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1907. Secret
Staab [[?]]
15 Mar 1907
Aeronauten beim Liebesmahl.

Bartholomew Andrews als der Erfinder des ersten lenkbaren Luftidiffs.

Im Hotel St. Regis veranstaltete der "Aero Club of America" sein erstes jährliches Bansett. Präsident Cortlandt Field Bishop fungirte als Toastmaster und über 250 Ballonenthusiasten, darunter Kongressmitglied Herbert Parsons, der Nordpolfahrer Anton Fiala, Admiral Chester U. A. hatten sich als Gäste eingefunden.

Unter den Rednern des Abends erregte Herr G. B. Bronson, welcher den ersten erfolgreichen Ballon Aufstieg in New York im Jahre 1874 vom Thurme des alten Madison Square Garden aus unternahm und einmal volle 26 Stunden lang in den Lüften verweiste, mit seiner Ansprache beträchtliches Aufsehen. Er sagte, er sei in den lebten Wochen in den Besiß von Blänen und Dokumenten gekommen, aus nen unzweifelhaft hervorgehe, daß im Jahre 1862 Bartholomew And
von Berth Ambon, der Erfinder der 
schlußstüde an den Bostsäcken der
regierung, eine Auffahrt in einem 
konstruirten, lenkbaren Lustschiffe 
nommen habe. Er habe 20 Spirale 
von 1 1/2 Meilen Länge, in 14 Minuten 
fahren. Das ergiebt eine Gesch
keitsrate von 130 Meilen die Stund
Lustschiff sei aus drei cigarrens
Ballons konstruirt gewesen, die
lang waren und einen Durchmesser 
Fuß besaßen. Der Redner sagte
Dokumente im Besiße von Dr.
Kitchell seien und die Absicht be
Lustschiff gleicher Arbeit zu erb
welchem man den Weltrekord 
hoffe. Der Name Bartholomew 
werde dann für die Lustschifffah
Bedeutung haben, wie der Robert Fulton's für die Dampfschifffahrt. 

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15 Mar 1907

BIG BALLOON RACE
Contest for World Championship on St. Louis Next October.

The cup for the world's championship for balloon racing, now the property of the Aero Club of America, which also is the youngest of the aero clubs, is to be raced for at St. Louis in October. France, England, Germany, Spain and America will enter three balloons each and Italy one.
The Aero Club of America held its first annual dinner at the Hotel St. Regis last night. "By a coincidence," said President Bishop, "the Aero Club of France, the oldest of the aero clubs, has its dinner at the same time. We sent them a congratulatory cable despatch and received one in return."

NEW YORK TO BE IN BIG BALLOON RACE
Will Act as One of Representatives of United States at St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, March 15.-St Louis, New York and Philadelphia will be the official representatives of the United States in the international balloon race which is to be held in this city in October. 
Each competing country is entitled to three entries. Secretary Kearney, of the St. Louis Aero Club, received word from Philadelphia last night that it would be on hand with a big balloon

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the astounding speed of 
Mr. Bronson, who in 1874 made a flight from the old tower of Madison Square Garden, refused to divulge the nature of the motive power used by Dr. Andrews, but intimated that mechanism employed by the New Jersey man may solve the vexed problem of aerial navigation.
Mr. Bronson intends to resurrect the theories of the doctor, long since dead, and to try to build an airship after his plans. If he succeeds, no other machine yet devised will be able to show such a speed as his.
Dr. Andrews, Mr. Bronson said, made a trip of twenty "spirals," each one a mile and a half long, in fourteen minutes. This makes a speed of 130 miles an hour. The airship was constructed of three cigar-shaped balloons, eighty feet long and thirty feet in diameter. 
Dr. Francis Kitchell, who was at last night's dinner, now has the documents mentioned. He and Mr. Bronson hope to shatter all world's records for aerial flights in a balloon to be built on the lines laid down by Dr. Andrews.
Among the guests were Alfred N. Chandler, president of the Aero Club of Philadelphia; L. D. Dozier, president of the Aero Club of St. Louis; Colgate Hoyt, president of the Automobile Club of America; Harry St. George Tucker, president of the Jamestown Exposition, John S. Wise; Daniel C. Nugent, of St. Louis; E. B. Bronson, Burgess Johnson, Congressman Herbert Parsons, Anthony Fiala, the Arctic explorer; Admiral C. M. Chester, James E. Smith, of St. Louis, and McCurdy Sykes, the aeronaut.
The club is making preparations for the annual aeronautic contest, the first to take place in America, at the Jamestown Exposition this Summer, hence the presence of the officials of the exposition. 
Cortlandt Field Bishop, president of the Aero Club of New York, was toastmaster and stated that even while the diners were sitting in the St. Regis, the Aero Club of France was holding its annual banquet, so the two continents aeronautically, were in communication. The two clubs exchanged cablegrams.
The following letter was read from the Wright brothers:–
"It certainly would give us great pleasure to attend the Aero Club dinner, but we cannot conveniently make a trip East at this time. We send our best wishes.
"As we have done no outdoor work since 1905, we have no new records to report, nor are our plans for future flights in such shape that we can make a public announcement. But we certainly expect to fly again before the year is over: and while we cannot promise that the flights will be public, we can assure you that they will effectually remove all question that the flying art originated in America.
"As to the matter of prizes which you mention, it is our view that the conditions of the early prizes should be such as to stimulate the inventor, rather than the operator. If the conditions are made so hard that the inventors will despair of win-[[?cutoff]] but others may come in and act as "chaperons."
The names of the three men who will act as pilots have been made known. Allan R. Hawley will have charge of the St. Louis balloon. His competitors will be Lieut, Frank Lahm,  of the United States Army, and J. C. McCoy, of New York. McCoy and Lahm will decide between themselves which balloon each will pilot.
The St. Louis Club has had made an aeronautic man of the city, 2000 copies of which have been printed and are being sent by Secreatry Kearney to all parts of the globe. On its margin is a record of the balloon flights which have been made from this and other cities in this country, which includes the longest that is a matter of record up to 1900.
This was the flight of John Wise from this city in 1859, and which ended in Henderson, N. Y., the distance covered being 1,150 miles.