CAPTAIN LORRAINE.
to tm hhtok or nnc naaa. me,—l h*tmg witneand the daring and nerve exhthrM % in Iμ recent balloon aaoente, I think that hi* alack should be repognbed by the public. To ■how my earjti) in the nutter, I «m prepared to robwrihe & sovereign towards making up a —ft*Unt.itl pone for him. I am sore the mwHar only need* mentioning, to indnoa a krgb nomber of the csptoin , * admirere to oontribato their quote. He fully deserves snefa recognition, as bis performance was one that ma an object kaaon to all of us. I myself ma present some years ago in the Addngton Show Ground*, when •everal thomad people paid one ahilb'ng each admiajiofc, to ace Baldwin aaotod. We waited from three in the afternoon until six, and he never went up at aQ.—Yours, etc., B.C. P.S.—I enclose my card.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10483, 23 October 1899, Page 2
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