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30 Dec 1906
AERO EXPERTS MOVE ON ST. LOUIS.
As announced in The Tribune of Friday, five members of the Aero Club started for St. Louis yesterday morning to investigate the advantages of that city as a starting place for the races for the Bennett and Lahm aeronautical trophies. The committee is composed of Cortland Field Bishop, A. Leo Stevens, Augustus T. Post, Alan R. Hawley and J. C. McCoy. At Dayton, Ohio, Orville Wright and his brother, the inventors of the Wright aero plane, will join the party.

At St. Louis experiments and ascensions will be made with Stevens's balloon, the Eagle, and the larger L'Orient, belonging to the Aero Club. On the return trip the party will probably stop at Dayton to see the Wright aeroplane, which, according to all reports, is the first heavier-than-air machine to keep up an uninterrupted flight for any distance under its own power.

American New York
30 Dec 1906.

BALLOON CONTEST TO START IN ST. LOUIS
Aero Club Considers City in the Middle West an Ideal Spot for the Purpose.

The Aero Club of America is considering the choice of a starting point for the 1907 contest for the Coupe International des Aeronautes. In case gas of a proper specific gravity and in sufficient quantity can be secured, the city of St. Louis will probably be selected. St. Louis is the fourth city of the United States, having in 1900 a population og 575,000. It is reached by several linees of railway in about twenty-seven hours from New York. For long distance ballooning its geographical situation is excellent. The nearest tidewater is the Gulf of Mexico, situated about 700 miles (1,120 kilometres) to the south. The Atlantic Ocean lies 900 miles (1,440 kilometres) to the east, and the Pacific some 2,300 miles (3,680 kilomtres) to the west.

It is proposed to hold the contest in October, when there is greater likelihood of strong steady winds.

Under the United States customs tariff balloons are dutiable to the extent of 45 percent of their value, but the club will endeavor to effect an arrangement by which those competing for this cup will be admitted in bond. The Aero Club of America will do everything in its power to assist competitors from foreign nations and hopes to make the contest of 1907 a memorable one in the annals of ballooning. It hopes that its affiliated clubs in the Federation Aeronautique Internationale will not delay sending in their challenges until the last date allowed (February 1, 1907), but will no so at the earliest possible moment.

American New York
30 Dec 1906.

FORTUNE FOR FIRST FLYING MACHINE
Successful Aeronaut to Receive Vast Sums of Money After First Flight.

That the first successful builder of an aeroplane will be reimbursed for his trouble can be judged by the following offer of purses:

London Daily Mail, $50,000 to the first aeronaut to fly from London to Manchester in twenty-four hours.

The Car, $2,625 for longest distance flown in the United Kingdom without touching the ground by any self-propelled machine heavier than air during any year, beginning January 1, 1907. Lowest limit twenty-five miles. Also, $25 a mile for every mile successfully accomplished up to twenty-five miles. Prize divided between steersman and designer, apart from the engine.

Brooklands Automobile Racing Club, $12,500 to the owner of any aeroplane which completes the circuit of the Brooklands Motor Course (three miles), without touching the ground, at altitudes of thirty to fifty feet. Open until December 31, 1907. Three weeks' notice must be given by competitor. Machine must cover the course in not less than eighteen minutes, or at a minimum speed of ten miles per hour.

Barnum & Bailey offer $10,000 and an engagement for a flying machine.

Adams Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of the Antoinette engine, offer a $10,000 aeroplane prize open to any combination of aeroplane and motor, providing flights are made within the next two years and that the machine is entirely British built. The competition is not restricted to the use of the Antoinette engine.

Ruinart Pere & Fils offer $2,500 to the first aeronaught to fly across the Channel in a machine heavier than air before January 1, 1910.

Paris Matin offers $50,000 to the winner of an aerial race in France in 1908.

The Deutsch-Archdeacon Grand Prix of $10,000 to the first aeronaut who flies a kilometre in a closed circuit has not yet been won. Open to heavier than air machines.

30 Dec 1906.
THE 1907 THOMAS CARS.
The "Flyer" Is Faster Than Ever and a Better Hill Climber Than Its Predecessors.

The 1907 Thomas "Flyer" has been refined, perfected, simplified, lightened, strengthened and beautified.

It will prove faster, quieter, smoother, roomier, more comfortable, a still better hill climber, and quicker to get away, i.e., "lighter on its feet," than the 1906 "Flyer," which proved itself much the fastest American touring car made, and one of the most reliable cars ever constructed. It easily earned a place in the front rank among leading cars of the world.

The Thomas forty-horse is bound to create a furor of enthusiasm in its favor. It is faster and more powerful. The mechanism is a work of art of the very latest up-to-date pattern. The car will successfully cater to the demand for a light, speedy runabout, and a touring car that will comfortably seat five.

State Journal Columbus O'
30 Dec 1906.

The Coming Airship
Baltimore American.
Already the French Government is taking account of the changes that the introduction of the aerial navigation will make in the public service and the various departments of the government that will be affected are seeking to be in a state of preparation for the change. Great as has been the constructive force of the ocean liner, the locomotive and other inventions of the age, the airship is likely to surpass them in its influence upon the life of the race.

Herald New York
30 Dec. 1906.
IN CHARGE OF BEDFORD AVENUE ANNEX.

with one arm, is now the captain of the school football team, playing right tackle. Halstead led his men to victory last fall at the election day game with the Erasmus Hall High School team, and the championship and trophy of the Long Island Inter-Scholastic Athletic League was claimed for the Brooklyn High School. Discussion on this point is still rife, and the matter has been much before the public in the Brooklyn newspapers.

Objection has been raised by the other members of the league—the Erasmus High School and the "Poly Prep"—to the presence on the B. H. S. team of William J. O'Connell, who, it is said, was a student at Brown University at the time the game was played. This is denied by the Boys' High School, with the contention that O'Connell, after registering at Brown and learning the entrance conditions, returned to the Boys' High School with a view to preparing for Columbia, which he decided to enter in the spring. This explanation has not been accepted by the other schools in the league, with the result that at a recent meeting a surprise was sprung and the B. H. S. team "dropped" from membership in the league. Of course the B. H. S. team claims a voluntary withdrawal, and relations all around are at present some-