Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1908 — Balloon Has Trouble. [ARTICLE]

Balloon Has Trouble.

The balloon was inflated Tuesday afternoon in Milroy Park, and Little Otto undertook to make an ascension, but the big gas bag swayed off to the southeast and dragged the aeronaut into the limbs of a burr oak tree, and so scratched and bruised him up that it was decided not to make another attempt to raise the balloon that evening. It waa proposed to have an additional ascension this Wednesday morning at 11:30, and later it was decided to postpone it until 1 o’clock, but this attempt was also a failure, as the balloon collapsed and fell over ou its side just as they went to release it. The bag is a new one and there seems no good reason why it should not work, and the two owners say the failure today was on account of the high wind. Another effort is to be made at 5 o’clock, and falling in this, a night ascension will be made. The shows are all good, the comedy acrobats, the wire workers and the jubilee singers all being high class. The merry-go-round and other pay attractions are having a good business.