Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-11
NINE BALLOONS TO
I. CONTESTEOR THIRD
AMERICAN ENTRY
Winner Will Complete This
Country's Representation in
International Air Race.
October Competition Will Be
for Bennett Cup-For-
mer Records.

ST. LOUIS, July 1l.-Nine balloons will
sail from here late this afternoon in the
national elimination race to determine
the third American entrant for the in
ternational race that will start from
Kansas City in october. The international
race is for the James Gordon Bennett
cup, and each competing country is en-
titled to three entrants The first two
American entrants are the men who got
national race r. H. Epson of Kansas
The third entrant will be the aeronaut
who makes the longest flight in an air
line in the race today.
Specially prepared gas is to be pumped
into the balloons. Each balloon has a
capacity of $4,000 cubic feet, and the
aeronauts will sail equipped for long
flight. The record for American flights
was made in 1910 by Allen r. Hawley.
who flew from st. Louis to Lake Tchoto-
CANA, Quebec, distance of 1.1729 miles.
The worlds record was made by Maur-
ice Remains of France in the interna.
tional race of 1912. He flew 1,354 miles
The order in which the balloons will sail
was determined by lot yesterday after
noon, the coyeted last place going to the
balloon Goodyear. to be piloted by R. A.
D. Preston of Akron. Ohio.
Order of Release.
Following is the order in which the
bags will be released at intervals of five
minutes, the first one starting at i
o'clock:
l. Hoosier. pilot. Warren Rasor. Brook
vile. Ohio; aid. Herbert Rasor, son OF
pilot.
2. America III. pilot. Dr. Jerome Kings.
bury. New York: aid, Clarence Wynne
Philadelphia.
3. San Francisco. 1915. pilot. E. S
Cole, st. Louis; aid. r. E. Emerson
Springfield. Mo.
4. Uncle Sam, pilot. Paul J. McCul-
lough, st. Louis; aid. William H
5. Miss Sofia, pilot, William Assmann
st. Louis: no aid.
6. Aero Club of st. Louis. pilot, John
Berry. st. Louis: aid. Albert Won Hoff-
man, jr.. St Louis.
Z. Kansas City III, pilot. John Watts
Kansas City; aid, w. F. Comstock
Kansas City.
8. Pennsylvania. pilot. Arthur T
Atherholt. Philadelphia; aid. Phillip
SharpleSs, Philadelphia. ----~----
g.. :; GoodysaE Ss;a pilot r. A D. Preston
Akron.
Have Thrilling Records.
All the balloons entered in the race have
a capacity of $4,000 cubic feet. Many OF
the aeronauts have thrilling records.
Capt. Preston was aid to R. H. Upson in
the last international race, and their bal
loon won the contest over seventeen COM
petitors, staying in the air forty-three
hours.
Capt Atheholt has made more than 100
balloon flights. His first long flight was
In 1907, from St Louis. when. with Maj.
Henry B. Hepsey. he took part in the
international race and landed in Canada,
after crossing the great lakes In the
international race that started from Stutt-
CART, Germany. in 1912. he flew the
lengths of Germany and Russia, and
landed in the Baltic region near st.
Petersburg. On landing he was arrested
by the Russian authorities as a German
spy.
William F. Assmann of ST Louis has
been an aeronaut since he was seventeen
years old. July II. 1909. his balloon fell
1000 feet at night into Lake Nipissing
Canada. Assmann was in the water ali
night, and was rescued by two Indians.
In balloon he has crossed the great
lakes three times. Capt. Assmann will
have no aid in the flight this afternoon.
as his balloon is not in good condition.
The balloon. Million Population Club, in
which he intended to fly. was lost in the
recent balloon race that started from
Portland, Greg.
Aeronaut Since 1862.
Capt. John Berry, who flew in the Mil
lion Population Club in the Portland race.
started his aeronautic career in 1862.
when he was fourteen years old III July,
1912. in the national races from Kansas
City. Berry rode a thunderstorm for
twelve hours The basket filled with
water waist-deep. As aid in the race
today, Berry will have Albert Won Hoff-
man, jr.. who graduated this spring from
the st. Louis high schools. and is barely
sixteen years old. They will fly in the
Aero Club of st. Louis. the same bal
loon in which Berry Travelled in the inter-
race of 1912 when he fell into
the Baltic sea.
E. S. Cole. who was granted pilots
license in 1911 holds the distance record
for flight in a 0O-cubic-foot-capacfty
balloon. In such a balloon he flew from
Topeka, Kan, to Tangier. Okla, dis
tance Of 375 miles.
American Society at Copenhagen.
Foreign Correspondence OF The Star.
COPENHAGEN. July 2-An Ameri-
can Society of Denmark has been
formed here to encourage and IA
ciiitate the exchange of scientific and
applied knowledge between Denmark and
the United States. and particularly to
aid Scandinavian students in America
and American students in Scandinavia
Help will be given through the society
to citizens of either country desiring 10
establish trade relations with the other
A special committee has been formed
also to work with the Danish govern
ment in selecting students under the
Americana Scandinavian foundation. as
the Niels Poulsen fund is called.
Private Homes Disappearing.
Construction of privates homes in Man.
haitian is practically thing of the past.
And even the fine old mansions are being
altered into apartment and store build
ngs. Building statistics of Manhattan
Island for the past two or three years
would indicate that the detached dwell
ing is rehearsing its swan song" says