New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-17
Acronautical Society Mem
bers Ask Fair Commits
sion to Make Change.
WOULD INSURE
MORE ENTRIES
Balloon Enthusiasts Of Aero Club
Want Race Open to Dirigi-
bles-NOtable Flights.

In letter sent Yesterday TO the Pan
anna Pacific Exposition Commission tho
Aeroneuticsl Society. at No. - west
ssth street. urged that the proposed
aeropiane race around tho world. to DO
hold as a feature Of the big fair, mn
changed 70 race across the continent.
Tho letter. in tho form 81 resolution
was IA follows:
Resolved. That tho Acronautical So
cicty. IN general meeting assembled sug-
ccs,s that tho proposed prize or S3Oo.Opo
bo offered for race from the Pacific 10
tho Atlantic coast instead or for a race
around tho world. believing that such
change would insure q sufficiently large
number 81 American and foreign entries
10 make tho race feasible and believing
that the results attained would he Of In
hnitely greater advantage to interna-
ton aeronautics and the development or
practical sll-around flying.
st tho Aero club OF America all ad-
mitted that the 'cross-continent event
would he of interest, but none would say
that the attempt 20 ny around the world
should he abandoned I'm its favor.
"Oc course II sounds impossible said
Henry Woodhousc. editor Of Flying
the of1cial Aero Club publication, but
so have the plans for every advance step
in aviation. Although tho Aero club has
not sanctioned tho event. we are goins
ahead and planning the minor details
for such a race"
The dirigible balloon committee, con-
slsting Of Howard Huntington chair
man: Henry Voodhousc. Captain Thomas
S Baldwin, frank 5. Lahm and Carl
Dienstbnch. met Yesterday and resolved
to have the around-the-w world race open
to dirigibles as well as 10 aeroplancs.
Captain Baldwin said:
The dirigible would stand an even or
better chance with the aeroplanes in such
p race In this country that is not gen
orally realized. but in Europe. where
that typo OF balloon has been developed,
II is an established fact Tho greatest
difficulty would be replcnishing the bag
with gas. II a course can be mapped
out, with stops where gas IS available,
from two to six days apart, the larger
Il should be able 20 beat the aero
planes
\ list of notable aeroplane flights last
year. prepared Yesterday by the Aero
club. included.
Crossing the Pyrenees. Pau TO Madrid
Oscar Rider. January -.
Crossing the Alps, BriCue 70 Don1o-
dossola: Bielovucci. January %.
Paris aragossa-B Barcelona Parts 1885
miles: Brindejonc des Moulineis. April
11-1c.
Paris Berlin. s55 miles, 10 hours IS
minutes; Pierre Daucourt, April ~
-RomeTurin, with passenger;
AS miles: Perreyon. May 90.
Chicago Detroit Buffalo. 1850 miles;
Beckwith. Havens and J. r. Il. Verplank.
Milan Barri. $50 miles; Deroy. July IS.
Blarritz- Bremen. sos miles; A. Seguin,
August !.
Crossing the Mediterranean; Gsrros,
September %.
Crossing the Baltic, Sweden 10 Ger
many. I13 miles: September "a
Warsaw Berlin. 342 miee hours .
minutes; victor Stoeffler, September 2s.
Paris Bordeaux Paris. 647 miles: \.
Seguin, October II.
Marseilles-Paris. $50 miles. Garros,
October IS
Paris-Cairo. made by Jules Nedrines.
November-December
Altitude. 20,295 feet. at San Rafael;
George LegagneauX
Since the first Of the year the endur-
ance record for aeroplanes has been
broken, 9 German flyer remaining in the
air more than sixteen hours while a new
over-mountain flying record was estab-
lished when an aeroplane passed over
the peak Of Mont Blanc.