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1907. June 14 Friday at Baddeck 114 Press New York 28 ap-1907. BALLOON CAUSES RUNAWAY Stampedes Cattle in Pasture as Hawley Goes Up in St. Louis Special to The Press. ST.LOUIS, April 27.--Dashed in the small, swinging car of a balloon against a towering smokestack, Alan B. Hawley of the Aero Club of New York narrowly escaped death when making an ascension here to-day. The balloon first tore away many telegraph wires. Then the silken bag scraped against the chimney, but also close to the top that be-fore material damage could be done the bag swung clear. But the car struck the chim-ney with such force that its framework was badly bent and Hawley was half thrown through the ropes. Finally, when the bal-loon shot far above the chimney, Hawley waved his hand to the crowds below in signal of his safety. Hawley traveled sixty-seven miles, and landed near Carrolton, Ill., in an hour and forty-five minutes. The balloon frightened a herd of grazing cattle into a stampede, and caused a team to run away, with the result that both horses were badly injured and the wagon wrecked. Another balloon, the America, said to be the largest in the world, is all "in readiness" for an ascension by Captain Charles De F. Chandler of the United States Signal Corps. and J. C. Mc-Coy of the Aero Club of New York. The men seek seek to win the prize offered by Lieu-tenant Frank Lahm, U. S. A., for the long-est unbroken balloon trip, and they expect to travel to Washington without once touching ground. They were ready to start this afternoon, but decided upon a delay of thirty-six hours after the Weather Bureau had predicted westward winds for at least that length of time American New York 28 Apr-1907 LIUETENANT'S ODD TRIP IN A BALLOON Paris, April 27.--The American winner of the cross-channel balloons race, Lieuten-ant Frank P. Lahm, had a curious experi-ence in his latest ascent. In the balloon, Catherine Hamilton, he started from St. Cloud, near Paris, ex-pecting to be carried in the direction of Marseilles by the north wind. Next morn-ing he was surprised to find himself in the sight of Calais, and in danger of being carried out to sea by a strong south wind. During the night he had got into a current which took the balloon in the opposite di-rection from the desired one. Lieutenant Lahm, who was accompanied by Captain Feline, descended at Calais and returned to Paris. Lieutenant Lahm is at present attached to the Cavalry School at Saumur, and will eventually join the United States mil-itary balloon station at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. American New York 28 Apr-1907 SPECIAL DRESS FOR WOMAN BALLOONIST London Expects Fad to Become Popular This Summer Among Fair Sex. London, April 27.--Ballooning, which be-came a fashionable sport last year, will be still more popular this Summer. Women are expected to go in for ballooning in in-creasing numbers, following the example of Mrs. Harbord and Mrs. Nichoil, the pioneer women aeronauts. To meet the probable demand, a special ballooning dress has been designed. Here is a description of the first fashion in ballooning outfits for women, given by a West End ladies' tailor: "The most practical dress for a lady balloonist should really be made of gabar-dine, slimber, or for the coldest weather load, which is a particularly thick, yet light woven cloth, worn by the Alpine guides. "The fashionable color is a green with a slight ruddy brown tinge. The coat is worn short and lined with fleece or silk, pockets, two cross pockets, of American New York 28 Apr-1907 BALLOON FLIGHT TO WASHINGTON POSTPONED Weather For Next 36 Hours Unfavor-able for Record Dash. St. Louis, April 27.--Two balloon ascen-sions were planned to be made late to-night by J. C. McCoy, of the Aero Club of New York City, and Captain Charles De F. Chandler, United States Signal Corps in the America, and Alan B. Hawley and Leo Stevens, of New York, in the Orient. McCoy and Captain Chandler planned to start for Washington in an endeavor to win the Lahm Cup, but after a consultation with the Weather Bureau officials they de-cided to postpone the flight for thirty-sox hours, as the wind conditions are not favorable. Lewis New York 28 Apr-1907 GIANT BALLOON ASCENDS. Ten of the Best-Known Aeronauts of Paris Are in it. PARIS, April 27.--A giant aerostat named "The Eagle," with a capacity of 4,150 cubic meters, made a successful as-cent to-day from St. Cloud. There were in the car ten of the best-known aeronauts of Paris, including M. Santos-Dumont. The ascent was wit-nessed by a large and fashionable gath-ering. The balloon vanished to the south-west before a fair breeze. "The Eagle" is the property of M. Ba-han, Vice President of the Aero Club. Herald New York 28 Apr-1907 LIEUTENANT LAHM, AERONAUT, ILL Defender of International Challenge Balloon Cup Suffering from Typhoid Fever. SAUMUR, France. Saturday.--Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm, United States represen-tative at the French cavalry school here, who has won fame as a balloonist, is ill with typhoid fever, Lieutenant Lahm a Defender of the Challenge Balloon Cup. Lieutenant Lahm has been named as one of the three defenders of the international challenge balloon cup, which he won in the competition from Paris last autumn. The other defenders are Mr. J. C. McCoy and Mr. Alan R. Hawley. If Lieutenant Lahm should not be able to are from St. Louis next October in the international cup race his place will be taken by one of three substitutes yet to be named by the Aero Club of America. Herald New York 28 Apr-1907 BALLOONING FINDS WOMEN'S FAVOR Scarcely an Ascent Is Now Made Without at Least One Fair Passenger in the Car. [SPECIAL CABLE TO THE HERALD.] PARIS, Saturday.--With the return of fine weather it is evident that ballooning is become a more and more fashionable sport. A sure sign of this is the number of women making ascents. American women set the example a season or two back, and now scarcely one balloon goes up without one women passenger at least. In this the provinces vie with Paris. Bourdeaux already has a successful aero club and Roubaix is the latest addition to the list of provincial clubs. An in-augural ascent was made by a party with M. Edouard Boulanger as pilot, descending
