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1907 Issue 3 Monday at Baddeck 
Post Dispatch St. Louis
24 Mar 1907

[[image: balloons showing elevation and names of previous competitors]]  37,000 Glaisher Coxwell estimated
34,400 Berson Suering
29,000 Glaisher Coxwell registered
27,500 Spencer Berson 
26,160 Tissandier Croce-Spinelli Sivel
24,000 Usuelli Crespi
22,977 Guy Lussac
22,300 Uselli Crespi 
20,670 Spelterin
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BALL
What the Coming Racers Will Have to Do to Beat Previous Competitors in Elevation and Time.

ance record from St. Louis in 1900 by making a voyage of 1200 miles. It had previously remained, since July 2 1859, to the credit of John Wise, who sailed from St. Louis on July 1 of that year on a flight of 1150 miles landing in Jefferson County, New York. He was accompanied by John La Mountain, Troy, N.Y.; D. A. Gager, Bennington, Vt., and William Hyde of St. Louis. When they reached the earth they were more dead than alive. 

Count Henri de la Vaulx has visited St. Louis on different occasions and was here during the World's Fair. His family is related to a St. Louis family, a cousin having married Miss Dillon of this city, and his favorable attitude toward the selection of St. Louis for the balloon races next fall further centered local attention on him. 

He has performed many extraordinary feats in ballooning—the greatest being when he secured the world's long-distance record, and will be one of the chief contestants to assemble here in October. 

In company with Count Castillon de Saint-Victor, Count de la Vaulx sailed, in 1900, in the balloon Centaure, from Paris to Kovostycheff, Russia. The distance is actually a little short of 1200 miles, so Count de la Vaulx won the record from St. Louis by less than fifty miles. 

Had either Wise or Count de la Vaulx sailed from St. Louis on their record-making trips in any of several directions other than that taken by Wise, the result would probably have been different. Had they gone due east—the prevailing direction of the upper air currents over St. Louis—they would have landed 400 miles out in the Atlantic Ocean off the cost of North Carolina. Going south, they would have alighted in the tropical wilderness of Yuca[tan.]
A proper course to the Southwest would have ca[rried] them within 50 to 100 miles of the [Gulf of] Mexico.

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