The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-11
NINE BAL LOONS ITO LEAVE ST. LOUIS
 IN DISTANCE RACE
American Contestants in Flight Have Had Remarkable
 Experiences.

St. Louis, Mo. July 11.-The na- tional balloon race which is to start from here this aftetrnoon is the an nual elimination contest sto select en- trants for the international race for the Gordon Bennett cup-whicht will start from Kansas City next October. Each natfoR that takes part in the entrants. One of the American en- trants is R. H Epsons who won the last i1ternatfonal race which was held in Parts. The two baIloon1sts who make the greatest distance in an air ixlS the race starting to- day will be uualihed for the interna- tional race of EhiA year
 FolIowfng are the bailoonists who have entered for thes elfrni nation race:
 Warren Rason, Brookviile, O., ball
 A. D. Preston Akron O., bal loon, ''Goodyear.' :.
 Paul ?. MeCpIio onghs st Louis, bal loom Uncle Sa
 William F $ mann st Louis balloon, Miss Soda.
 John Berry, St n Louis balloon Aero Club of St Louis.
 E. s. Sole, St. Louis
 Jerome Kingsbury, New York
 ohm Watts. Kansas City.
 Roy F. Donaldson, Springfield, Ill
 H. E. Honeywell, St Louis
 All the balloons entered in the race have a capacity Of 80,o00 cubic feet. Many of the aerOnatfts have thrfI1ing g records. Captain Preston was aide to R. H. Upson in the last tnterna- tional race, and their balloon won the contest over seventeen conpeti- tors. staying in the air forty-three hours.
 Captain AtherhoIt has made over 100 balloon flights. His first long flight was in 1907 from St. Louis when with Major Henry B. Hersey he took part in the international race and landed in Canada, after crossing the Great Lakes. Tn the international race that started from Stuttgart Germany, in 1912. he flew the. lengths of Germany and Russia and landed in the Battle region near St. Peters, burg. On landing he was arrested by
 William Assmann of St. Louis has been aeronaut since he was sew enteen years old. On July IA, 1908, his baIleon fell twenty thousand feet at night into Lake Hzipissixag Cana da. Assnann was in the water ali night, and was rescued by two In- dians. In balloon he has crossed the Great Lakes three times Cap fatn Assnann will have no aide in the H1gHt this afternOOn, as his balloon is not in good condition The ball. loon Million Population Club. in which he intended to ny was lost in the recent balloon race that started from Portland, Ore
 Captain John Berry. who flew in the Million Population Clubss in the Portland race. started this aeronautic career in 1s62 when he was fourteen years old. Tn July 1912, in the na- tional races from Kansas City, Berry rode a thunderstorm for twelve hours The basket filled with water waist-deep. As aide in the race to- day. Berry will have Albert von Hofffnan, Jr.. who graduated t11is spring from the St. Louis high schools and is barely IS years old. They win fly in the sAero Club of St Louis-tIae same balloon in which Berry travelled in the international race of 1912 when he fell into the Baltic Sea
 1. s. Cole, who was granted a of- lots license in 1911. holds the dis tance record for a flight in a 70, 0Oo cubic foot eapacity balloon Tn such g balloon he flew from Topeka, Kan. to Tang1er. Okla. a distance of 345 miles.