The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 7, 1905, Page 13

The short history of the most re- markable Aerial Exploration on rec. ord. Secured from and published with sllustrations made of the trip, by cour- tesy of The Technical World, Chicago. “Last fall I participated tn an experience that for its Condertul phases bay never been duplicated.” Joho nunett reached for his pipe, filled and lighted it, and then glanced toward me as if to ask if I wished to hear what be bad to divulge. He is a very remark man, of that rare type fast disappearin For more than half a ceatury he has w « bis home tn the heart of California’s majes- } tle mountains, and like the ‘Poet of the ) * Sierras.” he wears a fowl patriareca beard., and bair to match, and Is himself # student and a poet by nature, I settled myself in my chair with an ap- ' pfeciative nod, and Joho Bennett began what is truly a most remarkable story, oa th t Kraduate of Yale io California ‘and I taink it was this that brought to the ranch a party of scientists from my old university, 1 am not at liberty to_name them, for they are coming again to try another experi and until that bas been made, the whe thing Is a secret of theirs. It will not do any harm to tell as much as I Intend to, how- er. OR ney bronght with them a dirigtble bal. Yoon, and confided that they were going to , make ap ascent and study the topography of the SI je ! accurate map of the entire range, It didu’t turo out that way however, as you will se “In a. sort of superficial way T have al ways been Interested In acroy les_ and kindred sciences; aud when they asked me to mpany them as guide and compan | fon I accepted the invitation with alacrity, ‘We went farther up into the range, and -made camp. They took their machine out, | and began the work of ass bling the jparts; and I want to say here ¢ It was as C0 plete a thing as ever man made, Taere | everything calculated to make the trip as and every appliance to prevent ac- | i \fident. It's pretty cold up on top of the range above timber line, and arrangements had been made to prevent this condition; § from retarding the experiments. The ‘car) } of the balloon was made of Isinglass over a 4 “closed, and was heated from an electric motor, which also propelled the machine. Hydrogen gas was used as the lifting another motor, and ed and supplied to the occupants of the car when the atmos: | here became too rarifled fi fortable Breathing. rovisions e stored f he rty—enough to last six men a \ d when the ascension was made it seemed t not a thing had been o . All rts of anemometers, barometers and ther- meters were taken along, and everything ssary for the proper study of the con- tong that might confront the party after ying the earth, ‘Tt a sparkling morning when the jgnal was given, and we arose with a und and were soon soaring over the tops f the snowy peaks, Never shall I forget at efght as I gazed through the sides and tom of the transparent car, So bright as the sunshine that we were forced to raw the green silk curtains at some of the indows, Within five minutes we were oking down on toy mountains that were ropping away from us as a stove from the top of a tall building; and the atmosphere had become so rarefied that the xygen tank was opened into the car, and | heating motor was started. Far of, the west, we could see the tiny valleys, nd, still farther, an endless blue expat it marked. the Pacific Ocean. Many men e exulted {in the view from a balloon. ) gut few have ever had the experience of thaking au ascension to a helght above NMterenrrin BR&nernBrat err }to the curth by the great attraction of | accurately it was because of the com- | pusitien of Ne | ing b were more than sixty miles above Its sur- face. The thought staggered me; but oo we kept, the scientists wonderful progress. ! | less rapidly than prervionsty, and I hap- e upward through the sides imest fell over with aston- id scarcely get my voice pened to glan exulting at such e s Constant observations were belng made of every condition, and | all were jotted down for future reference; and still onward aad upward we seared for auvtier hour, “At the end of the third honr, T noticed | Q@ remarkable thing and called the attention of one of my companions to it. the earth had, as | have sald, been a blue- floated a tremendous globe whic! tly recoguized as a map of the continent of North America. almost the entire sky, and seemed but a few miles distant, while beneath us was what certainly was another earth, ‘Good gracious," exclaimed our lead- er; “we have made the greatest discovery of all the uges We have discovered an- other world, and are falling onto it, That globe off there fs the earth, and we have it and are about to land on another art pale gray,the latter color ; and, as I interested being toward the wes' my other fellow travelers In the sight, the western portion of the colored map was seen to grow la Hminisied In st could account for the phenomen tire Held of our yision was chav now tt seemed that only a portion of the old familiar blue remained, the pale gray | to I confess that his explanation did not explain; but he soon made himself plaluer any webulous bodies afloat out dde 1 ETT enemas mmm 80 as to be able to make an) vtck and found that Thad made the two of innumerable b | } si VJANe tgp tyogs ee ee ot aie Bilautes, | When, on the ot a poker Is Patt ppropriate t pine around this ball at tie rate of forty-tive thrust Into} which is be inser miles an hour: and tft your eslenttions already freely forth steam, t AN INEXPENSIVE and it Is eight miles in dl- introduction of iron by sti CIFT, COSTING ONLY i be about twentyetive mil furtber assisti stent producti n| ONE DOLLAR EACH. In circumference « thoret ir : : | nto hicket. buckles are Jdon't get wiided, etrele ft in less t causes the poker to became at once \ frame of aluminum. It was entirely en-| * sed Nae P ‘ her oe” 1 COULD JUMP SEVENTY FEET. having absorbed it had come the ott from the cast a ¢ p of the earth, a fact that all Some of these bodies are yall as pinheads, while others may be That this hist was cerreer was ev et how it had never been discovered | ‘There | by the earth's astronomers was a puzzle Then, as suddenly as! the atmospher By | selentists accept, blue shadow ti: pglng the colar again to its own, while | former colors v re no definite objects in sight, only monotonous dark » entire tield below us. that suum covered “That is a simple matter of explana- er been discovered, for nm that many stnall but important things | have been for years overloc tists In search Muing somewhat concluded to dese ated the machinery for motor did its work, and the of greater fields to Tt is within Jess thaa one hundred miles of earth, very uearest object that has ever attracted scopes of our astronomers distant a quarter of a million miles, not understand would ever train his instrnment so as to oe a8 object less than a hundred miles form. It changed its color from blue to blue and green, with bere and there a dazzling hat sounds reasonable, yet I asked it had never been him how it was that seen with the naked ¢ “**Stinpler still,’ hi this little planet fs less than te: answered, ‘heeanse t, color nearly id cal with that of the \earth’s atmospi and having no could not be seen at any time. ‘mere speck In the sky, and no man can how long {ft has floated around our {fully ten feet beyond the ed but for the present we , Ives to this on: aL sce what there “An anerold harometer was then fet throngh the trap in the floor, fn order to ‘rtain the pressure of the atmosphere re we dared to open the car and step o the little world we had discovered. » planet was growing Inreer every mo- ment, aud we were now within tess than pounds to the square inch, which about mountains on the s0 we were safe to mometer attached to the ear at this e showed an entire lack of breeze, and we gently dropped to the surface of the ‘Nebula,’ as I had volnnteered to enll the As we looked upon the land- seape, It seemed as if we had suddenly dropned into S--thern could not possibly justify this eond of verdnre with the small size of the tiny | world, for such a little thing could not be expected to obstruct enouech of the heat of the sun to produce such a condition. | Przzled, I myself dropped a thermomete through the trandoor and noted Its ree. ister. It was elghty degrees—a further surprised me—and Y sata “**T dare say we shall find that there | are other sonrces of heat besides the sun, | sald one of my companions: | sooner had we opened the car door and beenn to climb down the anchor rope, which had been cast out, than we dis. covered the correctne: | There were bollin; | and_the verdure {ranch next morning. itor (Dine. T watted for him te eantinne ovr little world \ the way. ss of his prophecy. ig springs everywhere, nd was magnificent. Tying the anchor rope ahont a howl der, we began a snrvey of onr world. Bot first of all, T took a good look at the art had left a td honrs before, w a more magnificent won eat even Ry zg sight than entire dome of the sky, and the of North Amorion looked exactly an it does on & raised glohe in gchool-rooms. Franciseo as we! Tt filled almost the such as we have I conlde locate San if T bad had a map tropolis cori tra te cain ar ‘the ce ine of the United States to the ef Chi 5 go on to the Piadoay En ros not so Bi “ae ty be bend ton; re 7 to mountain eondition: ¥ eee the rope—! The alr was s OUNTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA FILLED THE DOME OF THE SKY. the illusion that there is any ‘‘silent vote." that indicated water: territory was wholly uni of us, even ta me who know thes» m felt wonderfully elated in mind and body. and ran lightly toward ft, falling chest, and quenching my thirst with most refreshing woter T had ever drank uncomfortable hut weather is over, toward a plain. but of course you are fa- millar enongh with aerostatics to that the sensation is that of being station- the earth does the moving. In the seems moving except the ball In an hour we had fallen in an entirely strange re- was familiar, and we beyond the mountains The leather, and it Is sald that in consequence, the kicks of the cousumer do not burt. The for putting a love potion in her husband's coffee meal a day ts enough for the ave: man. / SS Deubtless at W. A. prices oe lows a well-known natact! law gravitat the little p@iet was @ as mueb thaw tbat Ot the e its size, aud i weighed—had as provided wut tea pounds, b my wu it was nothing veuty or elghty feet, the ditl culty % Ww keep om tue ground at ail. “Now, L suppuse you aie wouderiug bow it was tial the piauct was nut drawe LADIES THIS Handsome Fur dearl GIVEN AWAY and address and we w the latter budy. It tuvk Lie scientists less than Ove wiuutes to delermine Lue reason ja, Sucu lugredieuts bay b put together iu its formation as to repel tue advances of the earth toward a upion, but not en bh to drive Lhe lit tle fellow alt her away from a motherly protection. He had come with in a certain distance, beyond which ibe could not pass. My companions called me back, as they wanted to make some calculations, aud I sprang back as easily as T had fumped acrors, “By looking at the earth, ther had dis- covered that we we traveling around that planet from east to west, while it turned over from w bined motions in epposite our speed about twe thon hour, so that we shonld circle the every twelve hours, This calentat was of the greatest Importance, since we would have to time our departure ac- enrately in order to land where we wanted to. If we allowed onr balloon to ascend at the wrong time, tt) was ust | as likely that we shonld find ourselves | over an ocean as over the land, and jost as Ukely over Afr as over srlea ro Jee were jotted down, and we then | » - determined upon an exploration of our} , .opypr “\ kingdom, : | TRY THIS EXPERIMENT, | VAC thle potnt T did some Aguring ms | self. 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