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1907 March 16 Saturday at Baddeck [[strikethrough]] 68 Times New York 27 Jan 1907 AROUND IN BALL Ralph Plans for Capt. Lovelace Hero of South Arranges With thirteen South American auxilliary yawl Brandreth, will from the dock of at the foot of Brooklyn, for a around the world. Lovelace, who was in Navy during the be in command Brandeth, who is patent medicine the position of yacht. The unique however, will be that will of the world in "This will really around the world" Captain last night, years of his life in in different South and yet he is on the sunny side of 40 years of age. Ralph Brandreth himself is but 23 years old, but he has traveled extensively, and while visiting Panama during the time that the secession occurred from the Republic of Colombia he ran across the Captain while the latter was in command of the gunboat Orienta, the flagship of the Panama Navy. For several weeks he was Capt. Lovelace's guest, and with unlimited time and means at his disposal he formulated the idea of making a long tour around the world, which should embody features that had never been attempted before. Mrs. Margaret Brandreth, his mother, who lives at Bellport, L.I., readily consented to the plan for the opportunities it presented for a liberal and practical education for a young man of leisure, and upon investigating Capt. Lovelace's qualifications for commanding such an expedition she immediately engaged him to take entire charge of the trip. Balloon a Necessity. This was several months ago. Ralph Brandreth, although ignorant of aeronautics, appreciated the possibilities of balloons as an aid to the sightseeing enjoyments of South American countries and the South Sea Islands, and he stipulated that after the proper boat was found a balloon must be the next thing. The balloon Eagle was therefore purchased from Leo Stevens, and had it not been for Logistilla Second and Sir Third in $10,000 Handicap. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 26.-Kerche ur-year-old colts, by the Commoner or Tom Boy, ridden by Koerner, Handicap to-day by two lengths spectators. Logistilla was second while Sir Edward secured the third two lengths in advance of Ramus , the favorite, was fifth. The winn at 8 to 1. When the books opened Nealon at 2 to 1, while the Jennings pairs were mixed at 4 to 1. received the strongest kind of support was a wild scrabble to get on cutting the prices to 6 at post time. There was little delay at the post, was excellent. Proper and Sir to the first turn. At the half Sir away for several lengths, when Nealon fell back beaten. Jockey after his field with Kercheval, stretch was reached he was on the pacemakers, and after a mild went about his business, and fast-coming Logistilla. Hildreth's to leave the post, closed resolutely Sir Edward, although fading away, third from Ramus. Proper beaten, and pulled up in the Three favorites and three outsiders various events. Weather cloudy and slow. Mile and a quarter, the Burns three-year-olds and upward; purse, 102 pounds, (Koerner,) 8 to Logistilla, 123, (Sandy,) 5 to 1, Edward, 111. (Graham,) 8 to 1, third. 08 1-5. Ramus, Nealon, Dr. Leggo, Rapid Water, Proper, Princess, Borghesi, and Lizaro also ran. Poor Sleighing on the Speed Not more than half a dozen sleigh on the Speedway Drive yesterday was in poor condition through but the fall in the thermometer Pioneer Press St. Paul 27 January 1907 BALLOON CAN RESIST WIND. Power is Obtained by Movement of the Spiral Line. (Special Cable to the Central News and Pioneer Press.) Rome, Jan. 26.-After lengthy experiments, Signor Rafaele Rouco has constructed a new kind of steerable balloon, which has given good results. The apparatus is composed of a small spherical balloon, a little more than three feet in diameter, and furnished with a special rudder and spiral line. The balloon is able to resist a contrary wing and to navigate against it. this resistance is obtained by a movement of the spiral line and not the rudder, as is the case with most steerable balloons. Pioneer Press St. Paul 27 January 1907 IN BALLOONS, VIEW ECLIPSE. Astronomers Will Go Into Mid-Air to Study. (Special Cable to the Ceneral News and Pioneer Press.) St. Petersburg, Jan. 26.-There are to be four eclipses during 1907; two will be solar, one total and one annular, and two lunar, of which both will be partial. There will also be a transit of Mercury next November. The total eclipse of the sun was on Jan. 14, and was visible in Eastern Europe, in Northeast Africa and in Asia, with the exception of the eastern half of Siberia. The annular eclipse, on July 10, will be visible in South America and across the ocean as far as the southwestern coast of Africa. The transit of Mercury will be visible in Western Europe. A remarkable feature of the measures taken to secure the best astronomical results from these eclipses is the extent to which balloons will be used. In all, there are to be about forty stations at which observations, meteorological and astronomical, will be taken in mid-air. For meteorological purposes, captive sounding balloons, equipped with automatic registration apparatus, will suffice. At certain favorable points, however, astronomers and meteorologists will themselves go up in balloon cars equipped as observatories. Post Dispatch St. Louis 27 Jan 1907 It was announced on Wednesday at the instance of President Bishop of the Aero Club of America that an American prize, said to reach $200,000, will soon be forthcoming to encourage the "navigation of the air." At the same meeting of the Aero Club, St. Louis announced additional prizes for the coming international balloon contest in this city. Ohio is still making claims that it has the problem of the successful airship already solved and that its inventors will prove it to the satisfaction of the world, perhaps before the year is out. Still another claim is that Poulsen be able to supply "wireless
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