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77 1907. June. 12. Wednesday at Baddeck Gazzetta del Popolo [[?]] 9 Apr 1907. Luvui [[?]] Nuovi esperimenti cogli areoplani a Parigi. PARIGI, 8 aprile (Per telefono)- Il'areoplano di La Grange ha fatto stamane ufficialmente degli esperimenti per la Coppa dell'aviazione. Percorse una cinquantina di metri all'altezza di quattro metri; poi essendo stato spinto dal vento al disopra degli spettatori, per evitare accidenti, venne fatto cadere. L'areoplano cadde, riportando leggiere avarie. Herald New York 9 Apr - 1907 NO BALLOON ASCENSION. PITTSFIELD, MASS., Monday.-A snowstorm to-day caused the abandonment of the balloon ascension planned to be made from here to-day by Alan R. Hawley and Leo Stevens. The men left for New York to-day after stating that the next ascension from Pittsfield probably would be made in about two weeks. Les Sports Paris 9 Apr - 1907 L'AERONAUTIQUE Dans les airs L'Aéro-Club No 2, monté par MM. Ernest Barbotte, Delebecque et Malsa, parti samedi soir, à 10 heures, du parc de l'Aéro Club, à Saint-Cloud, a atterri dimanche matin, à 9 heures, à Wesel-sur-le-Rhin (Westphalie), soit 450 kilométres, après avoir passé Château-Thierry, Alron, Aix-la-Chapelle, Dusseldorf, Esten [[?]] et tourné vers la Hollande. L'Albatros, de MM. Alfred Leblanc et E. Mix, qui a traversé Paris dimanche matin, est descendu à Montmirail (Marne) sous un orage. Le Faune, de MM. René Gasnier, Zens et Tissandier, a jeté l'ancre à Congy (Marne). Le ballon du Jardin d'Acclimatation, que montait M. Emile Carton, est descendu à Couburoy [[?]], près Esbly (Seine-et-Marne). A l'Académie Aéronautique Jeudi 11 avril, à 9 heures du soir, M. Pillet, vice-président de l'Académie Aéronautique, fera une conférence sur la <> la mairie du XI arrondissement, boulevard Voltaire. [[?]] Sue-Sine [[?]] - New York 9 Apr - 1907 BALLOON CONTESTS. St. Louis Amplifies International Race Programme. The Aero Club of St. Louis has decided to offer prizes aggregating $5,000 for contests between dirigible balloons and aeroplanes, the events to take place in conjunction with the international balloon race in October next. The big event is scheduled to occur on Oct. 19, and it is intended to have the other contests both before and after the main event. The competitions may be thrown open to the world, in which one of the latest developments along the ne of heav be shown Post Dispatch St. Louis 9 Apr 1907 AERO CLUB ASKED TO AID INVENTORS TO PERFECT "IDEAS" Personally and by Letter They Apply for Financial Assistance to Enable Them to Construct Machines on Plans That Each One Believes Solve Problem of Aerial Navigation. BALLOON and airship inventors from New York to San Francisco have been appealing to the St. Louis Aero Club for financial assistance in the perfection and patenting of inventions and "ideas" that, according to the originators, will make flights through the air a much simpler and more comfortable undertaking than a street car ride in this city. The plaint of each of these is like that of "the mute inglorious Miltons" in the famous poem. "Chill penury has repressed their noble rage" though it has not "frozen the genial current of their souls." Almost daily Secretary Kearney of the club gets some communication of this kind, usually by letter, though in some instances inventors have come in person with insistent invitations to visit their homes and see the wonderful airship models, which are ready to astonish mankind as soon as the necessary money is forthcoming. Among the big bunch of letters from inventors which fill one ample pigeon hole in Mr. Kearney's desk are many which bear the earmarks of genius' eccentricity. All are interesting in some particular. One writer begins: "I take the liberty of writing to you not knowing whether you will appreciate it or not, as I do not know whether or not you are worried to death by parties wanting assistance to develop their ideas, but I hope you will not be so disgusted as to be unwilling to read and consider this letter. He Has "the Goods." Another says with engaging frankness that he is neither "a crank, nor nutty." "I have the goods," he writes, "and all I want is someone to help me deliver them." He says he can refer the club to hundreds of prominent men and that while only two persons, both army officers of standing, have seen his plans both say he has "won out." Of his proposed airship, he says: It will be absolutely at the direction of the operator in most any weather, as to altitude or lateral control. The speed will be at least 100 miles an hour. The motive power costs nothing as it is made by the operator at will. The carrying capacity will be from 500 to 5000 pounds." He concludes with a bit of delicate flattery, which all but caught Secretary Kearney unawares. "It occurred to me," he says, "that you, being a progressive western man, might like to get in on this before I turn the whole thing over to a foreign corporation." The writer is an old newspaper man and he requests Mr. Kearney to "keep quiet" in any event, as he does not want "the boys to think he is clean nutty." He Has an Idea. Another letter reads: "Secretary Aerial Navigation Club: Dear Sir-I have an Idea that is entirely new and untried in aerial navigation and I am not sufficient mechanic and have not got the necessary appliances for the development of the Idea. I write to see if I can enlist some one to assist me in the employ of an expert and a mechanic to develop this Idea without losing the benefit of the invention. I think I could show any think man sufficient to convince him that I am on the right track. Please write me at once, as I am afraid if I wait someone else may stricke onto the same Idea." One citizen of St. Louis thinks the coming balloon races will be of great benefit to St. Louis and believes he can be of benefit to them. He writes: "I have been verry much interested in the contest which is to take place next October and am verry much pleased to hear that St. Louis is to have an entry in the race nothing could be better for St. Louis than that. Well this is not what I wanted to say to you in this letter but then one must say something to begin with and so I say 'I am interested' Yes I am interested and now the question is can I interest you in me if so please favor me by answering this letter and alowing me to have a private talk with you I think we can interest one another." This letter was addressed to L. D. Dozier, president of the St. Louis Aero Club. A man from an Eastern city writes an ingenious letter, winding it up thus: "The boon I beg of you is: Get me a rich man who is interested in inventions and willing to supply needed money. Half rights, equal with inventor for man who furnishes the money." The writer has not only invented a wonderful airship, but also a pump unlike any other pump ever conceived in which "there is millions" for himself and his backer, he writes. All He Needs Is Money. Still another inventor appeals to scientific interest and to the patriotic generosity of the man with money. He says: "I have studied long on a derageable baloon and at last think I am not far from having solved it, but am not able to prove my ideas are correct on account of the great expenses which are necessarily connected therewith. I am a man of famely and a mechanick and I cannot afford to experiment with flying machines, but if you or the club you represent are willing to hear me to explain my Ideas and plan you can order me at any time and at your convenience." One writer says that as soon as he heard the international balloon race was to start from St. Louis he moved from New York to this city "account aeronautical engineering proposition." A St. Louis mechanic with an "idea" says he thinks St. Louis men are just as competent to solve "the great problem" as Frenchmen or Germans. One Westernery describes his invention and incloses blueprints. He writes: "I have solved the two great problems, rigidity and air currents. By running the driving haft through an airshaft which runs lengthwise of the envelop I make the bag rigid, then by placing my propeller in the nose of the envelop you can readily see how this overcomes air currents." The Aero Club officials are willing to investigate anybody's claim to a good invention provided he brings substantial testimony to the effect that he really has a valuable idea. On that account each of the letters received receives a careful reading and is placed on file.
