The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-18
AERIAL SQUADRON TO
SALUTE PRESIDENT
NJ. Francois Announces That He
Will Surely Fly ON Roose
welt Day.
OTHER AERONAUTS MAY SAIL.
Arrangements for Reception of
the Nations Chief Include I'm
portant Events-Police Pro
lection to Be Ample.

One by one the events Of the programme
for Presidents Day at the Worlds Fair.
November 26. are being worked out. The
latest TO be made known is special air
world
For the benefit of the President. NJ.
Hippolyte Francois. the Inflated French
aeronaut, whose ship was wrecked on the
| REFERS of tho Worlds Fair fence last
Tuesday, will sail his good ship over the
bounding main of ether on the day of the
| Roosevelt visit.
Thls decision was arrived at yesterday
| after conference between Francois and
Percy Hudson. Superintendent of Aero
nautics at the Fair 1t was in his anxiety
| to add to the celebration of Vice Presi-
dent-elect Fairbanks's visit last Tuesday
| by flying his ship that Francois came to
| grief.
The balloon of the Francois vessel.
-hich was debated by the snagging of
the bag on a nail in the Aerodrome. was
| spread out In the Aerodrome yesterday,
preparatory to being repaired. The
wrecked frame will be mended as soon
as the damaged parts shall be received
from the planning mill.
NJ. Francois and Percy Hudson came to
| q satisfactory understanding yesterday
relative to the expenses of repairing the
| ship, and after the conference. announced
| that every effort would be made to have
| the damaged balloon and car repaired
inflated. coupled and generally shipshape
| in time for a flight on the day of the
Presidents visit.
To accomplish this all hands will be
| piped to the work, and the force of work.
men will be divided so that the labor OF
| repairing the balloon and car may pro-
/ ceed simultaneously. '
| 1t is probable that the announced inten-
ton of Francois to weigh anchor on the
Presidents day may induce the other
aeronauts now on the grounds to sail on
that day in. his honor. and a fiotilla of
| aerial craft on Presidents day is posssi-
bility. 1t is thought that the occasion may
| even induce Mr.. Benbow to venture a trial
| in the ether with his Montana Meteor.
That all the aerial sailors may be pro-
| vided with gas for their balloons orders
| have been given for the equipment of a
vitriol gas plant which will have a serv-
| ice capacity of from 900 to 1000 cubic feet
a day. This plant will serve the Berry
| airship of St Louis. which, it's owner an
| nounces, will fly tomorrow. wind. wealth
er and other conditions permitting.
| There will be no dearth of police protec-
| ton for the President during his stay
in the city. At conference between
| the Exposition officials and Chief Kiely
| Chief Desmond and Mayor Wells yester-
day morning, arrangements were completed
for detail Of police for the immediate
escort of the President and for the Fair
grounds on that day.
| Six detectives in citizens clothes will
| be detailed by Chief Desmond for the
Presidents immediate party and scattered
| through the crowd wherever the party
goes will be other plain-clothes men,
| In addition. an extra detail of uniformed
men for the Fair grounds will be sent out
there on that day. How many men will
be needed cannot be determined until some
idea has been obtained of the probable size
of the crowd at the Exposition on Presi-
| dents Day.
Chiefs Desmond and Kiely will go out
to the Worlds Fair grounds to-day and
with some Of the Exposition officials, will
go over a route on the Exposition site
| over which 1t Is proposed to take the
President on his tour Of inspection.