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[[note 1]] 1907 June 3. Monday - at Baddeck
Times Buffalo N.Y.
24 Mar 1907 [[/note 1]]
Made Forty-Five-Mile Aerial Trip
Special to The Buffalo TIMES.
ST. LOUIS, March 23.--A test balloon ascension was made today by J. K. Campbell in the interest of international balloon races to be held here in October under the auspices of the Aero Club of America.
The aeronaut was up two hours and 40 minutes and travelled 43 miles northeast, landing at Sorrento, Ill.
The trip was declared a successful  test of the gas to be used during the races.

[[note 2]] Times Buffalo, 24 Mar 1907 [[/note 2]]
PLANS HONEYMOON TRIP IN FLYING MACHINE
Special to the Buffalo TIMES.
SYRACUSE, March 23.--J. Albert Plant, of No. 609 Willis Avenue, has invented a flying machine propelled by a 24 horse power motor, with which he says he will take his recently wedded wife on a honeymoon.
The young inventor is 24 years old and has been working on the machine two years. The machine is run by fans, and will go 40 miles an hour. It is a foot wide, 28 feet long and 14 feet high. He will take fuel to last two days.

[[note 3]] New York Herald Paris 
25 March 1907 [[/note 3]]
MR. HAWLEY PREPARING FOR BIG BALLOON RACE.
He makes an Ascent from Philadelphia, Landing Near Sea at Atlantic City.
[By commercial cable to the HERALD.]
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sunday.--Under the auspices of the Aero Club of America Mr. Alan R. Hawley, of New York, and Mr. A. N. Chandler, of this city, made a successful ascension in the balloon Initial shortly before one o'clock yesterday afternoon, Guided by a south-east wind, the balloon sailed in the direction of the sea-coast, and a landing was made near Atlantic City, sixty miles from this city, after the balloonists had been in the air two hours and forty minutes. The balloon was brought to ground dangerously near the sea.
Mr. Hawley is one of the defenders selected by America to compete for the Coupe Internationale des Aéronautes, and yesterday's ascension was only one of many he contemplates making in preparation for the great race.

[[note 4]] Commercial New York
25 Mar 1907 [[/note]]
BALLOON TO HOLD NINE MEN.
Largest One in America Soon to Be Completed in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, March 24.--The largest balloon in America is now being built in this city for the Philadelphia Aero Club, of which A. N. Chandler, a broker, is president. The balloon, which will hold 92,000 cubic feet of gas, will be christened the "Ben" Franklin, and is expected to be finished in three weeks. Members of the local aeronaut club hope to make a trial trip in the "Ben" Franklin the latter part of April.
The basket of the new balloon will be capable of holding nine persons, and will be the finest in existence. Several balloons of a smaller type are under way and will be finished the early part of the summer. Plans have been made for a number of ascensions at Point Breeze during the spring and summer months, and a number of balloon enthusiasts who will compete in the races to be held at St. Louis in October for the Gordon Bennett cup will make trial trips in this city.

[[note 5]] Commercial New York
25 Mar - 1907. [[/note 5]]
Italy Barred From Balloon Race.
Cortlandt F. Bishop, president of the Aero Club of America, has received word that the International Aeronautic Federation had decided against the acceptance of the two Italian entries for the Gordon-Bennett Cup, same having been filed after the official closing of the entry list.

[[note 6]] [[?]] Post - New York
25 Mar 1907 [[/note 6]]
Germany's practising with artillery against balloons high up int he air may be preliminary training for the approaching contest with the disarmament cranks in the Hague conference.

[[note 7]] [[?]] - New York
25 Mar - 1907 [[/note 7]]
Philadelphia to Have America's Biggest Balloon.
PHILADELPHIA, March 24.--The largest balloon in America is now being built in this city for the Philadelphia Aero Club, of which A. H. Chandler is president. The balloon, which will hold 92,000 cubic feet of gas, will be christened the "Ben Franklin," and is expected to be finished in three weeks. Members of the local club hope to make a trial trip in the Franklin the latter part of April.

[[note 8]] Tribune New York
24 Mar 1907 [[/note 8]]
BALLOON LANDS NEAR SEA
Two Men Make Trip from Philadelphia in the Initial.
Philadelphia, March 23.--Under the auspices of the Aero Club of America, Alan R. Hawley, of New York, and A. N. Chandler, of this city made a successful ascension in the balloon initial from the southern part of this city shortly before 1 o'clock to-day, and, guided by a south-east wind, sailed in the direction of the sea-coast. Leo Stevens, who was expected to make the ascension, was unable to take the trip because of a slight indisposition.
The balloon landed near Atlantic City, sixty miles from this city, after being in the air about two hours and forty minutes. The balloon was brought to the ground dangerously near the sea.