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92 1907 June 13 Thursday at Baddeck Courier Buffalo NY 14 Ap 1907 ARTILLERY PRACTICES ON CAPTIVE BALLOONS (Exclusive Cable to The Courier.) Berlin, April 13.- Artillery practice at balloons took place at Neufahrwasser today, in the presence of Gen. Sixt von Arnim. representing the Prussian Minister of War. Three balloons, one of them a captive were sent up. The first was brought down by three shrapnel shots, while the second sailed off unscathed. The captive balloon was brought to earth by a brilliant shot. The experiments took place in Danzig Bay. Record Philadelphia 15 Ap 1907 Chemistry for Aeronauts. British aeronauts will be interested to learn of a useful development of invention as applied to practical ballooning which can hardly fail to give the science a strong practical lift forward. A German inventor, Captain von Krogh, who acted as pilot of the Parseval balloon, has devised a means for dispensing with ballast in bulk. Instead of sand, certain chemicals of a non-bulky nature are used. These have the property of absorbing moisture from the atmosphere and thus of increasing their weight. The invention was tried with complete success in a voyage from Tegel to Koeslin, a distance of 186 miles, which was covered in about six hours. Journal Actaula 15-Ap-1907 MAN AND DAUGHTER HURT BY BALLOON Big Aerial Vesssel Falls on Two People As They Stood Watching Ascension. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Birmingham, Ala., April 15,- H.D. Keith, a prominent citizen of Bessemer, and his little daughter were injured in a most peculiar manner in an accident near their home. The two were out watching a balloon ascension by a carnival company showing there. When the balloon reached its highest point the aeronaut cast off from it and started down in a parachute. The two were intently watching the parachute, and never noticed the descending bulk of the balloon, which struck them, overturning their buggy and involving the horse, as well as the two occupants of the vehicle, in a mass of smoking cloth and network. Mr. Keith's injuries, as a result of the struggles of the frantic horse, were at first pronounced serious, but physicians now state that he will be out in a few days. American New York 16 Ap- 1907 "U.S. Will Fly in The Air In 1917." So Says A. M. Herring, Inventor, in Address to New York Aero Club. "The United States of America will be all flying in the air ten years from now," were the cheering words of A. M. Herring, experimenter to the New York Aero Club, at its meeting last night. Mr. Herring says he's the more confident of this because he has just perfected the invention of a new metal lighter than steel and twice as strong. He's making this metal now out of magnesia, aluminum alloy, nickel and some either things which you can't expect him to tell about because there are fortunes in it. "Anyway, we'll be soaring in aeroplanes anywhere we want to go by that time," he continued. "My metal is going to make it possible." The new aeroplane which Mr. Herring is now devising will sail a thousand miles, according to Mr. Herring, and will be "just as safe as a cyclone cellar." The experimenter was very heartily cheered by Dr. Thomas Leo Stevens other Aero Club members Port St Press Rochester 16 Ap 1907 Prof. Bell Hopes to Fly Summer with His Halifax, N. S., April 16.- "Professor Alexander Graham Bell will not be a competitor in the race for flying machines for the Gordon Bennett cup, which is to take place in Paris early this Summer," says W. F. Bedwin, superintendent of Professor Bell's kite laboratories at Baddeck. During the winter the full force of experts have been employed putting together a large number of tetrahedrons, which in a short time will be placed in one piece, to form the body of the airship. In future all trials will be conducted over water, and specially prepared oil surface will be used for all cloth that may be necessary to use in the work. He says there is no deviation from the experiments of former years. The general outcome of the machine will remain the same. Practically the propelling power will be specially cons engine is o weight far b motor of the pected to sen rate of six No outside used in the tr summer. depend entire on the plane the motor. M to be placed motor is atta After the t surface, the to the airship at flying with look after the ship. Professor rive in Baddeck Press Grand Rapids Mich 16 Ap 1907 Airship for Fair Knabenshue Will Bring the Real Thing Here in September. Secretary Conger of the West Michigan State Fair association has closed the first contract for the special feature of this year's exposition, securing the big feature of the week in A. Roy Knabenshue and his airship. The week of the exposition is Sept, 9-13, inclusive, and Mr. Knabenshue is to make an ascension each day, weather conditions permitting. Not only this, but he will bring with him a captive balloon, patrons being permitted to take a ride in the clouds on payment of a fee, and also two racing balloons, one of which will be operated by himself and the other by his assistant. Mr. Conger said in view of the fiascos attending previous airship events in this city and Detroit he and the association were rather cautions regarding Mr. Knabenshue. He entered into correspondence with secretaries of fairs in different parts of the country who had in previous years had Mr. Kuabenshue's services and all spoke in high terms of the merits of the attraction. Under the contract Mr. Knabenshue is to bring his latest type of ship, which he is now building at his home in Toledo, and which, ninety-two feet in length, is nearly twice as long as that previously used by him. He readily signed the agreement under which he makes ascension or receives no pay. Last year he appeared at some of the biggest state fairs in the country and Mr. Conger says he lost but give days out of forty-three and these owing to unfavorable weather conditions. Mr. Conger believes this attraction will be highly appreciated by the patrons of the west Michigan fair, as it was at Brockton, Mass., and other places last [[year?]] Record Philadelphia 17 Apr 1907 Still Another Flying Machine Trials Made in France With Small Model Proved Quite Successful HEAVIER THAN THE AIR French Inventor Busy on a Larger One He Intends to Enter in Competition Another new flying machine known as the "Cornuce helicopter" is in the course of construction in France, where a series of successful trials have already been made with a small model. In this machine, which is of the "heavier-than-air" type, the ascentional power is provided by screws, but light canvas planes are used to assist in the flight. In the trials with the model apparatus the machine, which carries a motor rose
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