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[[cut off]] Farmers hurried to the spot and assisted the aeronaut to pack up the deflated balloon, which was later hauled to Carrollton, where Hawley will spend the night. This was Hawley's seventh ascension. He expects to make another Tuesday night and two more later in the east, as he is required to have made ten ascensions to qualify to act as pilot of the St. Louis entry in the international tournoment here in October. Mr Hawley, accompanied by J. T. McCoy and Leo Stevens, of New York, and Captain Chandler, United States signal corps, arrived last night. It was the intention of the aeronaut, McCoy and Captain Chandler to ascend this evening in the big balloon America for a trip to Washington, but it was postponed owing to unfavorable air currents.

Pioneer Press 
St Paul 
28 apr 1907
AIRSHIP AMID HERD
Cattle are Stampeded by Great Descending Gas Bag.
FARM TEAM RUNS AWAY
Illinois Rural Life Made Exciting by Aeronaut Hawley's Advent.
St Louis, April 27. - Aeronaut Allen R Hawley of New York city made an ascension here this afternoon in the balloon Orient and was carried sixty-seven mile before coming to earth. He landed i safety seven miles east of Carrollton, Ill. after being up for one hour and fifty-five minutes.
The balloon came down in the midst of a herd of cattle in a meadow on the farm of Robert Hardcastle. Just before the basket touched the ground it missed a barbed wire fence, barely clearing the barbs, and sank down among the cattle, stampeding the herd. A team of horses being worked in a field adjoining took fright and ran away. Farmers hurried to the spot and assisted the aeronaut to pack up the deflated balloon, which later was hauled to Carrollton, where Mr. Hawley will spend the night. He will return to St. Louis tomorrow. 
This was Hawley's seventh ascension. He expects to make another ascension Tuesday night and two more later on, in the East, as he is required to have made ten ascensions in order to qualify him to act as pilot of the St. Louis entry in the international balloon tournament here in October. 
Mr Hawley, accompanied by Aeronauts J. C. McCoy and Leo Stevens of New York, and Capt. Charles De F. Chandler, United States signal corps, arrived last night.
Flight Is Postponed.
It was the intention of Aeronaut McCoy and Capt. Chandler to ascend this evening in the big balloon America and undertake a trip to Washington, D. C., in an endeavor to win the Lahm cup offered for the longest distance balloon flight.
Hawley and Stevens intended to ascend at midnight in the Orient, a smaller balloon, to test air currents in this vicinity in the interest of the Aero club balloon contest in October.
During the forenoon Aeronaut McCoy was advised by the government weather bureau that the air currents were westward at present and he therefore decided to postpone his proposed flight for thirty-six hours in expectation of a change of air current to the East.
He telephoned from Carrollton tonight, saying he had experienced a very satisfactory trip. He said that in ascending his balloon had narrowly missed entangling with some telegraph wires, which alarmed him, but beyond that the trip was made without any untoward incidents.
As a preliminary step towards the creation of a large experimental station for teaching the operation of army balloons, the war department has placed a contract for he construction of a hydrogen generating plant at Fort Omaha, Neb. This will be one of the largest hydrogen plants in the world, capable of producing five thousand cubic feet of gas per hour, and will be built by a Cleveland concern which has been awarded the contract at a cost $21,150

chosen by the people to study questions and to act only after discussion and deliberation, and that the will of the people now ultimately prevails.

Great Senate Fight.
[S]enator Linehan will probaby have[[the]] chance this week to prove the effec[tiv]eness of Rule 10, which prohibits any [me]mber of the Legislature from voting [-] any measure which directly or in[di]rectly concerns his private interests.
During the discussion of the bill to provide for the joint use of street railway tracks by different companies, he challenged the right of Senators Shaw and Cox to vote on the measure, saying that the former was president of the [-]ston & Woster Street Railway Com[pa]ny and the latter an attorney for the [co]mpany. This Mr. Cox stoutly denied, [w]hile Senator Shaw remained silent.
Senator Linehan declared that if these [t]wo senators should again vote on the [m]easure he would call on the Presi[d]ent to enforce rule 102.

College Taxation Contest.
  There will be even a warmer fight over the college taxation bill in the House on Tuesday, it is predicted, than there was in the Senate last week.  The assertion was made during the week that if the bill passed the House it had very little chance of being signed by the Governor.
  Senator Feiker believes that the House will see the justice of his appeal.  He has fought for the legislation two years, and thinks the attitude of the Senate is a good indication that the measure has a fine chance of passage.
  Though Senator Feiker thinks the [[Wesley]] College amendment will have practically no effect on the amendment, [[more]] amendments of a similar kind, it is believed, would destroy the effectiveness of the bill.

Important Railway Issue.
  No opposition developed in the Senate Thursday to Senator Jenney's amendment to the bill relative to the recovery of damages on locations of electric railways, which gives the abutters the right to recover damages.  The street railway men are expected to put up a hard fight when the bill comes up for third reading, on the contention that it subjects interurban lines to regulations [[cut off]] act against further


Leo Sports Paris 
26 Apr 1907
Le plus grand Ballon de France
Un match dans la nuit. - "L'Aigle" et son satellite. - Le temps se gâte.
Au fur et à mesure qu'approche l'heure du départ du ballon géant L'aigle, l'opinion publique se passionne au match, unique dans les annales de l'aerostation, qui va réunir le plus grand ballon d France et aussi l'un des plus petits.
La comparaison des observations qui seront faites à bord de L'Aigle, de Jacques Balson et du Micromégas, de François Peyrey, sera vraisemblablement fructueuse en indications sur les avantages et les inconvénients de l'un et de l'autre ballon. Elle indiquera sans doute le cube moyen des aérostats à construire pour donner le meilleur rendement du gaz d'éclairage.
La statistique de 1905 indiquait un ballon moyen de 957 métres, pour deux voyageurs, faisant 117 kilométres en 4 heures 20 minutes.
La statistique de 1906, indiquait un ballon moyen de 1,021 métres, pour deux voyageurs, faisant 111 kilométres en 4 heures 23 minutes.
Il semble donc que le vrai ballon de sport doive voisiner plutôt mille métres cubes, ou plus exactement être le "945 m.c.", maximum admis en course dans la deuxiéme catégorie. Si le micromégas, de 400 métres, est trop petit pratiquement, il est suffisant pour un aéronaute seul en nacelle, et L'Aigle, de 4,150 métres est quatre fois trop volumineux, théoriquement s'entend, puisque ses dix voyageurs n'ont relativement pas plus de lest. Attendons doc les résultats de ce match pour savoir si la statistique a raison.
L'Aigle, partant quelques instants avant son satellite, sémera-t-il le petit Micromégas, ou bien celui-ci collera-t-il ? Cela dépend de la direction du vent auxdiverses altitudes, mais il y a tout lieu de croire que les deux voyages différeront dans cette lutte inégale et les observations n'en seront que plus nombréuses.
Malheureusement, le barométre baisse le temps se gâte, il est à craindre que ces beaux projets s'envolent et que le sensationnel départ du plus grand ballon de France soit encore une fois ajour né.
Quoi qu'il en soit, l'inspection du matériel a été faite hier à Puteauz, chez M [[?]] Mallet, par M. F. Peyrey, chef de la [[?]] petite expédition. Une armée d'hommes a visité soigneusement l'étoffe et le filet. M. Paul Tissandier a demandé un essai [[cut off]] de la soupape et des essais de la déchirure; ils ont tous donné les meilleurs résultats.
L'aménagement de la grande nacelle de 2 m. 80 de long sur 1 m. 70 de large a aussi préoccupé les aéronautes. Quoi [[cut off]] qu'il ait été décidé, en principe, que les dix illustres voyageurs n'emporteraient que le minimum de bagages, les soutes se remplissent déjà d'instruments enregistreurs, d'appareils, de vivres, pour le cas où l'ascension durerait de douze à vingt heures. Il n'y aura pas moins de huit ou dix appareils photographiques, le journal de bord sera, dit-on, rédigé à la machine à écrire, et l'on parle même d'un phonographe !
On le voit, c'est le voyage moderne par excellence qui se prépare, celui que rêvait Nadar à la veille de l'inoubliable ascension du Géant.
G. B.

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