Evening star., 1907-08-31
PRETTY AMERICAN MATRON
LATEST STARTED AERONAJ1s
Mrs. Lambert Tells of Trips
Through Storm Clouds,
the Srortiest Kind of
Balloon Stunt.
Shoot the chutes.' begin again"
"ISn'f Il dancarnl1S D., acLod

Shoot the chutes,' begin again"
Isn't it dangerous?" / asked.
"On a windy storm day there NAV be
danger from electricity" spoke up Mr. Al
! bert Lambert. AT the first flash of 1t we
make arrangements for ending the trip: but
long before you see a flash, you feel it
| balloon, you know"
"1f lightning struck you, what would
happen?"
The balloon would burn, Most people
think it would explode. That is an error
The rising gas would burn like a gas-iet"
Yet 1t seems that ladies are sci lnm
frightened, even on their first balloon
! trip"
II knew at once I would want to GO
ballooning always" laughed Mrs Lambert
Il fear only one thing-dragging when we
come to earth at the end OF the trip. In
sporting weather, the wind often drags you.
When my husband went with Charles
Levea from Faris to Meaux in a fffty-mile-
an-hour gale they were dragged forty yards
over stone walls and scrub, in an over
turned carr
Destined for st. Louis.
Lambert is president of The St. Louis
Automobile Club, member of the racing
board of the A. A. a. and one of the or
ganizers of the ST Louis Aero Club
From his position in the American colony
Of Paris he has naturally seen much of the
members of the French teams destined for
st. Louis.
CnaTIeS LeNee, son or the Paris municipal
councillor, and a sporting young man about
Paris, will be Renee Cashiers aide in the
coming international contest. He is ac-
tually at his sixtieth ascension and Will
have made 1t eighty before he arrives in
st. Louis.
OF, Cashier 1 have already written you
he is chateau proprietor and deep-sea
yachtsman, an automobile racer and
ballooning enthusiast. He has never done
anything but sporting all his life. The
Gasnier-Levee team is considered very
break-neck. dashng. ready to risk any
thing to bring back the cup to France lost
last autumn. 1t is whispered by the over
weening confidence of long-reputed anna
teurs like the Count de La Vaulx and
Castillon de St. Victor who rather dis
dained too much their competitors.
There will be none of this resting on lau-
rels oft the past with the two French teams
this year If you ask why there is not a
third, as the regulations permit, you will
he answered that the third place is always
open to the distance record-holder of the
world, De La NauIX. If you ask why De
La Nauik is not going to compete. you may
be told that as America won the cup last
year with two teams instead of three, why
France must win it back with two!
Makes Fad of Work
The second French team-Leblanc and
Mix-is considered the French piker, to win.
If possible by long and judicious staying
power, minute economy Of gas and ballast.
minute attention to meteorology, and great
physical endurance in the two men.
Mix, who is the transcendental scientific
sharp of the French quartet, is a profess
sional engineer from the Ecole Centrale-
one Of those extraordinary Paris giIded
youth who make fad of work-as their
fathers made a fad of pleasure"
This dominating type of Paris youth may
daily, truly, in the pink-lit boudoir-but it
does not daily long; and it passes with an
''Ouf' of relief to the whirr and grind and
grease and CRIME of workshops. hobnobbing
with mechanics. hail-fellow with artizans
filing and fitting in lid gloves, Immaculate
cat-uke amid smoke, oil and essence.
Leblanc was brought up in a factory-the
vast zinc works of his father who, dying
suddenly, let1 the whole weight of a great
concern on the shoulders of a youth of
seventeen. How Leblanc won out and be-
came one of the prominent business men of
Paris and at the same time a foremost
automobile and ballooning sport is one of
the industrial romances of the gay capital.
They are two strong teams Leblanc-Mix
and Gasnier-Levee. 1t is new blood. 1t is
not yesterday. 1t is today!
STERLING HELLO