Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — The Longest Balloon Voyage. [ARTICLE]

The Longest Balloon Voyage.

St. Nicholas for December. Prof John Wise, a world famed aeronaut, sailed through the air in Ju1y,1859, from St. Louis, Mo., to Henderson, Jefferson county, N. Y.-—a distance in a straight line of 835 miles. He laid claim to 1,050 miler, by reason of the many turns taken during the trip, which took hie balloon out of a direct course into circlesand curves. This voyage is the longest recorded in balloon history. The balloon was in the air over night, a period of about twenty hours. Prof. Wise tried more than once to equal or exceed the famous trip men tinned. Finally,a few years ago, he left St. Louis in a balloon on a long trip, for the last time. He has never been heard from. A reported who, went with him was found some weeks later shore of Lake Michigan. By reason of this and other disasters, the suggestion of along air voyage gives rise in the public mind to a keen sense of the perils which attend every attempt to stay in the sky over night. A tolling stone gathers no moss, r but it knocks out all opposition at -the foot of the hill. - tut—a fuddled playwright.