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power it develops. He thus closely rivals t remarkable steam motor devised by Lang ten or twelve years ago. Lightness in propelling machinery is more essential to the success an aeroplane, perhaps, than to that of an a ship of the gasbag type--the kind preferred the young Cleveland aeronaut-but his achievement is notable, nevertheless. World [[?]] 28 Ah 1907 HAWLEY'S BALLOON SCARES CATTLE. New Yorker Travels 67 Miles in 115 Minutes - Long-Distance Trip Has Been Postponed. ST. LOUIS, April 27. - Alan B. Hawley, of New York, made an ascension in the balloon Orient at 2:15 P.M. today, saying he did not expect to be up more than an hour and was going to make a trip to test the air currents. The balloon rose to a great height and then headed north. At 4:10 P. M. Mr. Hawley descended safely among a lot of scared cattle on the farm of Robert Hardcastle, seven miles east of Carrolton, Ill. The landing point is sixty-seven miles from St. Louis, so that the balloon travelled about thirty-five miles an hour. After the America and Orient had been inflated to-day the proposed trip of the America to Washington was postponed because the weather conditions were not favorable. J. C. McCoy, of the Aero Club of New York City, and Capt. C. De F. Chandler, U. S. Signal Corps, had intended to make the trip. McCoy says they will start as soon as weather conditions are favorable. The America is a larger balloon than the Orient and under favorable conditions is expected to sail seventy-five miles an hour. With its car and equipment the America weights 2,200 pounds. Its gas bag is 53 feet in diameter and has a displacement of 78,000 cubic feet. Mr. Hawley and Leo Stevens expect to make an ascension at midnight to test the air conditions in this vicinity in the interest of the balloon tournament to be held here in October by the Aero Club of America. M'q Telegraph New York 28 Ah 1907 ONLY ONE BALLOON to-day for the Lahm Balloon Cup, only the latter got away, with Alan B. Hawley and Leo Stevens, of New York, in the basket. J. C. McCoy, of the Aero Club of New York, and Captain Charles De F. Chandler, United States Signal Corps, will try to make an ascension in the America to-morrow night or Monday. Hawley and Stevens got away prosperously and landed at 4 o'clock this afternoon at Meadows, Ill., sixty miles from St. Louis and six miles east of Carrollton. They dropped in a herd of cattle, unhurt. Hawley telephoned to St. Louis that the voyage was pleasant, but that he would not be able to return to St. Louis to-night, because he was several miles from a railroad. Some People Have Been Heard to Say They Would Not see New York This Way-Not for a Thousand DoMars a Trip. resentative at the French Calvary School here, who has won fame as a balloonist, is ill with typhoid fever. American New York 28 Ap 1907. GIANT BALLOON GOES SAILING OUT OF PARIS Paris, April 27 - A giant aerostat named "The Eagle," with a capacity of 4,150 cubic meters, made a successful ascent today from St. Cloud. There were in the car ten of the best aeronauts of Paris, including M. Santos Dumont. The ascent was witnessed by a large and fashionable gathering. The balloon vanished to the southwest before a fair breeze. World New York 28 Ap - 1997 "Seeing New York" - One Way to Do It. Probably the first thought that will occur to the average reader of this page when he looks at the accompanying photograph is this: "That can't be a real photograph. There are no 'seeing New York airships' yet." As a matter of fact, though, the photograph is reproduced here exactly as t was taken. It shows four venturesome New Yorkers whirling around through space hundreds of feet above the Speedway, the Harlem River and the Ferris wheel on Fort George. A splendid view of the upper section of the city is to be obtained from the car. You can see all over Harlem and the Bronx and a considerable portion of Westchester County, Manhattan Island and New Jersey. Just how high the car goes can be judged from the dwarfed appearance of the Ferris wheel, the flag staff and the Harlem River. Every visitor to Coney Island knows how the airship carousels work. This is one of them, the only difference being that cars are substituted for airships and the scene is Fort George instead of Coney Island. People have been heard to declare that they would not care to go New York sightseeing in this manner - not for a thousand dollars. Others have been heard to speculate on what would probably happen in case the ropes broke, releasing the whirling car and dropping it gracefully a mile away. The car, as the photograph shows, is well supplied with cables, and there is really no more danger in seeing New York in this style than there is in the ordinary "rubberneck." PHOTO
