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June 3. Monday at Baddeck. 60 New York. 31 Mar 1907. Louis Now Has An A [[image]] D Dozier esident [[image]] GIANT FRENCH AIRSHIP OPERATED BY HYPOLITE FRANCOIS, [[image]] Albert Bond Lambert Millionaire who will be Hawley's companion in the balloon "city" of St. Louis" [[map]] FOREST PARK Clayton Road Kings Highway Club house of Aero Club of St. Louis Kinshighway. Eluclid Ave. Gasometer 4000,000 Cubic Feet Chouteau Ave The dotted lines indicate 24 inch gas main and the small circles represent balloons Diagram of starting place for next international balloon race Francis D Hirschberg Treasurer Millionaires and Other ness Men Who Have gether to Guarantee the the International Bal o Be Held in October. senta- many s, and wealth veniently near a gas tank of the Laclede Gas Light Company. They found St. Louis so far removed from mountains and all large bodies of water that it affords an ideal field for fering an immense stretch which the airships can y little danger. They also he upper air currents of almost invariably from northeast, so that 1,500 to n be traversed before the ed, and without encoun- ountains. Furthermore, St. Louis proved the best purposes that they had Under the supervision of r. Vice President of the ight Company, the bal which A. R. Hawley and made a trial trip, was time. came apparent that St. e chosen for the balloon Smith. President of the s League, the organiza d conducted preliminary nd which had agreed to assume responsibility for making all arrangements for the balloon races, set about having an organization formed to take charge of the affair and raise the necessary funds. The Aero Club of St. Louis is the result. Alan R. Hawley, J. C. McCoy, and Lieut. Frank P. Lahm have been chosen as the three men to represent the United States. Mr. Hawley has agreed to pilot a balloon entered by the Aero Club of St. Louis, and Albert Bond Lambert, the millionaire Honorary Secretary of the St. Louis organization, will probably be Mr. Hawley's companion in the balloon. "I have arranged to meet Mr. Hawley in Paris and to make at least one ascension with him," said Mr. Lambert to the writer shortly before departing for Europe. "If my first experience in the air indicates to me that my constitution will stand more of them, I will accompany Mr. Hawley in the balloon City of St. Louis in the international contest." Lewis D. ("Bud") Dozier, of the club, is one of the hea Biscuit Trust, and a director than a dozen corporations, incl Mercantile Trust Company Merchants-Laclede National B is, of course, a millionaire, close friend of David R. Fran President of the club. David R. Francis, in addition Vice President of the club, has the order named, President of chants' Exchange, Mayor of the E which we eat, is in danger of being driven from the bills of fare in our restaurants. At a recent convention the New England Hotel Men's Association formally resolved to adopt English as the official language for descriptions of food. The Hotel Men's Association of Pennsylvania has likewise bestirred itself in the matter; and they are getting excited about it in London. Even in New York, which takes charge of most of the restaurant French that Paris cannot use, ts advocacy is being listened to with eat patience," according to The Hotel gister. o it looks as if trouble may be in re for the French chefs (cooks) and itres d'hotel (grand