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26 1907 June 1, Saturday at Baddeck. Tribune New York 17-Mar 1907 ROGRESS IN AIRSHIPS. Wright Brothers Send Letter-Col- gate Hoyt's Prediction. With the great balloon trophy, the Bennett cup, nked by the Lahm cup, on view, the Aero Club America held its first annual dinner last night the St. Regis, with Courtlandt Field Bishop, us esident, presiding. Most of the diners came in eir automobiles, but when the next dinner is ld most of them were sure last night that they uld come in their airships. The Aero Club is ung, only eighteen months old, but it is old ough to have offspring, the Aero clubs of Phlla- phia and St. Louis, the presidents of which were esent to speak for the new sport. The Lahm cup is a challenge trophy to com- emorate the flight made by Lieutenant Frank rdy Lahm, U. S. A., of 402 miles, and it is neces- ry to duplicate his flight within the borders of is country to hold it. It represents a globular lloon, such as he won the Bennett cup with, that ophy showing a dirgible sausage shaped balloon. the entrance to the dining hall was the model a statue to represent aeronautics by Gutzon orgium, the friend of Paul Nocquet, the young ulptor who met death in the South Bay marshes ter a successful balloon trip. President Bishop read a cable dispatch of con= atulation from the Aero Club of France which SHEEP AND LAMBS - Receipts were 8 cars, or head, including 4 1/2 cars for slaughterers and 3 1/2 f market. Sheep were entirely nominal; lambs stead sold at $8 25 per 100 lb. and the whole range of mon to prime was quotable at $6 50@8 25. Dressed ton sold at 8@10c per lb; dressed lambs at 11 1/2 country dressed hothouse lambs at $5@$9 per carc Sales-Kerns Commission Company: 233 BUffalo l 77 lb average, at $8 25 per 100 lb. S. Sanders: 75 state lambs, 76 lb, at $8 25. HOGS - Receipts were 8 cars, or 1,404 head, incl less than half a car for the market. Prices steady. New York State hogs sold at $7 60 per 100 lb. Co dressed hogs slow at 9 1/2@10 1/2c per lb. Sales- S. Sanders: 33 state hogs, 164 lb average $7 60 per 100 lb; (late yesterday), 58 state hogs, 14 at $7 60; 3 roughs, 310 lb, at $6 60. Kerms Commission Company (late yesterday): 19 P sylvania hogs, 130 lb, at $7 70. S. Judd & Co. (late yesterday): 10 state hogs, 14 at $7 75; 2 roughs, 275 lb. at $6 75. OTHER MARKETS - BY TELEGRAPH Herald New York 15 Mar 1907 ANCIENT AERIAL IDEA AMAZES MEMBERS OF THE AREO CLUB [[image]] THE AEREON~ INVENTED BY SOLOMON ANDREWS. E.B. Bronson Describes Dirigible Balloon Invented by Dr. Solomon Andrews Half a Century Ago Which Made 120 Miles an Hour. Announcement was made at a dinner of the Aero Club of America, held at the Hotel St. Regis last night, of what was hailed as the rediscovery of a principle of aerial locomotion which, it is asserted, caused a dirigible balloon to sail under perfect control at a speed of 120 miles an hour almost half a century ago in Perth Amboy, N.J. It was like a voice from the grave when Edgar B. Bronson told the remarkable life story of Dr. Solomon Andrews and produced faded documents to substantiate his statements. Reaching the climax of his story, he told of the final experiment September 4, 1863, when, after years of labor, Dr. Andrews tried out what he called his "aereon." According to a report of the affair written at the time by a HERALD reporter and published in the HERALD on September 8, 1863, the airship, with rudder lashed, was turned loose by Dr. Andrews, executed circles of a mile and a half in circumference at high speed and finally disappeared. SLUMBERED FOR FORTY-FOUR YEARS. Quite as remarkable as the story itself to the Aero Club members was the fact that such a secret could have slumbered for forty-four years if it was all it purported to be. Mr. Bronson did not undertake to explain this remarkable feature of the matter, saying that he first heard of it at a dinner in Perth Amboy two weeks ago when the subject of aeronautics was being discussed. One of the men present at the dinner, Mr. Bronson said, who is an ardent antiquary, told the story and later showed Mr. Bronson letters, newspaper clippings, War Department documents and a lithograph which he had gathered from various sources. Mr. Bronson read the HERALD'S account of the final test of the aereon, in which the [[?ht]] of the airship is described, but no [[?nation]] is given as to the motive power [[em]]ployed. We have this week the pleasure to report the success of the most extraordinary [[?ion]] of the age, if not the most so of the world ever saw-at least the great[[?]] de in invention every made by a single individual," the HERALD of that date [[?]] For October last Dr. Solomon Andrews, [[?]] Amboy, N. J., commenced the proportion of a war aerostat for recon [[?]] purposes, on his own personal [[responsibility?]], not being able, after submitting [[this?]] to the War Department, to make [[utility?]] [[?]] Secretary of War see the into a machine which would go over position [[?]] and reconnoitre the force and [[?]] the enemy. [[?]] showed on the face of them to [[?]] not stupid that the machine could do otherwise than go ahead in any direction in which the bow was pointed that, too, with any amount of power [[?]] force which might be desired and [[whi reenbacks?]] would readily procure. RED LITTLE WEIGHT. "The [[?]] required and the propelling apparatus [[?]] only little weight to the aerostat. Whether of large or small dimensions, constantly it did not increase the dimensions [[of]] the aerostat beyond that of balloons of ordinary construction, much less in size than many that are now made. "The machine made by Mr. Andrews would carry up three men in addition to all the fixtures and paraphernalia for its forward movement. It contained 26,000 cubic feet of hydrogen gas. It carried him, weighing 172 pounds, and 256 pounds of ballast. "Its form was that of three cigars pointed at both ends, secured together at their longitudinal equators, covered by a net and supporting by 120 cords a car sixteen feet below under its centre. The car was twelve feet long, made of basket work, and was sixteen inches wide at the bottom. The aerostat, or cylindroids, were made of varnished linen, like ordinary balloons. "On Friday, the 4th inst., he made his last experiment and demonstrated to an admiring crowd the possibility of going against the wind and of guiding her in any and every direction with small rudder having only seventeen square feet of surface. "He made no long flight in one straight line, lest his modus operandi should be divulged, and by almost ingenious plan demonstrated her capabilities beyond all possibility of doubt, while he prevented a public knowledge of his method of propelling. MOVED RAPIDLY UPWARD. "She made twenty revolutions before she entered the upper strata of clouds, and was lost to view. She passed through the first strata of dense white clouds about two miles high, scattering them as she entered in all directions. "In her upward flight could be distinctly seen her rapid movement in a contrary direction to the moving clouds, and as she came before the wind passing by them with great celerity. "As she was distinctly seen thus to move both below and above the clouds on the clear blue sky at five o'clock in the afternoon, with the sun shining clear upon her, there could be no mistake or optical delusion to the beholder. "Until I have given a practical trial of the principle I do not care to make it known," Mr. Bronson said. "It is simple, apparently, and compressed air plays an important part in the workings of the device; only just how it works remains to be established." GREAT AERONAUTICAL EVENT. Cortlandt Field Bishop, president of the Aero Club, presided. In front of him on the guest table were the International Challenge and the Lahm Aeronautical cups, Mr. Bishop predicted that the contest next October for the International Cup will be the greatest aeronautical event ever known. When Mr. Bishop mentioned the name of Lieutenant Lahm, who won the cup for America, there were enthusiastic cheers. Mr. Bishop read a letter from the Wright Brothers, of Dayton, Ohio, in which the aeronauts said they expected to fly again this year. They could not promise to make the flight in public. Other speakers were Harry St. George Tucker, of the Jamestown Exposition Company; James E. Smith, president of the Business Men's League of St.Louis; Anthony Fiala, Burgess Johnson and McCready Sykes.
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