MONSTER CAPTIVE BALOON FOR SYDNEY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 689, 7 May 1879, Page 2

MONSTER CAPTIVE BALOON FOR SYDNEY.

(KftOM THB SYJHfHY, jNBWay AjPßs|7.V Amongst *fche many nWeltietf &at wm be exhibited at the forthcoming' B«hiW* tion m Sydney will ,be , qaptiv? balloon that created, so great a sensation at the Exhibition .^last year. We understand that this, or a similar, balloon, has been secured for the Sycfaey Exhibition, and we [have i beeivAwoured by the g>mileman'^.'da i Vfc%ht. late an Officer' b'f > fcngiheers iai ; tteei grfefttn army) wh6 has r6fcbiV64 thw(BMiibilJj oommißßioners l ! f.,Berm}iasip^..±p .exhibit and work the said bSboikffire^Sh the followingfpartiouk^if-The ballooft if fastened by tatAick,,,rqpe to a steamengine, by which its movements jug directed, -after itJiM been any height that 'many be- though desi^Sl^ ?^^il^ighlnn!|is g 2|OOWL to 2,500 ft.), and after having remajnepl at this altitude fpri^ome %%[C« hauled down by means of the said engine. The car will coiitain 'about' 3o persons. Ini Paris the success wfts sp .great that intending passengers had- to secure tickets several days, before^ and all the Royal and princely pfers'onages who where m Paris during the. BxhiHti/K, made the ascent, amongst !thenVf3hie Prince and ' PYincesß cof i /Wales/1 . >The Prince ascended several times, and<AeV all gaVe expression -io'Elhe: great' aktiafaction their serial trip had afforded them. Duringthetimeof the Exhibition m Paris the* balloon ascended more accident,. And it will )m : , mradt 'surfeae many tdllear' that the fjtttuiiateownerof the bkl6on cleared ■ a pWfitl francs (£32,000)*;.*: Hithertt), nearly every proposed^censiQn, of JoaUoons m Sydney has been ' unsuccessml, on account of the difficulties connected with the gas supply.. 4 This baloon, however. wUI not ttgSiibijeoMiW^ difflou% as the aeronaut makes the gas re-' quired himself.- Thfe sort 1 of gasusfdTis . brint, and ia made from sulphuric dbid aud'iron;* In Paris thfe' biHodii^fwka made use of for'oohatfoting scientific experiments, which,, of course, will also be done here. We have no doubt that the captive balloon will^aot J)e inpwpnt of patrons. Those -whose good Afltoe it will be to makwthefesoent wilffiaWa wondrous beautiful, panorama before them, not equalled m any part of the world.