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BALLOONISTS (early). One of Dubuque's first demonstrations of ballooning was made on July 18, 1889. A crowd estimated at two hundred people paid admission to the baseball park and another five thousand flocked to the bluffs and housetops to observe the flight. When F. L. Thompson, the advertised balloonist, refused to make the ascent because the paying audience was too small, a local enthusiast, named Streif, sat on a trapeze beneath the balloon. He rose one thousand feet into the air before parachuting into an alley.
On September 30, 1906, over two thousand onlookers witnessed a Mrs. Elew Dockstader, a Dubuque resident, stylishly dressed in a green suit reach an altitude of nearly five thousand feet before parachuting to the ground.
See: Elsie LAVARE