
was intended to carry a supply of gas to re
plenish that in the large balloon as required.
Its sections are too rotten to put together, and him.-'’
’ and muscles of an athlete. He is an a*ronaut
by profession, and has made many ascen
sions dangling from a trapeze. He did not
seem nervous in view of to-day’s venture,
and received the admiration and encouraging
words ot the ladies with great eoolness and
self-possession.
“Nothing but a gala will prevent the start
to-morrow," he said. “Ram will have no
effect on our plans. Neither will a moderate
wind, no matter from what direction. If we
should be blown a few hundred miles west
ward belore striking the air current, it
wouldn't matter. We shall get a report lrom
the Signal Bureau to-morrow morniug. If a
gale is not predicted, we shall go on inflat
ing, and, the gas once in, we must go. The
gas, you know, loses its buoyant quality too
quick to keep longer than we can help.
“Professor Wise told mo to-day,” said the
reporter, “that your car, your canoe, and the
bulk of your apparatus must be ^eft behind.”
Mr. Donaldson looked surprised aud incred
ulous.
“This is the first I have heard of such a
thing,” he finally said, “l’he Professor knew
all about the car being made, and never said
anything against it. He don’t seem to know
Lis own mind a day at a time. How is he go
ing to ascend without a car?”
“He says lie will attach the boat direct to
the balloon.”
Again Mr. Donaldson looked surprised.
“Well," he said, “if he says so, all right.”
Well
LEAVE THE CAR BEHIND.”
“Should Professor Wise withdraw from the
enterprise will you go to-morrow' without
he is,” answered the reporter.
So that’s the racket,” continued the Hon.
Harry. “My man kicked, too. Wise don’t
want to go up, and he’s a fool if he does. I
wish he would succeed, but I’ll bet $100 to
$200 that he don’t go out to sea.”
“Yop think he will go op, don’t you?” asked
the reporter.
“Doubtful,” replied the Hou. Harry. “My
man went up like a streak through the clouds.
McDaniel,
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COTTON WAREHOUSE & COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Cor. Pryor x Hunter^
sep2-lm ATLANTA, w.
The following is from the Coattanooga
Times:
On Monday morning last, John Long, a
desperado, well known in this city, and who
lives in McLemore’s Cave, Walker county,
Ga., passed by Mr. William Taylor’s farm,
w ho lives near Allen’s Springs, in Dade coun
ty. He (Long) called to Mr. Taylor’s son,
saying “pick a good watermelon and I’ll help
you eat it as I goon back.” As be passed
back, apparently on his way home, young
Taylor had the melon, and the young man,
his father and LoDg sat down in the edge
of the patch of woods, and were quietly eat
ing it, when suddenly Long pulled a pistol
from his breast pocket, and shot Win. Taylor,
Jr., deadband turned to shoot his father, but
the latter had placed a tree between him and
his Would-be murderer. Long then fired
what shots he had left sit Taylor, but none
took effect, and fled. It is supposed that the
murderer had heard of Mr. Taylor collecting
$5,000 ot the Federal Government si few days
before, and that lie intended to murder the
men and rob the house.
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a part of it now lies in the Navy Yard. It was
an important feature in the original plan, and
its abandonment materially increases the
risks. My instructions throughout have been
neglected. There is a good deal of what I
rail Donaldson’s trumpery that I shall leave
behind.”
WLSE ON DONALDSON.
“Has Mr. Donaldson had the superintend
ence of the construction V”
“Well, yes. When I associated him with
me in the enterprise I thought he was a prac
tical man. But I find that he isn’t. He is a
thorough good fellow—would lend me nine
dollars ont of his last ten—bat his only aim
is for sensationalism. If we make the ascen
sion to-morrow, in all probability he will go
up hanging to a rope, or in some way to make
the people shudder. He is a fearless dare
devil, and is willing to take any risk. He is
careless and foolhardy. But it is understood
that I am at the head of the affair, and that
he is subject to my orders; so there can be no
conflict of authority after we start. There is
collected at the show on the Capitoiine grounds
enough trumpery to weigh down the balloon.
The life boat itself weighs seventeen hun
dred pounds, and isn’t what I wanted. It is
a splendid one of its kind, and so provided
with air chambers that it cannot sink; but
what I wanted was an open boat weighing
aboat five or six hundred pound-*. The canoe
of Donaldson m will be left behind, together
with the car that he has had built, and nil
the life-preserving bedding and the like
trnmpery. The balloon is so immensely
heavy itself that we must not overload it wild
useless things. The VArnish has been sopped
du so thick, and it has become so begrimed
with sand, that its weight is something as
tonishing. ’
“What is the arrangement oi autboritj?”
“ Professor Wise goes as consulting scient
ist, myself as Captain of the air ship, George
Ashton Lunt as navigator of the life boat, aud
Mr. Haughton as Secretary. We have taken
every precaution,” ho continued, “but of
course something may happen that we can’t
anticipate. We ure going very high, and ex
pect to stay up longer than any other bal
loonist ever did. I don’t know as the gas will
hold ont long enough to take ns over. That
current of the Professor’s may not carry us
along as tost as we expect, and if it doesn’t, of
course we will be dropped in the water. Right
there comes in the greatest danger—that is,
getting the life boat afloat all right. If there
was a wind, the balloon would go careening
along close to the water, dragging the boat
pell rnell alter it, and perhaps smashing it.
You know bow difficult it is to launch a boat
from a vessel in rough water, and you can
imagine how much more so it would be to do
it from a balloon that is being swept nloug by
a wind.”
DON ALAN’S I’LANS,
“Of what use could your canoe be?” asked
the reporter.
“Well, I’ve thought this thing all over,’*
was the reply, “ana kind of planned out the
accident that is going to happen to ns. Of
course I don’t know as it will follow the pro
gramme that I have imagined that I have
dreampt it out over and over again. Let me
tell you how it runs in my head. Suppose
we don’t travel a* fast as we expect to in the
eastward air curicut, or don’t find any cur
rent at all, aud float about three or four days.
The gas would gradually ooza through the
cloth, and the balloon would begin to drop
into thicker air. We would then throw
)||t ! awl sr
The “gored water-proof cloak” is quite a iValitiu
new and dressy mode of making that useful ! k*>o«U
but somewhat dowdy aud common-place gar- j < ’" t ’
merit. It is really a double-breasted Gabnelle ; He| '*
polonaise, cut loose, and extending to the !
bottom of the dress. It has sleeves, pockets, j
a small hood, and a cape, double or single, ;
should be made, which may be worn or not, :
as desired, the advantage of this patern is j
not alone that it forms a dressy wrap, but that
it cm be looped up and belted in to form a
polonaise, aud iu linen is, in summer, the
most us-eful and protective of “dusters.”
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SUCCESSOR TO
Maiumon Dead. —Every tody who lived in
Kentucky during the terrible war time will
enia mber Bill Mammon, who was one of the
most dashing guerrillas of his day, and, it is
said, attained a high degree of popularity for
his great bravery among his dare-devil com
panions. His death occurred at the residence
of Mr. John Nichols, lour miles west of
Bardstown, on Monday. He was stricken
with cholera, and after a short but painful
suffering death ensu' d. Since the war he
bad beeu engaged in farming and cattle rais
ing in Nelson comity, and we learn, had be
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To Now York ami Return. Rood to 1st October.
MEALS ANT) STATE ROOMS INCLUDED.
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lace of the most valuable description. I- w».h j
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$fi00. The little child also wore diamond I
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NO TROUBLE IN ADJUSTING LOSSES OBLIGATIONS PROMPTLY MET.
Among the tunny, refers to the following persons, to whom losses have been j»aiil: Thom .
J. HiglUower, Samuel M. Inman, Dr. F. D. Thurman, M. J. Hirseh, William Rich, Wm
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