New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-10-02
BIC AERIAL CARNIVAL
Many Experts to Compete In the
International Cup Race.
CONTEST HELD AT ST. LOUIS.

Double Row of Open Wire Fences Will
Prevent interference With Starting
of Balloons-Youth Of Fourteen From
Ohio Will Compete.
Arrangements for the aerial carnival
ut st. Louis, the principal feature of
which will be the contest for the In
ternational cup during the week be-
ginning Monday, Oct. 81, are nearly
complete, and the men in charge pre-
dict that the event will be the greatest
and most successful in the history of
ton, says a st. Louis special dispatch
to the New York Herald Experts in
aerial navigation from many parts of
the world are entered in the interna-
tional race for the cup, and there will
be numerous special attractions The
board of directors Of the Aero Club of
America. the organization which rep
resents the International federation in
the United States, has made extensive
plans for the care of the visitors, and
the reception committee includes repre-
sentative men of the United States.
The roster in part is CORTLAND Field
Bishop, chairman; Patrick Y. Alexan-
der, Colonel John Jacob Astor, DR.. AL
exander Graham Bell, o. II. P. Bel
mont, John E. Borne, James L. Breese,
Alfred N. Chandler Captain G. De +.
Chandler, Octave Canute, Charles G.
Gates, Charles J. Glidden, Peter Coop
err Hewitt and Frank S. Lahm.
Many members of the Aero Club of
America will attend A big delegation
already has made preparations to
leave New York on Thursday, Oct. II,
and has engaged headquarters for the
club at the Hotel Jefferson. Locally
the Aero club Of st. Louis and the
Business Mems league are pushing
preparations for the international race
and the other aerial events. PERMITS
sion has been obtained to inclose the
grounds from which the balloons will
be started at Forest park. the site Of
the worlds fair Of 1904.
There will be @ double row of fences,
one ten feet inside the other. Both
will be of open wire, SO as not to OBJ
struct the view Of the public. The ten
foot space between the two rows will
be thoroughly policed. The two rows
were deemed advisable SO that if by
chance the crowd should break through
the outer fence it could be checked be-
fore getting by the inner one.
The people of St. Louis have had to
guarantee to the contestants that the
Enclosures shall be kept clear and that
there shall be no interference with
the starting Of the balloons. A bal
loon must have plenty Of space to rise,
and it IS impossible to keep the crowds
away without erecting fences. Not
only would crowd around the bal
loon make an ascension impossible,
| but it would endanger lives, as many
persons are apt to smoke and even
light matches near the immense bag
Of gas. The gaslight company also
has been granted permits for the lay
ing Of necessary gas mains. The com
pany is experimenting, and it expects
to supply a quality Of coal gas with
remarkable ascensonal power.
The Business Mems league has OBJ
tanned permit and let contract for
an immense grand stand. L. D. Do
zier, president Of the Aero club Of ST.
Louis, who spent several days in New
York recently in conference with mem
bers of the Aero Club Of America, has
returned. He will give his immediate
| attention to pushing all necessary
preparations The aerial meeting Is
expected to last q week. There are
really five separate events-the inter
national balloon race, the airship and
dirigible balloon contest, gasless flying
aeronauts to win the lap by covering
a greater distance than 402 miles in
a balloon.
s. p. Ferguson Is coming on to make
| experiments with small balloons for
| Professor A. Lawrence Rotch, director
Of the Blue Hill Meteorological OBJ
servatory and professor Of meteorology
| at E1aTVaFQ university. NlI. r erSuSOu
conducted the experiments made at
st. Louis during the worlds fair IN
der the direction Of Professor Rotch.
The balloons are sent up with self
registering instruments in them to as
certain conditions that would be Of
interest and service to those who are
| to take part IN the aerial contests.
/ One of the entrants in the dirigible
balloon contests is Cromwell Dixon,
fourteen years old. of Columbus. O..
Young Dixon guides his airship with
/ a bicycle arrangement. and he calls it
/ a sky bicycle. He has made several
difficult flights. Carl Meckle Of Ell
berfeld, Germany. will be one of the
three German contestants in the inter-
national race, taking the place Of Bar
on Won Hewald Meckle won the big
Dusseldorf balloon race on June s.
Oscar Erbstloch. another German. won
the race at Brussels a few days ago