The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-15
.KAISER'S BALLOON
RACE IS STARTED
Seventeen Ships Of the Air Make
s Start in Fifteen Mile
Breeze.

Berlin, Oct 15.-In breeze blowing
fifteen miles an hour, seventeen bal.
looms started yesterday in the interna-
tional race for the cup offered by En-
peror William. They were sent up from
within an enclosure at legal, six miles
northwest Of Berlin, where admirable
arrangements had been made to initiate
ten Of the balloons simultaneously in
an q hour and a half. The adjacent
fields were crowded with thousands of
automobiles. and carriages and fully
100000 persons assembled to see; the
race. The starters were officers Of the
army balloon corps. The balloons them
selves were cast off by non commission
ed officers. The great swaying, yellow
coverings could be seen for miles as one
approached legal and made show al
together unique for most of the OBJ
servers. So r.. .~st - :,
The first balloon to start was the He
lios, Vienna Aero club, DR.. Schleim,
aeronaut.H Then at fve-minute inter
walls there followed the Cognac. Berne
Aero club, Y. de Beauclair; the Helm
and the Radium, Belgium Aero club,
Adhemar de la Haul. Two French
and one Spanish balloon failed to ar
rive in time to take part in the race.
The other starters were the Ernst, the
smallest of the. assemblage, $50 cubic
meters, Berlin Air Navigation societay
DR.. Brockelmann; the City of Brussels,
Belgium Aero club, Leon de Bronckers;
the Sohnke, Munich Air Navigation
club, DR.. Emden; the Strasburg, Upper
Rhine Air Navigation association, Lieu
tenant Lohmueller; the Pommern, Ber-
lin Air Navigation society, Baron Won
Hewald; the Dusseldorf, the largest
competitor, 2:,4oo cubic meters, Lower
ecke; the Coblenz, Middle Rhine Balloon
club, Lieutenant Zimmerman; the Gran
denz, East German Balloon society,
Captain Won Krogh; the Franklin,
Frankish Airship club, Karl >Hochstet-
ter; the Bezold and the Shuering, Ber-
lin Air Navigation society, Captain Won
Kohler and Lieutenant Ribbentrop, re.
spectively, and the Brandenburg, Aero
nautic observatory at Lindenburg, DR..
Curt Wegener. r.!
There was only one threatened mis-
hap. The basket Of the Grandenz
caught among some telegraph wires
but it was soon freed.
The balloons were carried off by a
southwesterly wind and probably will
land in Silesia or beyond: The victory
WILL ~ W ouC ClCV ClC udnIllSI VI Udl
last.
Messages from Balloons.
Twelve of the balloons had not land
ed when this dispatch was filed at Ale
pm. today. But most Of them were
reported, by messages dropped int
towns which the balloons had passed
over and telegraphed to Berlin, to b.
In eastern Germany or Bohemia. d"
DR.. Wegener, who is managing thu
balloon Brandenburg, holds the German
record for the longest cruise in the air
namely, fifty-two hours. The Brand
enburg has not been reported.
The five balloons which have LANDED
are the Radium, Belgium Aero club, Az
hemar de la Hoult, near Luebben, fort,
miles in an air line from Tegel; th
Pommern, Berlin Air Navigation soci
ETY., Baron Won ,Hewald, near Klattau
Bohemia, $50 miles from the startin.
point; the Dusseldorf, the largest com
I petitor, 2,400 cubic meters, Lowe
Rhine Aairship club, Lieutenant Ben
ecke, near.Prague, lS5 miles; the Ernst
the smallest of the balloons, $50 cubi
meters, Berlin Air. Navigation society
near Brieg, 200 miles; and the Be
zold, Berlin Air Navigation society
Captain Won Kohler, near Plauen, Is
miles. + s= .s !: <. -, :