M. Santos-Dumont is doing his best to inaugurate happy time when we shall all go about in balloons and when jeans, omnibuses and the rest shall have ceased to exist. On Monday night. the weather being for once fine, it occurred Dumont that an early morn-by airship from his balloon-shed lat Nenilly to his flat in the Champs Elysees would do him good. Accordingly. Lat seven a.m. on Thesday. "he stood brought out, went had it toa your, 90 feet, follow the Avente clu Bois de Boulogne as far as the phe, steered round t Leclebrated structure, fi down Champs Elysees, came down on the pave-Fiaent in front of his house ud went in to breakfast, leaving hix "No. 9" to the jeare of his men who had followed hi a motor-car. Moving refreshed hi he re-entered his car, had the ai towed clear of the houses, and sailed off. The only drawback to the performance, from his point of view, was that he had to come to the ground and walk upstairs like any ordinary mortal. He is having a <ort {of landing stage built, and next [time he comes home through the air hi {servants will push this landing-state out the first-floor balcony, he will alight on it and enter his rooms straight from the like an angel. Some weeks size he sensation by coming down in I the Longehamps racecourse enclosure without paying his entrance fee, and if he finds many imitators it is to be feared that the ordinary conditions of life in is will undergo an upheaval compared hich the siege of Paris and the Com-nine will he mere incidents. The ge whose tenants come in and out passing under his exe will reflect with hitterness that es have indeed the glory is departed.
by success) M. Santos perpetrating fresh es this week. He came down de Boulogne cas going on who mother at but Will ten, way Syst declined with thanks, an American small boy, aged not afraid. He be-ought his earnestly that she allowed car, and he was given the proud privilege of being the first [person whom the intrepid aeronaut bye jover token with him in his airship. The few, 3 Dumont afterwards. retened for him-autos-Dumont climb car and sat on the frame-
"he hoped the gentle-1 Wee 1 out and get hurt." ly was brought back safe and sound suther, and two other children a trip, after which ed its owner hack to has also cents with an immense rylene inp attached to the front. of car.
He mananvred over the Bois for some time, to the utter (of nucturnat promenaders.
aeronef, which has a sixty motor, will be ready for use ends to hover with it Lomychomps racecourse while the 1 review (postponed from July ty 19 in consequence of the King of Italy's yis going on. In September he hopes mience ascents with his omnibus balloon, which will be big enough to carry passengers. He has already received nds ions for seats, of appl chiefly from He will not take 7 Roa ys, unless the wea-ither conditions are quite satisfacto there is absolutely no danger. M. Santos-himself on prudence Prefect of Police, That functionary has thought it necessary lo warn M. thos-Dumont that he must pr public safety, anions for th nother way of aving that an ant ray. kill himself hie chooses nth no right to fall on and 1 sinehieves ent at a cifte plished on Wednestay Ship bails at the expense nat named after this ails in nye hous jus ters, returning ts its start pine without any difficulty, This the greatest distance ever covered lo balloon in a single trip "stop; but the conditions were lo exeeptiv ally favourable, and there is, nothing to how that the Lebaudy would Lido avy better than YE. Santos-Lumou's ships, or any others 0+ the same prin-ayainst "a stiff breeze. All these re yt to lead the public into the belief that the "conquest of the so often talked about, is at hand: teely Philosopher. ice Arstne Karageorgoviteh is. still within our walls, unspoiled by greatness. Hie struc that he is not quite so easy i asin bueame King of access, since hi Servia, as he be, bat that his fault. Mine, Palmyre. who runs his ar ithe Rue clu Helder, has Haken rge of him ly came: {te see tha dignity.
Only a mont ago he ey been seen in the aifably playing and consuming cocktails ik. any ordinary mortal. row he withdrawn into Sunetuary behind the bar, and the andi conces demanded of hinvare preceded by due has been told off the ver er igns to act tie callers ne. To dint he dees no put on "side. His bearzu still as familiar and racy as of yore. One of his companions, by personage from Belgium,
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