The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-15
Aero CLUB OF
CONN. BANQUETS
HERE THURSDAY
Men of International Prom
inence in AerOnautics Will
Be the Speakers

Allan A. Ryan, president of the
Aero Club of America will be the
Quet of the Aero club of Connecticut
quest of the Aero club of Connecticut
to be held at The Stratfield on Thurs
day evening, April Goth. Other men OF
great prominence in the world of aero.
nautics also will be present. and the
Connecticut club members expect thai
their first banquet will be a memorable
occasion.
President A. Holland Forbes Of the
State Aero club announced today that
owing to unavoidable circumstances, il
will not be possible for Wilbur Wright
to be present. Mr.. Forbes has re-
ceived a letter of regret from Mr.
Wright, who will not be in this coun-
try in time to attend the banquet.
Letters have also been received
from President William Howard Taft
and Governor Simeon E: Baldwin
Of the club. These letters will be
read at the banquet
Capt Thomas Stott Baldwin, the
veteran Of all the aeronauts, will lie
one of the principal speakers at the
banquet. Capt. Baldwin has just re-
turned from Japan, where he has been
astonishing the Mikados subject with
bi-plane. He will regale the members
with some of his interesting expert
ences In the land Of the Rising Sun.
Capt. Baldwin is indeed veteran
in aeronautics, and that he still lives
to tell the tale of his many adventures
is remarkable. Capt. Baldwin was the
first man in America, If not in the
world, to make parachute drops from
a balloon. He was one of the first men
in the world to operate successfully
a dirigible balloon, and today is the
only man in the world who holds three
registrations in the international
Aeronautic Federation, as a pilot of
spherical balloons as pilot of dirigi-
BILE balloons and as an aeroplane pi-
lot
Alan r. Hawley, winner of the last
International balloon race, together
with his partner in the flight, Angus
tus Post. will respond to toasts. They
will tell Of their adventures in the
wilds of Canada on their last balloon
race.
Charles J. Glidden noted balloon
list will be another speaker at the ban
quet He, with Messrs. Hawley and
Post, and A. Holland Forbes, Presi-
dent of the club, make up quartette
of the most famous balloonists in the
world.
Some of the other guests of the oc-
casion who villa speak are Hiram P.
Maxim of Hartford. inventor of the
Maxim silencer and many other inpor-
tant discoveries; W. C. Beers of New
Haven a pupil of Bleriot, the, famous
French flyer and of Sapworth. a not
ed English aeronaut; Henry A. Wise
Wood Of Havana, who will tell Of
aeronautical doings in Cuba; Mayor
Buckingham who viii represent the
Buckingham who will represent the
Senator stiles Judson and Col. Ned
Osborne Of the New Haven Journal
Courier.
The last named three. Messrs Buck
ingham, Judson and Osborne, are the
only men on the toast list who never
have been up in the air. This is a
fact thath as been more than once
regretted by some Of the counsel who
have had occasion to be opposed to
Attorney Judson in various suits.
The members of the club will gather
at The Stratfield at $50 for the ban
quet. The membership of the club in
cludes we'll known residents in all the
principal cities Of the State, and the
first banquet of the club with such
a distinguished list of speakers, will
be an event of much Importance.
The committee of arrangements in
cludes Gregory Bryan, Henry Stod-
dard and Austin Bruff all of this city