Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-13
BALLOON RACERS
ARE CONCRfCAT|AC
Start From st. Louis on 21st
of This Month.
JAMES G0RDEN BENNETT
Aeronauts Are Wary of the Great
Lakes.
NIGHT MANEUvERS IN BERLIN
An Attempt Is Being Made From
England to Break the Long
Distance Record.

loonists who will represent the Aero Club
OF France In the contest for the interna-
tlonaf aeronautic cup to he started from
ST Louis October 21 arrived here on the
steamer La Touraine today. With their
arrival the list of foreigners expc cted to
participate In the race Is completed. The
french representatives are Alfred Ie
Blanc and NJ. Mix. who will compose
one team, and Rene Cashier and Charles
Levee.
In speaking of the contest NJ. Mix said:
We have arranged to ship our bal
looms to st. Louis at once, and we shall
start for the western city Monday |
am IN this race for fun-pure sport, moth
ing else. All l hope for is 4 south wind
"hlch Will carry us far up in;o Canada
ana land us somewhere IN the wild ernes SIS,
1ar from civilization SO We will be
obhged to work way out. NJ lie
Blanc and ! are business men on our an
nual vacation, and We cannot get too
much sport out of it,
Six of the balloonists who will take part
N the st. Louis race left for that city to-
day. They were the four Americans, ]. c.
Mccoy and Capt. Char es de r. Chandler.
VINO Will manage the balloon America:
aian X. Haw.ey and August Post who
VIII san the st Loais. and two English
men. Griffith Brewer and his companion.
Lieut.. the Hon. C!aud Brahazon, of the
Lotus II.
Balloonists Fear Drowning.
All of the European aeronauts who are
To compete in the James Gordon Bennett
cup race are now in this country. Griffith
Brewer and Lieut.. Ciaud Brabazon. repre-
senting the Aero Club Of Great Britain.
came in on the Lusitania Friday Together
with Alan r. Hawsey and J. =. Mccoy
TWO of the cup defend -rs the E,ngIishmen
VIII start for st. Louis this afternoon. all
the balloons now Icing on the gr. uad The
German representative left New York
Friday. -
Fear Of dropping into the Great Lakes
! IS the chief concern of the aeri Il racers
as iSe present time and last night officers
or Inc aero Cub of America made the re.
quest tnat all newspapers throus hout the
lake region prirt a general motto, to
mariners to be Oh the lookout for the bal
looms.
For swenty-fo hours after the start of
the race, 'at $50 in the afternoon of Oc-
tober Fl. those sailing on the Lakes ara
r rquestfd TO Ike p u sharp watch IN all
or ctions. especially at night The pre-
vdiiinS wind at st. Louis at this time OF
the var Is from the southeast and that
WILL carry th- Balloons toward the lakes
Lak@s Michigan and Superior ar. es-
pec,aity feared, as they will probably be
more Directly in the track of tn. racers
than the lax furth r east. Should a bal
loon sal out over ona of these bodies of
water with sand ballast exhaust u and
without wind enough to carry L TO the
other side tn. aerolaut would be almost
certain of drowning, unless he was seen
and rescued 10y SOM craft.
one OF tn reasons Tor selecting this
time of the year for the race is that the
lax just now swarm with comm .rce,
toward the c.osa of navigation. and tbs,
together with a full moon, renders the
water less perilous than at any other
season. 1t is not * ~ that any of the
Gaioons will remain N the air longer
tnan forty hours. and I is expected. II
favored with good wind. that they will
all be down within twentyfour hours.
James Gordon Bennett Arrived.
Among passengers from Europe arriving
here today were: James Gordon Bennett,
Clarence ii. M2ckay and the Very Rev.
a. Mackay-Smith. Bishop Coadjutor OF
Pennsylvania and Ada Rehan, the actr, SIS.
Unusual Experiment in Berlin.
BERLIN, October 12.-Some military
balloonists last night carried out an un-
usual experiment. At about midnight
they aScended from a shed at Tegel, six
miles northwest of Berlin, sailed over this
city and maneuvered over the roofs for
nearly an hour, invisible to the citizens
Toward the end of the journey, however,
a heavy night dew caused the airShip to
descend almost to the ground, In the GEN.
ter of THIS city. Pedestrians saw great
Immediately over the electric lights. and
then shower OF water ballast caused
the crowd which had assembled to dis
pers quickly The balloon then disap-
peared in the darkness and returned 10
Tegel without any further mishap.