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Mi*. a'. fclor.Ijvook Wr!'o,s ci Ilcv/ It Feels Way up in the Air? What the yensation is When Aeronaut Outs Away In Parachute ? Drop to Earth. I ] Augusta Chronicle. That anything unusual or out of ' tho ordinary would occur in connec- ' tion with the balloon ascension at tho 1 fair grounds yestorday was not known ' to the fair management, tho news pa- 1 para or any of the public. But it was ' unusual and decidedly out of tho or- ' dinary. In fact, there were but two i people in nil Augusta who knew of s any idea of a chango in tho balloon 1 | program, up to within a very few minutes before the timo scheduled i for the ascension, then a third party 1 was taken into confidence by Mr. t Broadwick, tho balloonist, when he : told the chairman,'of the amusement committee of the fair grounds, and \ that made confidential. The regular announcement, as per j tho contract' with tho fair poople was | ttrat Mr. Broadwick would make the f ascont and dead paraehuto drop of | 500 feet beforo tho big umbrella af- . fair opened after leaving the balloon. . That's what thousands of pooplo ex- , poofced to seo as a part of the after- ( noon program, and what many of < ilhom went to tho fair grounds ox- r , proesly to seo. Had there boon any ( V intimation of what was to take placo , ' thore would have been moro people, ( beyond a doubt, but' tho treat came j in tho surprise. I The balloon and trapeze were pre- i pared as usual for and by Mr. Broad- i wick and absolrtely nothing indicated j that he would not go up. But, within less than five minutes, in fact hardly more (lian two minutes, before the > big bag ascended, and only after cv- i erything was complete and ready, a i / young Augustan, who had never be- I j; fore had more to da with a balloon I than watch the bag go into the air * or interview the balloon man, peeled > off his coat and vest', took a seat on 1 the trapeze, tho guy ropes were re- i leased and the big air machine moun- i ted towards the clouds with William 1 B. Seabrook, a member of the Au- c gusta Chronicle staff. ? There were some hundreds of poo- t pie in (,he fair grounds who knew him I personally, and who were surprised ( to amazement, but not moro was 1 their surprise than that of his asso- t ciates in The Chronicle office, who had had :iof the slightest inkling of ; what was "coming off." 1 Tow Ihc a' cent and descent were made, and (he sensations experienced are told in Mr. Seaibrook's own words: Up in a Balloon. (By W. B. Seabrook.) j How'does it feel to make a balloon \ ascension and parachute drop? Such was the gist of a thousand questiohs hulred at an amateur who n^ule his lirst voyage among the I , 7, clouds from the Georgia-Carolina fair grounds yesterday afternoon. Not an altogether easy query to answer; for sensations are better experienced than expressed. It was a glorious ride. Its thrilling joy is beyond the reach of imagination because the actuality upsets from the first moment all the notions previously held as to what it must be like to dangle in mid-air on a trapeze bar no bigger than a broom-stick; ? with three-quarters of a mile of emp' kP ty space to stretch your legs an. f In the first place, I had perfect confidence in Broadwick. lie is a steady, level-headed fellow, with twenty years of aeronautic experience. Last Tuesday I made friends | with him and asked if he could ar- j range to put me up on one of his bal- i loons, some favorable day later in y, the week. Finding that the request j was made seriously, lie willingly as- ; .? sen ted and immediately went about , $ I teaching me the rudiments of his sen- . national and fascinating profession. | Yesterday morning we "doped up" . L ' our arrangements for the afternoon. . It was to be a double ascension and I was to ride one of the bags with Ifroadwiek's own parachute, while Fred 10. Kube, a well-known young , professional aeronaut in Broadwick's < ! Employ was to ride the other. , At four o'clock the fires were light- i ed and the canvas began to belly in , the wind, as the blasts of hot air fill- j Au ed the bags. Bo(h swelled rapidly and soon strained at their guy ropes. "All right, son," said' Broadwick, f and 1 skinned out of my coal and hat and vest. lie helped me with the i life-preserver, which was !<; be worn jj as a precaution in coso'the paraehuto descended in the canal or river, and : J. stopped into the trapeze, holding j the ropes as he had taught mo. lust then the other balloon, which ; u had been scorched, burst and col laps-1, Lvj od over the fire, so it was impossible 11 V iilrtUO. * CiV t!?.c Ikulh. i " l.et .no.' veiled llu* boss. a.nl my ; balloon started skyward. Following < instructions, 1 ran a few stops toward the rising bag, holding the rig- t i,"ing taut. Then my feet were gent- ( ly swung off tho oarth, and without i the slightest jork I found mysolf in t midair. The hand was playing, people t wcro yelling and waving their hands, t nil their faecs turned upward, and it r seemed that I was hanging station- f nry a coupie of hundred feet above c t'hem. Then they began to get smal- t ler without seeming to move further < nway. The race track looked like 1 somebody's small back yard and the s nain fairbuilding like a hen-house. t Smaller and smaller they became uid I knew although there was scarce- { ly any sensation of motion that*I mist be going nearly straight upward it an immense rate of speed. 1 Where was that sick "unsettled nside" feeling one always experiiiices in elevators, and which I had magined was going to partially spoil the fun ? It was absolutely absent. There was no dizziness, scarcely any Peeling of movement, except an indescribable floating in the mist of a '| perfect calm. But things below kept jetting smaller and smaller, and the distance I could see dn every direc- c non began to widon proportionally, t The entire ^anscape seemed composed I )f littlo geometric eplot'che-s of color, c ill of either shades. The r'ver seem- j ;d a strip of heavy burnished copier wire, stretching away to hazy in- ( rinitv in both directions. Houses, , iiilis, whole solid blocks of buildings ^ n Augusta, looked like children's day things. c A Beautiful World. ;| What a beautiful world! But by ( some peculiar mental freak 1 seemed- ^ u those three or four minutes to j lave lost my identity with the scene (1 >e!ow. The houses I saw were really j oys. The river was but a strip of j ;hining wiie, the fields no more than iqua res of boundless checker-board. iVhy, it wasn't even so real as that', | t was a picture, a painted panorama, c i kindergarten landscape. I wasn't t ligii in the air at' all, I was in anoth<r world that had no position in ipace, either high or low, relative to t ,'he little picture that looked so pret- ^ y and unreal. 1 did?not feel the ( lizziness that often comes with ( leight because T had absolutely lost ^ lie mental conception of height. In lliis dream I had forgotten all < tboiii I'roadwick. the halloo.i. the , fair^'onmls. myself, evorylhiug. P>ut ,vhou ! heard his revolver pop once , Kid llien a second lime I recollected ( hat he had told me he would signal n that way tho time when 1 reached i sufficient altitude to begin looking ( 'or a place to make the parachute Irop. \ Of course, the spell once broken, T j Mine back to reality with a rush, ; ook a firmer grip on the ropes, ( tquiutcd upward at the ballon, and j A-iili this sudden relavation of my | forgotten position came (he first' and < uily moment of fright I experienced , luring the entire trip. Tn a second it f lad passed. t The air at that altitude is absolute- ) y pure, and just sufficiently rare to b^ ^ >xhilirating. The sky is bluer be- ( ause it is seen undimmed by lie dust ; that hovers just above the earth and lbscurcs ordinary vision. This same lust gave to the circle of the horizon ix border of gorgeous color, which . ?lianged to brilliant flame at the ] [joint where the sun was dropping to- , kvard tho hills. i But Broadwick, on whose judg- i irient and equipment I had risked my neck, had given his signal, and it was time to "cut," that is to part company from the balloon and trust to ] luck and the parachute. T felt a decided hesitancy in com- , plying with this part of the program. ] My teacher had told me tho chute was ] rigged lo drop three hundred feet like | i bullet before opening. That wor- , ried me some. P.uf I got a good grip ? >n the paraehute ring above my head, j settled into the little trapeze seat, and ; jerked. j Loose From tho Balloon. 1 The bottom seemed lo drop out of j everything. For less than a fraction ] >f a second 1 felt tiny wind currents trickling upward just behind my | cars, inmost like wal^r. Then l.lie finite flared' wide and with a sharp jerk caught the air. Al'ler thai it 11 iva-s the dcli:hlf'il sensation of really soaring earl!i\vaid, neither loo i fast or loo .-jlow, perfectly coiite.il in knowledge thai the roU'.':l 1*1 of]1 lho road had been traveled, and absolutc safely lay ahead, i The chule soon nenred the earth iind made directly for a big clump of | pine trees. Thanks lo llroadwiek's in (he A. 1?. C. of ballooning I man- , iged lo -leer clear of this trouble r>:ily |o find the Augusta canal has- , toning upward to clasp mo to its * iiute shar,?!y :t i i1 wind carI in.:"d ' Jo miss ilie ?>y ihoui thirty Ici'l. and landed kneeloep in tin1 imul of a swamp lield. A little later when 1 showed up al lie fairground my friend Broadwick >xtended a grimy paw and told mo t had beon a auceessful ascent. I hen learned that I had gone two,birds of a mile high. With a grin, ny partner also imparted the infornataon that ho had put mo 0:1 his >00 foot drop chuto instoad of the <00 one. The drop was longer, but 'he chute surer, he said. In that Irop of five hundred feet, albsolutey the only sensation, mental or physical. had been a slight tickling about ho Dai's. STATE BANK EXAMINER SAYS FINANCES ARE SAFE die Banking Institutions of This State aro Reported to Be in Splendid Condition ? For Sako of Convenience He Favors Clearing House CortifiCRtOfl. ['ho Slate. Mr. Lee G Ilolleman, the state tank examiner, was very much pleasid 4,0 learn in The Stnto yesterday of he action of the South Carolina isnkorH' rocommcnding the issue of 1 earing house certificates by Columlia and Charleston. "I believe that it will give us the irculating medium we need just low," lie said, "and therefore will vlieve the situation entirely. 1 have 10 hesitancy in saying thai the banks if this state are in splendid condition md there is not the slightest danger if any trouble. The guarantee of he credit of the Charleston and Coumbia banks would be behind such ertifieates and of course this is all hat is needed to make the paper nst as valuable as government 111011y. "The banks in other sections have teen taking the currency away and in >rder to move the cotton and in fact o secure enough for the ordinary (very day business it may become necessary to make currency more elastic. Thoreforo, I am very much >leased with the action of the haulers, and hope that Columbia ami Charleston banking institutions can ee their way dear to comply. "The panic in the country will bo tver within .'10 days. T believe that nailers a?v get ling easier now. but ii vill lie fully rtO days before con S ilence is restored. And that is ;:ll lie panic means?lost confidence." Popular Names for Girls. iomhin Chronicle. In I he eightoe.it ii country uirls rere christened Sophia and Carolina; n- the early nineteenth, Km ma and fane; a lit lie later, Laura and Clara; hen came a crop of Dorothys and Marjories, who are now all calling heir own baihies in a reaction aginsl 'quaint'' Elizaibeth. The names of nen suffer 110 such emphatic fashions; ind yet i| is a pleasure to note that here are certainly 110 more young nen called Alf and Gus, as were the *oung men who walked with the crin?Iine in the days of Leech. Good is the sound of John, through all changes. Excelsior Fanners' Union. F.xeelsior Farmers' Union will meet \t Excelsior school house on Friday, November S, at 10 o'clock in the norning. A full attendance of the 11 embers is requested. There will be msiness of importance. John M. Sellumpert, President. NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION Notice is hereby given that a Democratic Primary Election will be ii*hl on Tuesday, November 2filh, 1007, in (lie Town of Newberry, S. C., Tor Mayor and Aldermen |.o serve for ?rc year and Trustees of !l:c Graded Schools for Wards-! and f> lo serve for wo ycar:;. Said Primary Election to > conduc-ed according to the rules md reg Jations of the Democratic Party of the Town of Newberry, S. C.. lie polls jo be opened at 8 o'clock a. 11. an<] lo be closed at -1 o'clock p. m. There will be a separate voting )recinct in each Ward as follows: Ward I. Council Chamber. Ward 2. SI ore of P?. I''. Grillin & o. Ward ()(l'u < of llerald & News. Ward I. Stoic of .1. W. While. Ward 5. \t corner of Drayton and Wright si reels. 'The following have been appointed nnlingers of said eleetioin: Ward 1. I<\ M. lyindsey, J. II. Wilinghani. M. AT. Salterwhite. Ward 2. G. K. Long, A. C. Welch, J.din A. ''unmier. Ward Alex. Singleton, Warren Jones, Mark Mills. Ward 4. T. B. Perry, J. II, Gilliard, I ^ v\. i . p.;-, is | 1'attl V, i I' <' a; i en i ion of ;i 11 candidates called io ilie following section of Rule "The candidates receiving the majority of all tho vot'es cast for tno said oftices of Mayor, Aldonnon and Trustees of tho Graded Sohooid respectively at said oloction, shall bo doelaivd tho nominees of tho Democratic Party of tho said town; provided, that 0:1 or boforo 12 o'clock noon on Friday, Novoimbor 22nd, 1907, each of such candidalos shall have loft a written statement with tho Chairman of 1 he Executive 'Committeo that ho is a candidate and that ho will abide tho result of such oloction. No voto shall bo counted for any candidate who hat* not so pledged himself." If no candidate, oithor for tho office of Mayor, or for Alderman, 01 for Trustee oi' tho Graded Schools in a \\ ard shall have received a majority ol votes at such election a second election for the nomination of a Mayor, Alderman or Graded School Trustee, as lho case may be, shall be held on Friday, November 29th, 1907, at which second election only tho two candidates who received tho highest voto at the former election shall be voted for: and in the event there should bo a tit: at tho socond primary then a third primary shall be hold on Monday, December 2nd, 1907. Tho candidates are assessed as follows : Mayor $10.00. Alderman $2.00. Trustee of Graded Schools $2.00. No pledge will be accepted from any candidate unless the proper assessment is paid at the time of filing his pledge. By Order of the Executive Committee. O. B. Mayer, T. IT. Hunt, Chairman. Secretary. JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. Rates from Newberrv S. C.f as follows : Season Ticket $19.55. 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