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Mass., Saturday.-Owing to a forty mile gale and a big rip in the Orient, discovered this afternoon, Alan R. Hawley and Leo Stevens were unable to make a balloon ascension to-day. They will go up on Monday. All day the aeronauts were at Aero Park waiting for the wind to subside, and they hoped to get away late this afternoon. Then a two foot rip was discovered in the balloon and it took Stevens two hours to sew it up. Herald, New York 7 April-1907 Airship Race in Olympic Games [[SPECIAL CABLE TO THE HERALD]] London, Saturday - An airship race is now a probable feature in the coming Olympiad in London, the council of the British Olympic Association, which is organizing the games, having decided to give it a place on the programme. "It is too early," sad the Rev. D. Courcy Laffan, "to go into details. The arrangements will all depend on the possibilities of airships that may be entered. The idea at present is to have a long distance race, starting the the stadium, which is to be erected at Shepherd's Bush." The successful inventor must be content with the honor of beating his rivals and the Olympian medal. The association does not propose to offer any special prizes, although it is possible these may be forthcoming from private sources. Consideration is being given at present to a proposal to have winter sports as an [[?]]part of the meeting. The sports would include skating, hockey and football, and be held either next January or February, five or six months before the summer meeting. More than a dozen foreign countries are expected to send representative competitors. Committees have already been formed or are in process of formation in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland and Bulgaria. Work has been started on the grounds at Shepherd's Bush, a beginning having been made with the racing track. The total accommodation for spectators, according to present plans, is 66,289, but it is hoped to enlarge the area so as to find room for at least a hundred thousand. [[image]] The Great Bag of Linen Drying After a Coat of Varnish [[image]] Leo Stevens [[image]] Sewing Women at Work on the Bag [[image]] Weaving the Basket, in Which the Aeronaut Will Make His Ascension BUILDING A BIG BALLON Leo Stevens at Work Upon His New Airship at Schuetzen Park.