THE OMAITA SUNDAY BEE: if AY 22, 1910.
Omaha Boosters on Missionary Jaunt in Surrounding Trade Territory
ID you ever go out with th Com
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mercial club on 4 trad boosting
junket?
If not, you have missed om.
thing worth whileespecially If
you delight in thing optimis
tic, for trade booster trips beget optimum,
not only among the sojourner, but with,
the residents along the route, well.
It ! only of Ut yeere, perhaps within
the lait decade, that the trade extension
Idea ha taken hold upon the live com
merclai club of western cities. And, by
the way, It U a weetern and southwestern
Idea. Nobody ever beard of the Commercial
club of Springfield, Mass., or Providence,
R. I., or Wheeling, W. V., going out on such
an excursion. But Omaha. Denver, Kanaaa
City, 8t Louis, Houston, Dallas, El Paso
and other western and southwestern cities,
even down to the smaller Jobbing center
like Amarlllo and Pueblo and Albuquerque,
have the trad extension idea well de
veloped. Many prudish folk who lag behind at
home may fancy that these trips are one
grand hurrah, sort of a meteoric flight
through space, and that no actual good
results.
If such skeptlo there be In Omaha, let
him Journey forth once In the role of com
mercial missionary, and he will, nine times
out of ten, become a convert to the new
Idea. The wholesaler or Jobber or manu
facturer who goes on one of these trip
doe not expect to sell good while he 1
out. He may book a few straggling orders,
or he may not. In either eveot he Is satis
fied, because he know that he 1 casting
bread upon the waters, that he 1 Indirectly
owing sued that will In future bear fruit
and best of all. If he be of patriotic trend,
he may Justiy feel that h Is advertising
his town as a whole.
Take tho present Itinerary of the Omaha
Commercial club trade booster for in
stance. Doubtless th name of Omaha Is
already well known along th route, but
even so. In this era of rapid fir move
ment, persistent and consistent advertising
is necessary and the more times th name
of Omaha I mentioned In Nebrsska, Iowa
and South Dakota, Just so much better
doe Omaha stand in tha trad territory
that rightfully belong to this city.
There 1 handshaking and speechmaklrg
along the line. ' Merchant meet customers
face to faco. There I much in personi'l
contact and after Mr, Jo Smith up at
BUr-kvlllo, Neb., ha met and talked with
Mr. William Jones, wholesale grocor of
Omaha, he feels that he I In close touch
with the Omaha man, and all things being
equal, next time he wishes tu place an
older, the chances are that he will re
member trie man from Omaha vho spnkJ
pleasantly to him and who shook hnrds
with him as he swung onto the rear coach
of the booster train a It sped out of Bllnk
vllle. Moreover;, the Junketing wholesaler Is Im
bued with a feeling of personal warmth to
ward the customers he meets en route. He
ha met the merchap. he ha seen htm
emerge from behind hi oounter to extend
the glad hand of welcome, he ha formed
1)1 acquaintance under condition tending
to optimism and In short, the wholesaler
and the retailer become friends something
that I hardly possible by the mall order
Plan.
Another result that show up the credit
of th booster train Idea U the good that
th town a a whole derive from these
pilgrimage. The doctor, the lawyer, th
real estate man and other who do not sell
good to country merohants may at first
glance fancy that th booster train Is no
affair of theirs, but on second thought It
Is apparent that whatever make for the
gensral growth of any city Is a boost. In-
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otray inapters irom me K.ecora 01 iMew x orK
UK death of Thomas Byrnes,
yssr I one auqerlntendent of the New
I I York police department, opens
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merable stories of crime and
orlmlnal with which Byrnes'
name has been Identified during hi
thirty-two year of service as rounds
man, detective. Inspector and chief.
To hi nam cling th thrill and
romantlo history which attends one who
ferret out crime,, and hi record bttnga
in review realities of crime rivaling the
storied heroes of Uaborlau and uoy.e.
As a thief catcher Thomas Byrnes was
(killed. II had a retentive memory and
he could Identify men In various gutse.
He familiarised himself with the haunts
of criminals; he played off ono maie
(aeter against another, for he knew well
wherein lay their strength and their weak
ness. HI advice was sought In the depart
ment on matters which required an Inti
mate knowledge of conditions and skill In,
handling men, and In that narrow circle
he became recogn.'sed a a capable and
efficient detective.
Captain Byrne woa his !nspectorhli
Ignominious End of Warrior
N ODD mixture of human quali
ties went to make up the char
acter of Harry Douglas McDon
ald, whose fate It waa to e
com most widdy known
through th frailest and not
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noblest of tlios qualities, and
to be brandsd with the name of bimist,
wife deserter, murderer and ulcide, the
last two committed at Fairfield. I. Ac
cording to friend who knew McDonald
well n Chicago, hi had been a life of
adventure, that of th typical soldier of
fortune, who had faced death in four sap
grate wars, taking part In some of the
world's most famous battles, only to die
by his own hand, the body of the wife
ha la supposed to have killed elasped In
hi arms, the scars of many a savage's
wounds on his head and the medals ac
claiming brave deeds pinned to his breast.
In view cf what he had been and what
he had don, hi friends refused to shut
their yes entirely to tl tjut th crime
which marked th close of hi lit and
at lat to await complete confirmation of
all reports before rmovln th laurel of
tht hero from hi brow,
It Is krwwo that th McDonald family It
one of A9 small frominenc qotlnd,
vhtie th brother and father of th dead
man and all hi male ancestor for genera
tions hve been ministers in th Presbyter
ian hurh. A brother ef th father, It i
aid, the earl of Uleacairn. and aq
. undo Is now a congressmen. In Kentucky.
It w a family of culture, breeding and
education.
It was the Intention that Harry McDon
ald should also inter th ministry, but ho
Joined th Gordon Highlander a a boy
p. per, akd th love of adventur held him
from that time on. In the course ef hi
military" career, bo terved flvt year In
India, all through th Boer war In Africa,
went through th siege ef Peking and. after
ountlr-g to this country, secured a com
mission In tho United State army a a
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directly, to every man who doe buslnes
In th city, no matter what kind of bual- t
ness It may be.
Still another advantage Is th fact that
booster trips promote closer relations be
tween the men who go out on these trip.
Whirling along between stations, they
naturally swap Idea a to what Is best for
Omaha, and th germ of much co-operation
for a better city I thus sprouted.
For a business man who from overwork
and long Indoor confinement has acquired
what In street parlance is termed a
"grouch," there t no better tonlo than a
trade Junket. . It opens hi eyes to the .
optimistic view of his fellow tradesmen
and before he returns he, himself is an
optimist and It takes optimists to build
cities.
Dally reports to The Bee from tht various
points visited by th? Omaha boosters on
the'r present tour indicate that much
good missionary work Is being done and
when the home-coming whistle sounds; the
returning boosters, travel-tired, but all
the better for It, will receive the glad hand
from thoae who remained behind.
This I by no means the Initial trade
Junket of the Omaha Commercial club.
This city caught the booster spirit several
years ago, and trad winning expeditions
now ut regular intervals punctuate tha
work-a-day routine of commercial life at
home.
After each return the club's story tellers
s re kept busy for several weeks and new
enthusiasm I thus generated from time to
time.
- This interest I kept up from year to
year and reaervatlor on the Booster train
never go bagging.
The accompanying Illustrations sent from
the booster train by a staff correspondent
of The Bee, portrays the boosters In var
ious stages of tltelr missionary work.
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through tho capture. In 1879. of the dar ns
burglars who robbed the vaults of the
Manhattan Havings institution, at Brcal
way and Bleecker street. The p'ot had
been more than thre? years in matur.nt
and Involved the complicity of the bank
watchman and a pollcoman and enlisted ths
services of such adepts In crime as ' Ol I
Man" Hope. The bank was rifled of cash
and securities.
Captain Byrnes within eight monthes had
found all the robbers and they werj sent
to prison for varying terms. The ben is
were re-Issued and th total loss to tha
bank proved to be only $60,000 In the end.
Kvery now and then one of the cancelled
securities will hub up in the market.
Such was the pertinacity of Thoinai
Byrnca that he never abandoned the Idea
of recovering every scrap of the pape.s,
and even Just before he left the department
he obtained some of them. Tha faot that
these were worthless did not In any way
alter hisv determination.
It la likely that his Intercession with
Governor Flower for the pardon of one of
the convicted men, John Hope, had much
to do with th never-ending quest for the
captain through his oongressnian-unclu,
and fought through th Philippine cam
paign. Ho came out of the wars battered and
scurred, many a Hindu's spear and bullet
having silt his skin. In one Hindu cam
paign, the British government reported him
among tho dead. An adoring sister In Glas
gow, greatly grieved, secured all his relics
and belongings and cherished them among
her dearest poxsesions. After many weaks
the news came that instead of being dead,
he had been a captive, bm with a captain
had escaped the Indian guards and was
back with his command. Such thrilling
adventures were common, and his fund
of personal reminiscences covering tht
bloody ground of which Kipling never
tired to write waa never-ending.
McDunald was a captain In the Boer war.
After th Highlanders, he Joined 'Kitchen
er's horse regiment, and. was the captain
who commanded th detachmnt, which
took th captured Commander KronJ
across the country to the coast, to the ship
which carried him away.
After a life so full of action, It Is said by
acquaintances here that he was restless for
th soldier' life again, and would have
welcomed war. Thty assert, however, that
he was a calm, apparently upright, frank,
honest and rugged Scotchman, a man who
Impressed with his evident sincerity and
high character. A short time ago he sent
to Scotland for the medals he won In war
time, and these were all marked with his
full name and atteeted that the stories ho
had sometime related of himself were not
fabrications Chicago Record -Herald.
A Bachelor's Itef leetlone.
Yet) are entitled to feel vou are reason
ably ssne when yen don't think nearly
everybody else 1 craay.
The mure fun a man thinks he can hav
being out nights tha more his wife knuws
lie can't.
When a man comes to you with an off'r
to make you rich you're lucky If he
doesn't go awey with a dollar lie borrowed
from you. New York Pre.
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Manhattan bonds. The robbery In 1ST i
turned the eyes of the world upon Thomas
Byrnes, catcher of thieves, and in 1879 he
was designated to reorganize the detective
bureau, aii'l In iSSi) was placed In charge
of It, with the rank of Inspector. He wis
made then, by special enactment, a chief
Inspector, with a salary of ,00 a year.
These were the days In which the name
of Inspector Byrnes carried a veritable
magic.
Dram tho Dead Line.
The metropolis teemed with criminals,
chief among them were those aristocrats
of theft, the bank burglars. The safes of
those days were formlable enough In ap
pearance, but they lacked the numerous
contrivances and checks of the present day.
The city was not so well lighted as It now
is, and the police force was inconsiderable
as compared with the army which Is now
on guard. The ferries were Infested by
bunco men, green goods operators and the
like, many of whom were on terms of easy
familiarity with small politicians. Wall
street was alive with sneak thieves and
burglars seeking plunder, while Maiden lane
was periodically pillaged of plate and
Jewels.
Inspector Byrnes first established a
branch of the detective bureau in a little
room in a Wall street building, paying the
rent out of his own pocket. He then
through General Brayton Ives, asked that
the Stock Exchange give quarters for his
men under its roof, which was accordingly
done. The arrangement was most satis
factory, for by wire practically every bank
or Important broker's office in the district
was connected with the bureau.
In this connection the order was given
by the inspector that any man with a
criminal record seen south of Maiden lane
should be arrested, end the Instructions
were so literally carried out that the "Dead
Line ' proved an effectual barrier. In Wal
street he met Jay Qould, who laid the foun
dation of his fortune.
The leortianixatlon of the bureau In Mul
berry street brought a galaxy of detective
talent, trained after tha maner of Byrnes,
Plan a Hliuitle One.
Byrnes' plan was a simple on. He kept
tabs on the .'rlmli.al classes Just as the
police of Pat Is and Berlin keep tabs on all
classes of society. By a system of Inform
crs and "stool-pigeons" in the various
dives and "hangouts" ha Iturnrd of the
thieves' comings and goings and could gen
erally put his hand on a wanted man In
stantly. The strong point of , his system was al
ways the complotenesk of his staff of ln
foimere. Famous criminals wero on it,
and men entirely unsutpeclod by their fel
lows; for Instance, John, alias Red L.eary.
Then he had the toolmaksr tinder his
thumb, and this was most valuable. One
famuli maker of burglars' tools, who had
a place on Bleecker siret, near the Buwery,
told him every lime a ttol was ordered.
When tho tool was ready to be delivered
the place was wstched. and the patron wal
allowed to go in and make his purchase,
ard depart In peace. He would b" fol
lowed, however, and picktd up on suspicion,
perhaps five mile away front the tool
maker's. Many notorious thieves from the
west and from other cities were cauuhl In
this way. The toolmaksr had to play fair
with Byrnes, for ha never knew whn an
order might be given for a tocl by one of
th chief s men, and then be himself be
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nubbed as he went to deliver It.
Keepers in prison, saloonkeepers and
little thieves were all on the naff, and the
saloonkeepers were well in hand, for they
could not sell a drink on Sunday if thay
did not give all the information they could
when it whs wanted. An illustration of
how well this -worked was the case of a
saloonkeeper on Hudson street. This man
had two patrons who were thieves and
who spent their money freely at his bar.
One night they asked him to advanci
thorn some money on a valuable watch they
had, saying that they were short of funds
and were going up to Connecticut that
night to rob an old miser they knew of.
The saloonkeeper lent them tho money and
told a policeman, a friend of his, who
wanted to get In the good graces of Byrnes.
Sow, Just as the chief got this Information
from this patrolman word came from Con
necticut that the old miser had been robbed
and murdered and that It was thought the
robbers had started for New York. Of
oourse Byrnes knew their names, and as
they stepped off the train they were ar
rested. The rule of the Inspector was harsh and
absolute und albo effective to the lost de
gree. The crooks was arrested on sight,
irrespective of whether the magistrate
held them or not.
UesrlnnlnsT of the Third Deorree.
Out of this method grew the third de
gree, which was in reality the use of
phyacholofy of a most practical kind. Its
first application by the inspector was In
solving the mystery of the killing of Liouli
Hanler, who kept a French wine shop In
West Twenty-sixth street. He was shot -In
HS2 at the head of the stalls on which
he wus descending t) tha lower floor,
which had been wrecked by a band of ruf
fians. The Inspector enlisted the services of a
woman to keep track of Michael E. Mc
Gloin, one of a band of voting desperadoes
known as the 'Seventh Avenm gang,"
and he also obtained Information concert
ing three others whom he believed to be
Implicated. All the quartet were so tak -n
that no one knew of the other's arrest.
The Inspector had McGloin tak n Into
his private room and so placed the i hairs
that the prisoner would be look ng out of
the window Into tho courtyard. As ths
Inspector and he were talking a man en
tered the room and laid down on the d'S'.t
the pistol with which the French Innkeeper
had been killed. Tne inspector looked at
it In a annul way, referred to It as the
weapon which had been used by the mur
derer and asked McQloln If he had ev.r
seen It before.
The prisoner, although the sight of the
woiipun had unnerved him, tried to keep up
an sir of unconcern, although the inspec or
already had caught the expression of mo
mentary dismay on his face. Then, calmly
smukl.iK a cipar, the chief of detect. tes
referred In a matter of fact way to lhre
men; all of whom had seen the murder, for
they had said so.
Dramatic (.'anfesslons.
Then, in the courtyard, walking between
two policemen, marched first one and
then another of McUloin's Intimates.
The prisoner fell on his knees before the
inspector and confessed that he and others
had gone to wreck the saloon bf cause its
proprietor refuted to be taken In by a
flim-flam game, and he had fired on
him. Intending onlv to start him. Mo-
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Gloln was executed and tho other three
men were sent to prison. Tactics allll
more dramatic were employed in the cms
of Unger, suspected of gil.iug and dis
membering his roommate, named Bohles,
and of then shipping his body from Brook
lyn to Baltimore. Unger was taken to
police headquarters, where he was put
casually Into a cell which had been fur
nished with the blood-stained appointments
of the room in which the murder was
committed. He fell to the floor from th
stained bed on which he had been forced
to sit and confessed the crime.
Many a time was the third degree
worked in the time of Inspector Byrnes,
its chief factor being tho conscience of the
man played upon by the shrewd and force
ful mind of the master detective. Fic
tion and the drama since have made usj
of the third degree as a theme, but to t.ie
Inspector It was regarded as a meant to
an end and In his hands it was the most
effective of weapons.
Detectives loathe Haklsi,
Inspector Byrnes' great achievements as
a detective made him a frequent subject for
comparison with detectives of V iction. He
once gave this comparison between the de
tective of fact and of fiction:
"My advice to boys who want to become
young sleuths Is to stick to school till
they graduate and then learn trades. The
detective of fact owe a nothing to the de
tective of fiction. Take the wonderful dis
guises of the detectives of fiction. L,e
cocq and Sherlock Holmes play a score of
different roles. There Is nothing like that
In real detective work. One thing wrong
about the detective of fiction la that it Is
all the same Bead one detective story
and you have read them all. In real life
the cases that come at you are all differ
ent The detective of fiction tells the
criminal all he knows. It would be hard
to conceive a mere senseless proceeding.
The French detectives of fiction proceed
to confound the criminals by laying be
fore them proofs of their crimes. All the
criminal has to do Is to deny. Then, If
the proof falls, he Is free.
"When I srreeted a man charged with
a serious crime I never told him why
he was arrested. I might talk with him
about his mother, his home, his employer,
but not a word about his crime. I knew
that he was not listening to me. The
thought of his crime was whirling about
in his head, and he knew (hat i knew
what he was thinking about, it worried
him thst I should not talk about tha
crime. He strained himself trying to think
how much I knew. If he saw any of lis
accomplices march past the window or any
of the clothing of the victim or the wea
pon of the crime he was more uneasy.
After a time he felt that he would be
eafler if he told all than constantly strain
ing and worrying. Ho he confessed and
sl.pt easily after it. That was exactly the
way we got them.
"It Is not remorse that makes ths bard
ei.ed irinilnul confess; it Is anxiety, men
tal strain."
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Uerk appreciated.
In tht wholt time that he was in chart
of the detective bureau the thieve caught
by his men received prison sentences ag
gregating more than lO.tlw years.
Th ability of Mr. Byrnes on ssvaral oc
casions attracted the attention Of th
United elate government, and a pl '
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the secret service was offered to him, which
he declined. King Humbert of Italy would
have made him a chevalier of the order of
the crown, but this deoorutlon he asked to
be excused from accepting, as he wished
to be regarded always as an American cltl
sen. Inspector Byrnes passed through many
a stormy political struggle during his time
t police headquarters. Ht was made sup
erintendent of police in 1882, and Inter was
summoned before the Lexow committee,
where he gave a full and frank exposition
of the source of his wealth, which even In
1894 was generally believed to have been
large.
The Inspector explained that when he
went to Wall street he had between SIS.OOO
and $20,000, part of which ha had inherited
from an uncle and part representing his
Ballooning for Weather
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of tests both before and after they are
sent On their exploration of tho sky. An
Ingenious device enables the workers of
the Mount Weather observatory to repro
duce the conditions which the Instruments
will meet in the attentuated upper air, or
the "permanent Inversions," as they call It
In technical phraseology.
The Instruments are placed in a partial
vacuum In which the pressure can be eon
trolled by means of Inlets and exhausts
permitting the production of any degree of
pressure from practical sero to that of
fourteen pounds,, the normal barometrio
registration at sea level.
The temperature within the testing cham
ber I brought to the terrible degrees of
cold of the upper air by the circulation of
gasoline chilled by liquid air. The gaoollne
is cooled by driving it through threadlike
colls In a bath of the liquid air before It is
forced through the cooling devices within
the vacuum chamber.
By this meaps the action that the device
will follow when subjected to similar condi
tions naturally produced in the atmosphere.
Measurements and corrections are made
until the apparatus can be depended upon
to deliver an accurate record of conditions
to be met. When th device la at last re
turned It equipment Is again put through
the test fur the purpose of determining
whether or not further corrections of the
reoord may be neoessuy.
Tha standardisation of th hydrometer Is
accomplished by a process similar to thst
by which the thermometer and barometer
are set aright.
The total weight or the busket and its
lireelous burden of Intricate device Is but
a little more than two pounds. The lift
ing power of the balloon is about four and
a half pounds. Thl allow an upward
pressure of approximately two pound to
carry th balloon upward. This t suffi
cient to carry the balloon to the maximum
of Its distance In usually le than three
hours.
Th capacity of th gas bag 1 at the
temperature and pressure of the starting
point, about 130 cubic, feet of gas. This
makes the sphere about six ft in
diameter.
As tht balloon rises tht atmospherlo
pressure Is reduced, allowing the gas
Within to expand, thus keeping tht lifting
sewer of tht balloon near to a constant
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savings and small investments. He per
formed several services for Jay Gould, who
In turn Invested some money for him, until
tho Inspector through that source had
amassed 1120.000.
Later George J. Gould looked after somo
Investments for him which brought to tho
police official returns of 145,000. Ho Ani
mated that at the time of the Investigation
he waa worth 129,000.
Mr. Brynes on his retirement continued,
to Invest and speculate and his property,
especially a plot at Fifth avenue and Forty
sixth street, steadily advanced In value
from f 164,000 which he paid for It, to 1760.
000 at which it Is now held. He was mora
than a millionaire, to all accounts at his
death. He lived at No. Sli West Seventy
seventh street in a finely appointed house. .
Us had a country plaoe at Ked Bank.
balance, so long as the gas envelope tier
mlts of extension. It Is not until thrub-
ber bag is distended to its elastic llm't
that the balloon explodes and releases' the
Instruments, which come tumbling to earth
c Tim'
ui der a parachute. Seldom does the bal
loon rise to more than fifteen or sixteen
miles above the earth, while the
limit ifw '
ibove Chi
far has been but two miles above
level. At this nolnt the mi bar is areatly
expanded to nearly twice its dimensions aft,
the starting point of the flight.
When the excessive pressure of the ex
panding gas with the balloon breaks the
gas envelope, the rubber sao falls from,
under the parachute, which Is spread over
the top of It, and In falling tumbles down
across the basket containing the recording
instruments. It then Is a dead weight,
which helps In bringing the record back to
earth through the miles of thin air. Tho
rubber bag has then performed Its mis
sion and Is no longer of use. The delicate)
Instrument, however, usually comes to k
earth unharmerf and can bo used for att
indefinite number of flight.
The traced record on the smoked cj Under
when once within the saf environs of th
Mount Weather laboratory Is treated to a
coating of shellsc, which ,,fles" It In
much the same nay as fixative Is applied
to a charcoal sketch. The aluminum sheet
which carries the smoked record I :
rolled from the core of the cylinder and
l educed to a flat sheet, which can then ba
l.atirll.l In n mrd lnr1.M tu thA Alpu ,r th
balloon flent Working over this fluttrued.
,h-et with dividers and scale the v !
expert is able to get the measurements oo,
the recd which tells the tale.
The extreme thinness of ths atr fax. ti
region which the weather bat.oona trsjFre
In the upper part of their Journey is shuw ri
by the record of a balloon which enUh
llshrd the ttghteen-lmle record. A this
elevation the bamrnetrlo pressure recorded
was but four-tenths of au lnen, whllw lhJ
average pressor at the altitude efOinafc.
about l.tTO ftst abort teeel t Iwenie
lilne inche, fteduced to other term. It
mean that It would take T2 eibJ Inc
of the air at the oUMuAiu!ie tev'4 to
contain tho same amount of tuattor
that of the cubic inch at th tl Of
Omaha.
Tho asoenaton of (ha sounding Utliooit kt
limited only by the elasticity of the rubbe
envelop which holds the i:.'i" tne
rubber ox a mora olastio sutwinut tn t
found. It U not probable that 'if oJjta
balloon Will vr reach ututo .0,' loty
mites abov th level of tho oou'Auj"i '
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