Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-28
SWISS AERO CLUB FILES
PROTEST ON BIG RACE.

NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-America's
representatives at the meeting of the
International Aeronautic Federation in
Paris, January 10. are to face a new
and unexpected protest.
The Swiss Aero Club, according to a
communication received from the head
quarters of the federation, has filed a
formal protest charging that the inter-
national balloon race held from st.
Louis in October was not organized
properly. The race was won by Messrs.
Hawley and Post in the America II.
1t is understood hat the Swiss club
has no fault to find with the race IT.
self or with its results, but only with
the management of affairs in st. Louis
up to the time the balloons left.
A statment by Cortlandt F. Bishop
regarding the matters under protest is
as follows:
Conditions at st. Louis were not as
good as might have beer desired, but
| have no reason to believe they were
not as good as possible. In spite of the
fact that two features were not salts
factory and served to handicap the
starting of the balloons they were
started just as promptly as when the
race was held in Zurich, Switzerland.
Both the handicaps al ST. Louis
were due to conditions over which the
Aero Club of st. Louis, which was in
charge, had no control. One was the
supply of gas, which was sufficient, but
slow. This was due to the fact that the
gas works were at the time under
urnipo, n ora,araI Oxyarhat,Jin- nn5 a
unable to meet the demand in the de-
sired time. 1t took twelve hours to fill
h balloons, whereas, IL the works had
been in their normal condition, two
hours would have been ample for the
purpose.
Another trouble was in the force
of men in charge of the field; the in
tlation OF the balloons n the general
preparations for the fight. They were
militiamen and others employed for the
purpose, and while willing and faith
full, had lever had any experience in
~ballooning. In 1907 we had the use of
selected men from the Signal Corps of
the United States army, and there was
neither hitch nor delay. Protests were
made afterward, however, against
United States troops being assigned to
such duties, n President Roosevelt
issued an order prohibiting 1t there
after.
1.-THE st. Louis Aero Club has been
notified of the Swiss protest and asked
to furnish data with which to meet it.
[ have no doubt we will be able to
overthrow the protest, but it may re-
suit in s~tricter regulations for the race
hereafter.
TT Is a grave question, in that
event, where to start the race of 1911.
1t must be at some city where a good
supply of gas can be obtained, and such
cities are few in this country"
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 28.-Albert B..
Lambert, president of the Aero Club of
st. Louis, attaches no Importance to
the protest of the Swiss Aero Club
against the management of the inter-
rational balloon race which started
from here last October.
Members of the Swiss team protest
ed before the ace started" said Presi-
Gent Lambert, Saying they had not
been notified Of the rules and reguIa-
tions governing the race. The rules
were posted in the Aero Club head
quarters. The Swiss teams objections
were so childish that the French teams