ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10494, 21 October 1905, Page 1

ÆRIAL NAVIGATION.

■■ ■ w A sensation was recently created in New York City by A. Knabonj-hue, the aeronaut, who made satisfactory tests with his flying balloon at the St. Louis Exposition. He made an aasention in his air craft from" a vacant lot at Sixtysecond street and Central Park wei*t, and sailed towards the city with the purpose of sailing round tho flat iron building. Something- weht wrong with the engine, and the machine settled down at first in the tree-tops 'in tho park, and attracted the attention of a policeman, who came running up and threatened .to. arrest the navigator. Kiuibfens-hue soon adjusted his engine, however, and arose above thc tree.* and got buck to lus starting poitit. A little later a new start was made, and with greater success. Charles J. Strobel, the baseball man, of Toledo, who is backing Kiiabenshuo financially, started down town in an automobile, accompanied by v a number of reporters, bent on beating the airship to the flatiron building. Crowds in the stieet below the craft soon became *<o dense, as to interrupt traffic. With eyes strained skyward, tlie people- stood in a mass or broke and rushed down the street according to tlie evolutions of the airship. The airship lose to a height of about 1000ft, aeid then shot down Broadway and Eighth avenue. . Knabonshue says that 'lie became confused as to tho buildings, and sailed around the Times, instead of tho flatiron building, and settled down until he just hovered over the tower of the latter. Then, making u turn, tho cruft went to its highest rise, 1500ft, and started back. Tlie engine stopped again, and the balloon merely drifted with the air currents off over Central Park. The 25,000 or 30,000 people in tho crowd:* below hurried towards the park, by every means of conveyance possible The police were swept from their feet, and many persons were trampled -upon. Fifty-four mimiites after its start home the airship, nettled gracefully through the trees and came to the ground in tlie midst of a, great crowd.