Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1910 — TEN BALLOONS START IN RACE [ARTICLE]

TEN BALLOONS START IN RACE

Big Gas Bags Are Headed North From St. Louis at Last Reports. Ten big balloons, representing four countries, fiew from the aero grounds at SL Louis in the international race for which the prizes are the James Gordon Bennett cup and $4,750The ten balloons are reported heading northward and the indications are that they will cross the great lakes into Canada, unless the pilots find more easterly currents at the south of Lake Michigan t° cany them into Main®.