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[[image]] L Consi Rich Ban Suc loo Three tive of the hear TTED LINES INDICATE 29 MAIN AND THE SMALL REPRESENT BALLOONS ARTING FRANCIS D HIRSCHBERG TREASURER 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 th of Newfoundland. thin easy reach h an and the purch rized fish appears arket every year January or in the uary. These shad da and shipped n fish migrate up ith the advance of e accessible. Most t week came from e migration had rea Bay. ngton T of about two Church, are members. So are the Presidents of practically all the banks and trust companies, including J. C. Van Blarcom, President of the National Bank of Commerce, (having $10,000,000 capital and $8,000,000 surplus,) the biggest banking institution west of the Mississippi River and one of the biggest in the United States. Presidents of great railroads are members; A. J. Davidson, President of the Frisco, for instance. The President of the principal clubs, including Judge Wilbur F. Boyle President of the St. Louis Country Club, the most fashionable organization in the city, are members. Judge Boyle by the way, has the biggest corporation practice in the State, and may be mentioned as representative of the legal profession. Dr. W.F. Fischel, who has the most fashionable medical practice in the city, is a member. So are Dr. H.H. Mudd and Dr. Herman Tuholske, the leading surgeons of the city, and Dr. H. N. Spencer, the leading aurist. Several ex-Congressmen belong to it. And last, but not least, the United States Army is represented in the person of Col. R.K. Evans, commanding Jefferson Barracks, who has made aeronautics a study. The membership of 300, the limit fixed by the constitution, was obtained in ten days. The waiting list is already large, and the membership list will probably be extended. Wanted His Portrait on Balloon. Because of a provision in the constitution of the Aero Club of St. Louis, balloons participating in the balloon meet cannot carry advertising. That such valuable display space should be wasted grieves scores of shrewd business men, but none, perhaps, more than a certain wealthy St. Louis manufacturer, who expected, it is said, to adorn one of the balloons with a colossal portrait of himself. He got in touch with Henry D. Sexton, President of the Southern Illinois National Bank of East St. Louis, and applied for one-half of the space on a balloon which he had heard Mr. Sexton and other East St. Louisans contemplated purchasing and entering in the St. Louis air doings. Mr. Sexton and the manufacturer agreed that the latter should have one side of the balloon in consideration of his defrayal of one-third of its cost. The manufacturer went home happy, and was about to sign a contract when he remembered that he had not ascertained whether he was to be allotted the lower or upper part of the balloon. He hastened to a telephone. Any one "cutting in" would have heard about these words: "I say, Sexton, which side of that balloon do I get? The contract fails to spedify.: "Why, the inside, of course." The contract remains unsigned.