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of his entering this f the Aero Club of Switzerla ke the matter up with the Sw n with the federation in change ies ents have at St. Louis rt of this race at Forest Park. s will be fenced in and grand ed. Pure coal gas of a very good e pumped under pressure through main. It is probable that the test Aeronautic Corps will as- handling of the balloons. Club of St. Louis has been formed. Kearney as secretary, and how ership of more than three hun- s own clubhouse. A club is being anta Fé by Janes W. Price, a he Aero Club of America, who rned from China. Wellman and Major Henry B. e Wellman polar expedition are he America for their quarters at A reception will be tendered Aero Club of America go on Saturday, April 6, for club nestown Exposition a special ng erected to house aeronautical and hydrogen gas will be to all contestants. Cups and be offered at various times use of the exposition for aero- itions. Several well known spective cities to the exposition ies if possible. Applications which to exhibit aeronautic be addressed to Ernest LaRue at Fourty-second street. New a balloon race for distance on starting from the James- Alan R. Hawley, director of America; Alfred N. Chand- the Aero Club of Philadelphia the Jones, secretary James- d Congress, already have dre. eu - New York 31 Mar 1907 MANY NAMES SIX BALLOONS BIGGEST ENTRY IN THE INTERNATIONAL RACE. ons Will Be Represented in Contest at St. Louis Next October HOLDS WOR Made the First C Sailing Directly mit of FIFTY ASCENS Only Survivor of P Swept Into Terr To try to find so position of the Ae entries of the It international cha Louis next Oc Usuelli, one of t aeronauts, stop Thursday on his way back to Europe Mexico to confer with Cortlandt F. Bishop, president of the Aero Club of America. Italy is anxious to enter Signor Usuelli with Moris Moris Borsalino as alternate; A. Von-willer, with Lieutenant Cianefli as alternate, and Major Moris, with Professor Helbig as alternate, but there was a misunderstanding as to the last day for filing applications and the time limit expired before any of the entries were in. Unanimous consent of the clubs in the International Federation is necessary to admit the Italians under these conditions, and it is feared that it will not be obtained. The chief opposition is on the part of the Aero Club of France, but in the interests of true sportsmanship it is earnestly hoped by the members of the American club that advantage will not be taken of a technicality to limit the number of contestants. Signor Usuelli told Mr. Bishop that the misunderstanding arose chiefly because of a false account in an Italian newspaper, which announced that entries could be made until April 1. He had made his arrangements to be in New York before that date, he said, and had planned to make his application in person. LAHM FAVORS ITALIANS Frank S. Lahm, father of Lieutenant Lahm, who won the international Challenge Cup for America last autumn, and foreign representative of the Aero Club of America, is doing his utmost to win the consent of the foreign clubs to admit Italy's entries, and he will soon be joined by Mr. Bishop, who expects to sail on April 13. More than almost any of the other contestants entered the members of the American organization hope to see Signor Usuelli in the race because of the remarkable records he has made and his well recognized high type of sportsmanship. He won all world's records last November by being the first man to cross the Alps in a balloon, rising to a height of 28,930 feet, as he passed directly over the crest of Mont Blanc. He made fifty ascensions last year, and in one of his trips he was swept by a storm from Milan over Florence and finally to Ancona, on the Adriatic, where he and two companions were dropped into a raging sea, from which he was the only survivor. "It was on a night trip that my two poor friends lost their lives," said Signor Usuelli, in describing his experience early last June, when his balloon, the Regina Elena, was wrecked in the Adriatic. "We had ascended from Milan with the idea of crossing the Alps, a feat I had frequently attempted, as many others had, but we were carried southward and hovered over Florence early next morning. "There a storm struck us, and for two hours we rode the gale in a dense mist at a speed of eighty miles an hour. I know that was the speed because we were over Florence at seven o'clock and two hours later we sighted Ancona, one hundred and sixty miles away. We did not realize how fast we had been travelling, and when we first sighted the sea we were up fifteen thousand feet. IN STORM OVER SEA "It was too late then to land, and with only one hundred and forty pounds of ballast left out of one thousand pounds with which we had started I did not dare attempt to make the four hundred and fifty miles across the Adriatic. Our only hope was to drop into the sea near enough to the shore to be rescued. I pulled hard on the escape valve cord, and we fell rapidly through the mist until we struck the water. "At the instant our basket struck the billows it was snapped off from the balloon, which was whirled away over our heads. Captain Nazari and Signor Minoletti, who, by the way, were taking their first aerial voyage, were hurled out of the basket, and I never saw them again. I managed to cling to the wicker work, and for seven hours I was buffeted about by the waves, until finally a torpedo boat rescued me twenty-five miles from the point where we came down. Many persons had seen us drop, but every attempt to launch a small boat failed until at last the torpedo boat managed to reach me. "But terrible as was this experience, the trip which I shall remember the longest was the one when Signor Crispi and I crossed the Alps. Ascending from Milan, we found a favorable wind, and as we rose rapidly we were carried at first directly toward Mont Blanc. But when we were up 16,000 feet we struck a cross current and were being swept rapidly toward Mont Rosa. Fearful that we would be thrown against the mountain's summit and wrecked, I threw 140 pounds of ballast overboard at once, and we shot up until we reached a height of 18,930 feet. "At that height the temperature dropped to twenty-nine degrees below zero, and our pulses pounded at a rate of 122 beats a minute. The pressure on our ears was tremendous, and Signor Crispi had to resort to oxygen to keep up. "We had left Milan at eleven o'clock in the morning, and at twenty minutes after one we were poised over the very crest of the Alps. Descending on the other side we landed at Aix-les-Bains at five minutes of two o'clock, having made the crossing in five minutes less than four hours." Signor Usaelli explained to the Aero Club men the disadvantages under which aeronauts have to labor in Italy, with the Alps barring the way on the north and only the narrow peninsula to the south. From Milan he has made seven trips to the sea, landing close to the shore each time, sometimes within one hundred yards of the surf. He expects soon to try for a new world's record for height of ascension, but more than anything else he hopes that he of Age." SAFE CURE OR ALL FORMS OF KIDNEY DIS- LL BE SENT ABSOLUTELY ER OF THE HERALD Mrs. F.E. 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