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1907 February 22. Friday at Baddeck

Herald Chronicle
4 Jan 1907. Houston Texas

INTERNATIONAL BALLOON RACE.
Will start From St. Louis on October 19, 1907.
By Associated Press.
New York, Jan 3.—Cortlandt Field Bishop, president of the Aero Club of America, announced upon his return to New York last night from St. Louis that October 19 had been selected for the date of the international cup race, the start to be made from St. Louis where it had been demonstrated by tests that gas of the best quality is to be had in practically unlimited quantities.

Mail London Inq.
4 Jan 1907.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)
VIENNA, Monday, Dec. 31.
Captain F. Faber, of the French Artillery, who is well known as an experienced aeronaut, and has been granted leave in order to be able to complete an aeroplane invented by himself, publishes in the "Neue Freie Presse" an article entitled "From the first step to the first flight." The captain explains his aeronautical studies, and ridicules those who believe that the art of flying has been theoretically brought to fruition and only needs to be put into practice.
"To invent a flying machine is nothing; to build one is not much - to test it is everything," he says. M. Santos Dumont only obtained his success by constant fresh experiments. Even so, he has merely discovered that only one propeller can be used without danger of the aeroplane capsizing, and that it is possible to ascend from the ground without erecting expensive landing-stages. The latter achievement gives the aeroplane real practical utility.
Captain Faber is convinced that the art of aviation will develop to such an extent that within a short time it will occupy the same position as motoring. He expects great results from the year 1907, and believes that great improvements, and possibly startling discoveries, will be made. He hope that the brothers Wright may consent to exhibit their invention, and that someone may win the "Daily Mail" prize and other offers which have been made in England for the encouragement of aviation.

Tribune New York.
4 Jan 1907

AERO CLUB MEN BACK.
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Pathfinder Washington DC.
4. Jan 1907

SOLVING AIRSHIP PROBLEM.Santos • Dumont's Latest Experiments Foreshadow Success.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
IF any United Statesian wants to secure the credit of being the first to navigate the air in an independent airship, as Fulton secured the credit of making the first steamboat, he had better get diligent for if he even stops to spit on his hands now he may miss winning the laurels. Scores of skilled students of the subject in foreign lands are working night and day on this greatest of present scientific problems and hardly a day passes that some progress is not reported.
A number of investigators in America have contributed much to the subject, but the matter of making an airship that will actually fly seems to be still as elusive as a will-o'-the-wisp. One difficulty is that it takes money to carry on airship experiments, and the capitalists are few who care to risk cash on a scheme so airy as the conquest of the sole element which has hitherto resisted man's enterprise. The Wright brothers, the Ohio young men who for several years have been experimenting with soaring apparatus, claim to have gone beyond all competitors in navigating with machines heavier than the air. As reported in the PATHFINDER at the time, they have made various flights of some miles in extent with a power-propelled aeroplane which was at all times under the perfect control of the operator, according to a number of credible witnesses. It was claimed that they had sold their invention to the French government for $100,000, to be utilized for military purposes, but the public is naturally skeptical where there is such a show of secrecy.
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