Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1909 — LARGEST BALLOON IN LAND [ARTICLE]

LARGEST BALLOON IN LAND

Fisher and Bumbaugh Building New Aircraft In Indianapolis. * Indianapolis, Oct. 1. —It has been learned that Carl Fisher and G. L. Bumbaugh of this city, are constructing a dirigible ballon which, they declare, is to be the largest in the United States. The bag is to be 166 feet long and thirty-two feet in diameter. It will have a capacity for 1,000 pounds of ballast and three men will be required to operate it. Bumbaugh said that he intends to launch the balloon from the Indianapolis Motor speedway about Oct. 10 and after soaring about the Soldier's and Sailors monument in this city, to start for Dayton, O. Henry D. Pruden of Dayton, 0., made an ascension in the balloon Indiana, which he recently purchased. Columbus, Ind., Oct. 1. —A balloon believed to be the Indiana caused a suspension of service on the Indianapolis, Columbus and Southern traction line when an anchor rope became entangled in three high tension wires near Edinburg, Ind. When the balloon passed over Taylorville, it was so near the earth that the occupants shouted to persons in the streets.