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65 1907. June 4. Tuesday at Baddeck. Post Dispatch St Louis. 3 Apr 1907 Airship Has Sixteen Balloons. Count von Zeppelin's airship, which holds the distance and speed record of 68.35 miles in two hours 17 minutes, is 420 feet long, 38 feet in diameter and has a rigid alumnium frame containing hydrogen baloons. Two 35-horsepower gasoline motors drive four propellers. Journal Albany Ny. 3 Apr 1907 Dr. Alexander Graham Bell says we shall soon have aerial battleships. What a magnificent imagination! Avveneri a'Italia 3 Apr 1907. Bolspue [[?]] Notizie d'aereonautica Giunge notizia du Parigi che, se il tempo lo permetterà, oggi Santos Dumont correrà il gran premio dell'Avviamento di 50,000 franchi, sul suo pallone 14 bis. Altra notizia interessante l'aereonautica è l'inaugurazione dell'esposizione, già da noi preannunziata, dell'Aero-Club a Londra. I concorrenti furono numerosi e presentas rono aereoplani di svariatissimi sistemi e dimensioni. Il construttore dell'aereoplano, giudicato mi gliore otterrà il premio di 250 sterline. Sue. [[?]] New York. 4 Apr 1907 WELLMAN TALKS TO AERO CLUB Will Hang Its Banner on the North Pole Next Trip. The Aero Club of America gave a reception at its clubrooms, 12 East Forty-second street, last night in honor of Walter Wellman, who hopes to reach the North Pole this summer by means of an airship of the dirigible balloon variety. Mr. Wellman arrived yesterday on the Kaiser Wilhelm II. in order to be present when his daughter is married in Washington, and he will return to France a week from to-day. Major Henry B. Hersey of the United States Army and Dr. Fowler of Bluffton, Ind., who will accompany Mr. Wellman in his aerial flight toward the pole, will sail for Europe to-day on La Lorraine. Cortland Field Bishop, president of the Aero Club, presided last night and others present were Alan R. Hawley, Charles Jerome Edwards, S. D. Mott, J. C. McCoy and A. Post. Mr. Wellman told the Aero Club men that he expected to reach Splitzbergen about June 1, where his balloon station is located, and that he will start for the Pole as soon as the conditions are sufficiently favorable. Last night Mr. Wellman was the recipient of a very ornate Aero Club flag, which he promised to nail to the North Pole when he arrived there, and as he promised the same thing to the New York Motor Club about a year ago the Pole will surely present a holiday appearance, particularly if Mr. Wellman is entertained by many more clubs. He said last night that while he believed in mechanical flight, and that it would solve the question of aerial navigation, it had not been sufficiently developed as yet and so he would depend on a huge gas bag in his effort to reach the North Pole. Sue Post. New York 4 am Apr 1907. POLAR EXPLORERS SAIL. Two of Wellman's Associates Will Gather Supplies for Balloon Ven- Pilot Norfolk Va. 3 Apr - 1907. $1,000 CUP IS OFFERED FOR FLYING-MACHINE RA Gift Of Scientific American--To Be Contested For Annually--First Race At Exposition. To be competed for annually by American-built flying machines, the first contest to be held at the Jamestown Exposition September 14 next, a $1,000 cup has been offered by the Scientific American as a prize to encourage airship manufacturing in this country. The announcement of the prize and that it will be first contested for at the Exposition, was made yesterday by Superintendent Israel Ludlow, of the Jamestown Aeronautic Congress, and Augustus Post and Cortland Field Bishop, members of the Jamestown Aeronautic Committee. Aero Club In Charge. The cup will be contested for under the care of the Aero Club of America, and the three men named held a meeting yesterday to discuss the framing of the deed of gift and the conditions under which the cup is to be held. Mr. Ludlow announced yesterday that already three entries in the race for the cup are assured. These will be the machines of Alexander Graham Bell, Peter Cooper, Hewitt and Mr. Ludlow himself. They are all aeroplanes. All Fakes Ruled Out. One of the conditions of the contest is that the machines contesting for the cup must be heavier than air, must be self-propelled and without any gas attachments. The cup will not be finally awarded unless one of the competing machines travels at least 1,000 feet in the air. "No freaks, no fakes, and no flukes," is the motto. The Bell machine, to contest for the cup is constructed of its tetrahedral kites and will have a 30 horse-power gasoline engine. Mr. Hewitt's is an 80-foot aeroplane, about whose construction the owner has preserved great secrecy. Mr. Ludlow's machine is all ready with the exception of installing the machine. Press Philadelphia 4 Apr-1907 NEW TRIAL FOR AERODROME Prof. Langley's Flying Machine to Be Given Another Chance. Special Despatch to "The Press." Washington, April 3.-"The Buzzard," as the great aerodrome invented by the late Prof. S. P. Langley, of the Smithsonian Institution, is known, is soon to be given another trial by Charles M. Manley, who was associated with Langley in the experiments which ended in disaster in 1903. Mr. Manley invented the light-weight motor, which is expected to propel the aerodrome and work the great wings. He, like all other scientists who were associated with Prof. Langley, believes that the machine will fly, and that at the last experiment, when it fell into the Potomac River, it was not given a fair test. Sue [[?]] Journal New York 4 Apr 1907 BIG AIRSHIP SOLD FOR $80 Santos-Dumont's airship, which has lain neglected in the United States warehouse since the St. Louis Exposition, has been sold at auction to J. B. Green, of Brooklyn, at [[?]] $80. He refused to tell what he will do with it. The airship has a stormy history. The Brazilian expert brought it here in bond [[to?]] use in the St. Louis contest. He got [[into?]] a row over the conditions and one morning the airship was found with several holes in it. It was hinted that the [[illegible]] did it himself. Anyway, he left the country in a huff and wouldn't take the airship with him.
