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1907, May 31, Friday at Baddock No 13 Journal Kansas City Mo 10 May 1907-Post Post Dispatch St Louis 10 May 1907 AERIAL NAVIGATION GERMANY BENT ON SOLVING THE PROBLEM LOTTERY TO RAISE FUNDS GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS PLAN TO SECURE MONEY. Expected to Secure Enough to Permit Count Zeppelin to Continue His Experiments With a Dirigible Airship on Lake Constance. (By BERNARD FISCHER) BERLIN, March 9. - Considerable attention is being paid just at present in Germany to the problem of aerial navigation and the papers are devoting much space to reviews of Rudolf Martin's new book, "Berlin-Bagdad," in which the author predicts for his country a great empire attained by means of a fleet of airships. It is now announced that the government has sanctioned a lottery to raise funds to enable Count Zeppelin to continue his experiments with a dirigible balloon on Lake Constance. The tickets will cost $1 each and 20,000 of them are to be issued. Erich Finger, the 14-year-old schoolboy who was run over in Potsdam the other day by the carriage in which the emperor's daughter was driving with the bride-elect of Prince August Wilhelm, is receiving special care and attention by order of the empress. He is being treated by the emperor's personal physician and has been placed in charge of a nursing sister. A few days after the accident his heart was made glad by a visit from her majesty and Princess Victoria Louisa. The lad is suffering from internal injuries, but is well on the road to recovery. Princess Marries a Secretary. A great stir is still being caused in German high society by the marriage of Princess Augusta Eulenberg, daughter of the emperor's favorite, Prince Philip Eulenberg, to Herr Emil Jorallinek, her father's former private secretary. Herr Emil Jorallinek is a Roumanian of plebeian birth without means. Princess Augusta, who is now 24 years of age, fell in love with Herr Jorallinek at her father's country house, where the two young people seized clandestine opportunities of becoming acquainted with one another. Prince Philip offered absolute opposition to the unequal match, but finally gave way and granted a reluctant consent. He is said to have granted the pair a small annual income of about $1000 on condition that they remove to some distant place and hold no communication with him or other members of his family. The princess loses her title and becomes plain Frau Jorallinek. She sacrifices all other privileges of her princely rank. She will, of course, be obliged to live far more modestly than hitherto. Discovery of an Ancient Will. A curious story is reported her from Fuerstenwalde, a town situated about thirty miles east of Berlin. According to the local press, a certain curator of the Bank of England recently discovered a will or similar document dated 1745, leaving the testator's property consisting of $25,000, which was then deposited in the bank, to a family named Windel, which was living in the village of Fuerstenberg, in Baden. The conditions of international intercourse then prevailing prevented the due delivery of the money, and in course of time the document was forgotten until the present year. In the meantime the money bearing compound interest, had reached the sum of $6,250,000. News of this fortune and the discovery of the document lately reached a family named Windel, now living at Fuerstenberg. Their representatives have accordingly left for London to claim the fortune on the strength of papers which they believe amply establish their lineal descent from the family of the same name living in the village of Fuerstenwalde at the time the will was dated. According to the report circulating here the document contains further provision wherby in case the Windels fail to establish their claim to the fortune the money shall be paid to the authorities of Fuerstenwalde for the common benefit of its inhabitants. A German, a Belgian and a Dutchman, named Sauter, Flayler and Houten, respectively, have just been arrested by the Berlin police for attempting to spread sedition in the kaiser's army. They are three dangerous spirits of the international anarchist movement and have charge of the distributing of large quanti- Post Dispatch St Louis 10 Mar. 1907 AERIAL RACE FROM SHEET NECESSARY FOR FALL EVENTS Prof. Rotch, of Harvard, Brings the Correct "Dope" to St. Louis for the Balloon Enthusiasts Who Will Follow the Bennett Cup Contests. The balloon enthusiast will want to refer to a form sheet next October when the aerial races are taking place just over St. Louis, and Professor A. Lawrence Rotch, founder and director of Blue Hill Observatory, part of Harvard University, at Hyde Park, Mass has brought the correct "dope" to the city. No one need expect to be classed as up in the air during the coming sky racing season unless posted on speed limits in the teeth of stated wind velocity and the rules of handicapping big gas bags. There us about as much science about the game as the average "fan" finds in baseball. Prof. Rotch is well equipped to give St. Louis its first lesson is how to appreciate the fine points of balloning as a sport. His experience as an expert aerostatistician has made him an authority, both in this country and Europe, among scientists seeking to solve the problem of aerial navigation. Before the Round Table Club, at the St. Louis Clubhouse, Saturday night, he renewed the wide acquaintance gained during his service as a member of the Aerostatic Commission of the World's Fair. His paper was a discussion of "The Balloon in Science and Sport." St. Louis a Balloon Center. Prof. Rotch gave some interesting aerostatistics in a Post-Dispatch interview, which, he said, scientifically established St. Louis as the ballooning center of the United States. Her right to this claim has been demonstrated in 56 ascensions of small balloons during the past two years, begun under the co-operation of the Departments of Liberal Arts and Transportation of the Exposition and continued at intervals by Prof. Rotch. Reference has been made to these tests by the Post-Dispatch, but not until now has the cumulative results of the tests been announced. The descending parachutes bearing the meteorological instruments that registered temperature at various altitudes and the speed attained while traveling on different aerial currents, came to earth safely in every one but three instances, after the balloons burst. A minimum temperature of 110 degrees below zero was recorded here in January, 1905, at a height of nine miles. This is the lowest natural temperature ever recorded in our atmosphere. Eight of the balloons, each carrying 100 cubic feet of gas, at an average height of 6000 feet, moved 11 degree north of west while making a speed of 25 miles an hour. Thirteen balloons traveled three degrees north of west, at an average height of 12,000 feet, while making 38 miles an hour. Sixteens balloons, at an average height of 20,000 feet, moved five degrees north of west under a speed of 56 miles an hour. Nine balloons, moving at a height of 26,000 feet, went nine degrees north of west at a speed of 47 miles an hour. These conclusions, says Prof. Rotch, were substantiated by observations of moving clouds made at Blue Hill Observatory. The greatest height recorded during the St. Louis balloon observations showed an extremely low temperature, even in July, 1905, when the meteorlogical register indicated 75 degrees below zero at a height of 47,000 feet, where the balloon burst. Speaking of the approaching international contest next October, he ventured the opinion that the racing balloons should reach an altitude of about one mile, where they would move south of east at a speed of about 25 miles an hour. The temperature at that time of the year he indicated as moderately low. "Ballooning as a sport," says Prof. Rotch, only came into popular favor recently. It was begun by Berlin Aeronautical Society in 1881. Its members since that time made 95 ascensions, including one that attained an altitude if 34,000 feet. The Wegener brothers remained in the air for the record time of 53 hours. The French Aero Club made an instant success of ballooning as a sport when the society was organized in 1898. The Paris Exposition of 1900 encouraged the sport, by promoting 156 ascensions from the aerostatic park at Vincennes. Not a single accident marred the sport. Ballooning Popular Abroad. "An instance of the popularity of ballooning abroad is the fact that the countries which I will name achieve annually the number of ascensions that I give in this order: France, 350; Germany, 250; Belgium, 60; Italy, 33, Great Britain, 22; Spain, 20 and Switzerland 7. Of course these vary by one or two, but they represent a safe average record of numbers of times balloons are sent into the air every year in each of these countries. So the American people can get an idea of the intense enthusiasm which attends this aerial sport at the present stage of the world's progress. "It may be interesting as a matter of information to St. Louis and the thousands who will be attracted to this city by the aerial races to give some data concerning records and brilliant achievements in ballooning. In the final test at Paris in 1900, Count de la Vaulx traveled 1200 miles through the air in 25 hours and 45 minutes, the distance measured on the earth's surface being measured from Paris to some point in Russia. On July 4, 1859, Prof. Wise, ascending from St. Louis, traveled from this city to Henderson, N. Y., a distance of about 900 miles, in 19 hours. "During the past year, three noteworthy achievements mark the progress of the sport. The first of these was the international aerial race last October with Paris as the starting point. It was won by Lieut. Frank P. Lahm of West Point. He was driven across the English Channel into England, after traversing a distance of 400 miles. This was the first time the Channel had been crossed in a balloon. "A similar event in the same month was the contest at Berlin for prizes offered by the German Emperor and the Berlin Aeronautic Society on the celebration of its twenty-fifth anniversary. With light winds contestants traveled long distances, several of them remaining in the air for 24 hours. This race was notable from the standpoint that every balloon was handicapped according to capacity. [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] was the passage of construction of dirigible balloons it is necessary to say that the motor-explosive engine is the only one so far discovered that can be used to navigate the air and this has its serious defects. As yet there are no airships fully adapted to military purposes, but the evolution of this problem may depend upon what will be constructed for peaceful pursuits."
