Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1907 — RACE OF THE DIRIGIBLES [ARTICLE]

RACE OF THE DIRIGIBLES

Won by Beacbey’• Airship, with Strobel Second; “Arrow" Third. St. Louis, Oct. 24.—Sailing to windward and return over a course measuring one mile and a half from start to finish. Lincoln Beachey, of T01ed0,,0., won the dirigible balloon, or airship, race which marked the close of the St Louis aeronautic carnival of 1907. The prize was $2,000. In bls “Beachey airship,""acigar-sbaped affair propelled by a foitr-cyclinder gasoline motor, the winner covered the distance in four minutes and forty seconds.