Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1909 — Ballooning as a Fad. [ARTICLE]

Ballooning as a Fad.

The airship crapk of a year ago is a scientist today. In the rooms of the Aero Club they have a model airship on exhibition. Attached to it is a rubber motor. The machine is made to fly about 20 feet, and there Is always an interesting audience watching the flight. All of which shows that the public is beginning to be Interested in aerial trips. In a tailor’s window nearby is a woman's ballooning suit. The suit is of soft gray cloth, with a smart jacket, fitted over a waistcoat of red silk, and knickerbockers. "This Is the third balloon suit I have made for the wives of rich aeronauts," said the tailor. ‘-They are all knlcker suits. Ballooning is too dangerous to admit of cumbersome and entangling skirts. Pretty and modest rigs they are.”—Pittsburg Dispatch. Insuring forests against destruction by fire is an innovation in the Northwest. One company has 8,000,000 acres under its charge. The forests .are patrolled by rangers to guard against Area Japan has 32 timepiece factories, of which 28 are tn Nagoya, one in TOklo and six In Osaka. The annual output is 209,703 standing clocks, 441,765 hanging clocks, 25,860 watches, representing a value of $794,900.