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[[?]] New York
26 Jan 1907.

BRITISH AERONAUT TO RETURN HERE EARLY
The Hon. C.S. Rolls Sails To-Day to Make Preparations for International Cup Race.
England's premier aeronaut and one of her leading automobilists, the Hon. Charles S. Rolls, will sail for home to-day on the steamer Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. This has been the first visit of Mr. Rolls to this country. He came over last November, intending to remain about two or three weeks, but he found so much of automobile interest to attact his attention that his stay was prolonged to two months, and during that time he has exhibited his new six-cylinder Rolls-Royce car in both of the New York automobile shows.
Mr. Rolls has been selected by the Aero Club of Great Britain as one of its three representatives for the international cup balloon race, to be held in St. Louis on October 19. Since the announcement of his selection two weeks ago, Mr. Rolls has been in conference with the officers of the Aero Club of America, and several of his suggestions were adopted by the club in the rules just framed for the Lahm cup competition.
"I am highly pleased," he said yesterday, "at the arrangements for the race. While I was unable to go to St. Louis., its situation seems an ideal place for a long distance balloon race, and as the best aeronauts of France and Great Britain will be here I expect that the event will be one of the best balloon contests of the year. I shall probably bring over for the race the same balloon which I used in the last race, the first international cup contest, which started from Paris.  I shall at once begin preparations for the event, and I hope to return to America early in October, so as to make one or more ascensions before the cup competition."
Mr. Rolls got third place in the last race, which was won by Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm, of this country. His balloon is known as the Britannia, and it has a capacity of 77,500 cubic feet of gas, one of the largest balloons in Europe.
Mr. Rolls also added that as soon as he arrives in London he will begin preparations for the coming tourist trophy race which is to be held in the Isle of Man. Mr. Rolls won the cup last fall with the 20-horse power car that has been among the competitors in the Ormond races this week. The coming race will be 240 miles in length, and the rules just adopted by the Automobile Club of Great Britain stipulate that the contestants, will be limited to one gallon of gasolene for every twenty-give miles.
"I have been more than surprised at the great growth of the automobile industry in this country," said Mr. Rolls. "I have made a careful study of nearly all the best American Machines, and I have no hesitancy in saying that they are fully equal to any in the world.  In the development of six cylinder cars the manufacturers here are not quite up to the best types abroad.  Some of the newest six cylinder machines I have seen appear too bulky, too large and uncouth in design and construction, but in a short time that will be improved. The demand for such cards does not seem to be as great here as it is in England, but with the changes that are bound to come in more compact motors and a great simplicity in mechanism I am sure that this style of car will soon experience a wide measure of popularity and will be generally recognized as the luxurious, easy riding, comfortable machine."

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Standard Bridgeport
26 Jan 1907 Conie.

ABOVE THE CLOUDS IN INTENSE COLD.
Leo Stevens and Captain Lovelace Make Balloon Trip From Pittsfield Despite Winter Weather.
Pittsfield, Mass., Jan. 26-Up 3,000 feet in the air, with the thermometer at 40 degrees below zero, Leo Stevens and Captain T. T. Lovelace, of New York, had a unique balloon experience yesterday afternoon.  It was so cold in the upper currents of a raging snow storm that their hands were bonumbed and the gas condensed so rapidly they had to drop.
Starting from Aero Park, at 3:11 p.m. the aeronauts were in the air 29 minutes. They landed three miles away, near the government mill in Pittsfield Dalton road at 3:40.
Two carrier pigeons were taken along. One of themr released at a height of two thousand feet, died of exhaustion and cold soon after it reached its cote at the Wendell farm. 
"I was never so cold in my life before," said Mr. Stevens. "I tried to get the Captain to write a note and tie it to the pigeon's leg, but he could not move his fingeres. I could hardly guideline the valve rope.
"When I saw we could not stay up any longer I shouted to some men who were cutting ice near the government mill and told them to grap the anchor rope.  They dragged us nearly half a mile to the trolley tracks and we caught a car to Pittsfield.
"I have shown by this trip that ballooning in midwinter in the Bershires is practicable. I wanted to show Captain Lovelace how to start, how to pilot and land, all of which was successfuly accomplished."
A snowstorm from the northeast, with the thermometer near zero, kept the aeronauts in their hotel all the forenoon, but toward noon the weather partially cleared and they decided to make a short trip.  The snow was cleared away from a space in the park [[and?]] the ballon was spread on the [[frozen?]] pond.
Gas was turned on at 1:30 very slowly, because the cold cracked the [[silk?]] envelope.  As the gas had little lifting power, only 25 pounds of ballast was taken along. The wind was blowing lightly from the southwest.
Scarcely 20 persons were in the park Dr. F. Fiedermann Edler von Teuber, of Vienna, a former lieutenant in the Austrian army, took a lot of pictures. The Doctor and Captain Lovelace are to make a trip to Panama soon and will take the ballon with them.