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sail against any American expert was sold at auction yesterday at the sale of unclaimed goods in the seizure rooms of the Custom House. It was bought by a Brooklyn man, whether to avoid the bridge crush or not was not stated. After the bidding for the airship had run up to $80, the auctioneer announced that B.J. Green, of Brooklyn, had drawn the prize. 
Santos-Dumont brought the airship, which is of the familiar dirigible balloon type, to race, he said, against American inventors at the St. Louis Exposition. Roy Knabenshue, Captain Thomas Baldwin and Leo Stevens and a few others fell over themselves accepting the Brazilian's challenges. A few days later big holes were found cut in the gas bag, and Santos-Dumont, who said that he was positive that he did not know who cut them, sailed away. 
Consul, the chimpanzee that acquired worldwide fame some years ago through attending a dinner, was also sold. The auctioneer described him as the most highly accomplished and educated animal in the world and famous for his table manners. The only trouble with Consul at the sale yesterday was that he was dead and stuffed, and even the auctioneer's plea that "he was just as beautiful as ever" failed to arouse 
great extent, and Consul went
Swan's Club for $83. 


Herald New York
4 April 

Mr. Santos-Dumont's air
for exhibition at the St. Lou 
was one of the articles offer 
the auctioneer at the custom 
Appraiser's Stores yesterday 
$80. B.J. Green, of No. 40 R 
Brooklyn, was the purchaser
would navigate the air with

Herald New 
4 Apr - 1907. 
I'LL FLY TO THE POLE, SAYS WELLMAN
Tells Aero Club He Is Sure His New Airship Will Solve Arctic Mystery. 
REPLIES TO THE DOUBTERS
Insists He Has Plan to Overcome Weight of Snow on Balloon-Artificial Serpent for Ballast. 
Walter Wellman described to members of the Aero Club last night how he expects to reach the Pole next summer from his base in Spitzbergen in the gigantic dirigible balloon built for him in Paris last year.

He arrived from Europe on the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II. yesterday morning, and after attending the marriage of his daughter, in Washington, he will sail next week to complete his preparations for the aerial voyage. He expects to reach Spitzbergen, where three men were left last summer in charge of the skeleton framework of a balloon shed, early in June and at a favorable opportunity in July or August he plans to launch his airship and set sail for the Pole.

But he said last night that he and Major Hershey had no intention of following the example of Andre and "deliberately commit suicide." Andre knew that the chances were vastly against his success, Mr. Wellman said, but because his sincerity had been questioned he feared more to return home without having made the attempt than he feared the dangers of the attempt itself.

"We may not succeed the first time," said Mr. Wellman, "but we shall not lose heart, and on the second or third attempt, if they are necessary, we have the utmost confidence that we shall succeed."

Describing the construction of his airship, which is 183 feet long and has suspended from it a steel car 115 feet in length, Mr. Wellman said all possible obstacles to success had been taken into consideration. As to the danger from the condensation of moisture and the accumulation of a great weight of snow on the surface of the balloon, which has been suggested by Peary and other Arctic explorers, as well as by aeronauts, Mr. Wellman said it does not exist.

His balloon has three thicknesses of cotton coated with an emulsion of pure rubber, which, he believes, would be impervious to moisture and would shed rain and snow as perfectly as a tin roof. In addition, he expects that the injection of air heated by the gasoline engines into an interior balloon will by radiation, add two degrees at least to the temperature of the surrounding hydrogen, which would result in preventing the formation of frost on the surface of the balloon.

Instead of carrying a large quantity of sand ballast, he has designed a leather snake, covered with steel scales, and filled with an extra supply of provisions, which will be dragged behind the airship, swimming over the surface of the water or winding its way across the ice hummocks. It will be suspended at the end of a steel cable, and by raising or lowering the cable and the serpeant Mr. Wellman expects to be able to control the rise and fall of the airship.

From Spitzbergen to the Pole it is 715 miles, which the explorer believe can be covered in 150 hours under most favorable conditions, but he will sail prepared or a voyage lasting several months.


EAGLE H
NDUCTED BY AUNT 
Historical Sketches
An Aero-Catama
Fly from Ma
at Weybridge.


Herald New York
4-Apr-1907.
Falls Again with Bird of Prey
M. Santos-Dumont Flies Thirty Yards with Old Machine When Gust of Wind Upsets and Damages It, but Inventor Escapes Injury.
PARIS, Thursday.-M. Santos-Dumont was not willing to risk his new aeroplane in the heavy wind blowing to-day, so he made his experiment with his old machine. He flew a distance of thirty yards, when the machine was upset by a strong gust of wind and came violently to the ground. M. Santos-Dumont was not injured, but the machine was seriously damaged. The trial was made a Saint Cyr. 


Herald New York
5-Apr-1907.

In the Realm of Aeronautics.

Among the airship competitors this year will be Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. Now that Edison has decided to drop regular work, he may join in the fascinating experiments in traveling by the aerial line.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.

The most attractive field for the exercise of high inventive talent is offered by aeronautics. Busy brains in every part of the world are engaged upon preparations for the great international carnival at St. Louis next October, and it would not be surprising if our esteemed contemporary's suggestion were adopted by Mr. Edison.