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later in the committee room of the Aero Club, New York City.

Tribune New York
2 Jan 1907..

ST. LOUIS GETS RACE.
Bennett Cup Contestants Can Have
3,000,000 Feet of Gas if Needed
St. Louis, Jan. 1.--While the Aero Club of America has specified that only 1,500,000 cubic feet of pure coal gas shall be required for the contestants in the race of the Fédérations Nationales Aéronautiques here next October, the promise has been given to the Aero Club committee that 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas will be furnished if desired.

The Aero Club committee has positively decided upon St. Louis as the starting place for the Bennett Cup races. The selection of the balloon park in St. Louis has been left in the hands of the Business Men's League. Courtlandt Field Bishop, president of the club, said to-day that any one of the sites inspected by the committee would be satisfactory. It is probable that some spot in Forest Park will be selected.

A tentative organization of the Aero Club of St. Louis has been accomplished, with L. D. Dozier as president. The new club will take an active interest in preparing for the international balloon races.

Free-Mail. Buffalo. N. Y.
2 Jan 1907.

AERO CLUB MEMBBERS HAD AN ASCENSION
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 2.--The International Aero Club, which has selected St. Louis as the site for the start of the International balloon races next October, yesterday afternoon, as a test, sent up the balloon Orient, which was expanded by 35,000 cubic feet of gas. The ascension was made by Alan R. Hawley and J. C. McCoy, members of the club.

The balloon rose about 1000 feet and then started westward.

Early today the balloon landed safely near Pearl, Ill., 86 miles northeast.

The aeronauts said they were out of sight of the earth most of the time. The highest altitude registered was 2100 feet.

World New York.
2 Jan 1907
PRELIMINARY FLIGHT FROM ST. LOUIS.
Balloon Orient Makes a Trip to 
Determine Conditions for 
the Cup Race.

(Special to The World.)

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1.-Alan R. Hawley and J. C. McCoy, members of the New York Aero Club, who made an ascension here to-day in the Orient, alighted safely this afternoon in a field near Cliffdale, Ill.

Owing to the fact that no word was received from them until after 11 o'clock, considerable anxiety was experienced for their safety, inasmuch as arrangement had been made to hear from them as soon as they should land.

There was no mishap in the ascension or in the landing and the trip proved highly satisfactory. The aeronauts report that at times they were so high in the air that they were out of sight of land. A mean altitude of 2,100 feet was maintained. At this height the temperature was about forty degrees above zero.

The ascension this afternoon was a preliminary to determine the conditions about St. Louis for the Bennett Cup international contest next October. The gas bag was inflated in a trifle over an hour and then all was made ready.

The balloon rose almost straight into the air when it was released until it was about one thousand feet high. Then it got in an air current which carried it to the northwest.

After rising higher into the air, the balloon evidently got into a contrary current and was swept across the river into Illinois.


Aeronauts to Race and Talk at
Jamestown Exposition.
Jamestown, Va., wants to have the contest for the Lahm Cup held there at its exposition, which opens on April 26, at which there will be many balloon races. St. Louis is practically sure of being the starting point of the Bennett Cup race, but Jamestown wants the other big aerial event.

Augustus Post is chairman of the executive committee of the Jamestown Aeronautical Congress, the organization of which was perfected last month. The committee is arranging for a series of demonstrations and experiments with the latest developments in aerostatics. In addition to actual flights, the committee is gathering as complete an exhibit of aeronautical material as possible. The collection will include all the material already gathered by the Aero Club here. Scientists have been invited to read papers before the congress on aeronautical subjects.

Cups and trophies of value will be offered for the various aerial contests by the committee. Because of the Bennett and Lahm races, there will be many distinguished foreign sportsmen here this summer and fall, and efforts will be made to have them all meet at Jamestown just before or after the Bennett race.

The various committees of the congress and their chairmen are: Gas, Dr. David T. Day; meterological, Willis L. Moore; executive, Augustus Post; technical, Charles M. Manly; congresses and programme, A. Lawrence Rotch; exhibition, Richard Rathbun; contests, Cortlandt Field Bishop; general, William J. Hammer. The president is Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.

Tribune - New York.
2 Jan 1907.

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Image: black and white photograph of a box-cell wing type aircraft just getting its wheels off the ground. People stand nearby watching; trees line the airfield in the background.