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Times Watertown
26 Apr - 1907

AERIAL TELEGRAPHY. 

First Attempted By Amontons In the Fifteenth Century. 
One of the first systems of aerial telegraphy was attempted in the fifteenth century. The originator was Amontons, at that time considered one of the cleverest scientists of the world Yet you never hear the name nowadays in connection with that of Morse or Bell. However, Amontons developed a system of signal telegraphy so that a message could be sent from Paris to Rome in three hours. those who assisted in the transmission of the message along the line were unable to tell nature of the message. 

Posts were placed from Paris across the Alps at consecutive points, where men were stationed with telescopes. Different signals, representing combinations of letters, were run up at each post. The man at the other end, seeing the signal, placed a similar one before his post, and so the message was carried to its destination. 

The key to the signal was known only to those who sent the messages in Paris and to the recipients a thousand miles away. Amontons was not encouraged in his work by the puffy, gouty functionaries of the time and discontinued his efforts. - Philadelphia North American. 


World New York 
27 Ap - 1907

TRY TO FLY 700 MILES

Balloon Trip from St. Louis to Washington Is On for To-Day. 

Washington, April 26- the first long-distance balloon ascension test which Capt. Charles De F. Chandler, United States Signal Corps, and Mr. McCoy, of the Aero Club, New York City, are to conduct will be undertaken to-morrow at St. Louis. the objective point will be Washington D. C., and the trip is to be taken in order to demonstrate the efficiency of balloons as signal agencies in warfare. The aeronauts expect to make no descents, but to land in this vicinity Monday next. The balloon is standard size. 
The record for the longest distance in America was made in 1859 by Prof. Wise, who started from St. Louis and landed near the eastern end of Lake Ontario. 


Staats Zeitung New York
27 Apr 1907.

Ballon-Distanzfahrt.
 
Washington, 26. April. Morgen früh werden in St. Louis Kapt. Charles De F. Chandler vom Bundes-Signalkorps und Herr McCoy vom Aero Club in New York, den ersten Ballonaufstieg für eine probeweise Fahrt auf große Ent-[[cut off]]

[[cut off]] Das Fahrtziel ist Washington, D.C., und Zweck der Fahrt [[cut off]] es, die Wirksamkeit von Ballons als Mittel des Signaldienstes in Kriegzeiten nachzuweisen. Die beiden Ballonisten erwarten, am Montag in hiesiger Nähe zu [[cut off]]. Der Ballon, in welchem der Auf-[[cut off]] [[cut off]] gemacht wird, hat ein Fassungsver[[cut off]] [[cut off]] von 8000 Kubikfuß Gas. Den [[cut off]]ord für Distanzfahrt mittelst Ballon [[cut off]]f Prof. Wise im Jahre 1859, als er [[cut off]] St. Louis nach dem östlichen Ende [[cut off]] Ontario-Sees durch die Lüfte segelte. 



Times New York
27 Ap - 1907

MILITARY BALLOON TEST. 

Capt. Chandler and Mr. McCoy in Long-Distance Flight To-day.

Washington, April 26.——The first long-distance balloon ascension test which Capt. Charles de F. Chandler, United States Signal Corps, and J.E. McCoy of the Aero Club of America are to conduct will be undertaken to-morrow at St. Louis. The objective point will be Washington, D.C., and the trip is made in order to demonstrate the efficiency of balloons as signal agencies in warfare. the aeronauts expect to make no descents, but to land in this vicinity Monday next. 


Army & Navy Journal
27 Apr 1907. New York 

To determine the possibilities of the balloon in warfare, Capt. Charles de F. Chandler, of the U.S. Signal Corps, has been detailed to make a balloon ascension with J.C. McCoy, of the New York Aero Club, who made an ascension in Washington Feb. 23. The aeronaut plans to make the ascension from St. Louis as soon as wind and weather are favorable, and hopes to travel by air all the way to Washington, a distance of 1,200 miles. St. Louis has been chosen as the place of ascension in order that the flight may not be endangered by the proximity of any large body of water. Captain Chandler, who is making the trip for instruction, will also profit by a series of test ascensions, which are to be made by the Signal Corps from Omaha and Fort Leavenworth during the summer. Mr. McCoy will us the same balloon in which he made his flight from Washington, and which he constructed to show the possibilities of balloon in war. The bag has a capacity of 78,000 cubic feet. 


Herald Boston Mass. 
27 Ap - 1907

BALLOON TRIP FROM St. LOUIS TO CAPITAL 

Washington, D.C., April 26,1907. The first long distance balloon ascension test, which Capt Charles de F. Chandler, United States signal corps, and Mr. McCoy of the Aero Club, New York city, are to conduct, will be undertaken to-morrow at St. Louis.
 
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FIREMAN INJURED ON DUTY

Frank Rutherford Badly Cut Fighting Flames in Box Factory.
Frank Rutherford, a fireman on Truck No. 4, was painfully injured last evening, while fighting a fire which gutted the paper box factory of Eugene R. Plumby, 117 North Orianna Street. The fireman was badly cut and had to be taken to the Jefferson Hospital.

Transcription Notes:
Charles DeForest Chandler German sections transcript as best as possible with Fraktur alphabet.