...lue outline far off in the east, going now very fast before a gentle south-west gale, returned above the Crystal Palace towers, circled round them, ch... ...ersity buildings, and dropped to within shouting distance of the crowds in West End Park and on the slope of Gilmorehill. The thing flew quite steadil... ... and a County Council steamboat, the Isaac Walton, collided with a pier of Westminster Bridge, and narrowly escaped disaster by running ashore—it was ... ...ng and dis- persing the rest. Sealed packing-cases went north and east and west to various pantechnicons, and the engines were boxed with peculiar car... ...no disaster, and it was onlv on the crest of the downs between Wrotham and Kingsdown that disaster came. They had come up the hill in the twilight; Be... ...me aware of a very big, golden-brown bal- loon low in the sky to the north-west, and coming rapidly towards them. “Jest as we’re gettin’ hold of ‘em,”...