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Show BALLOON RACE ENDS AI SEA New York, Aug. 15. A dispatch to the Herald from Paris says: The long-dis:ance long-dis:ance balloon race, which started from the Pare d'Aerota station at Vin-cennes, Vin-cennes, could not be brought to a statistical sta-tistical conclusion, as the leading bal loons were stopped by the ocean. The. first prize may go to the Covjte I De La Vaulx, whose balloon, the Horl-I Horl-I zon. of 3.300 cubic metres capacity, th largest in the competition, descended at Ouerande, in the department of Loire inferljre. M. Faure, in his balloon, the Aero Club, of 1.630 metres, landed neat-Mantes, neat-Mantes, while the Comte Ue Castillon de St. Victor, in the balloon Cantaur. 1.650 cubic metres, landed within sight of the ocean near Lorient. j The Temns point.: out that nothing would be easier than to avoid races that must necessarily be such failures. As regards a distance record, it would suffice for the committee to have the option of transforming the distance race into a landing contest at a given spot when the wind blows toward the ocean. This would evoke no complaint, j ( since the same aeronauts always com- j 1 :te. " i On Aug. 1! will take place the contest j for landing at a given point. The chances are that the wind will i then blow inland, and will be favorable j for the distance races, but it will h impossible to take advantage of this circumstance, because the nature-of th I contest is specified in hard and fast 1 programme drawn up months ago. j M. Kmrnanu"! Aime. who is the scre- j tary of the Aero club, was interviewed ! on his aerial trip in the Orient, after 1,043 cubic metres. j He said: "We shot up to a height of 1.000 metres, and the wind carried u.s toward the south. Then we drifted westward until we arrived at La Fleche and anchored, as we had no more ballast, except what we were bound to return to Vincennes with. , "During the trip our balloon passed several other balloons, and we even i conversed with M. Faure in the balloon j the Aero Club. j "At a Quarter to 10 the two balloons i parted company, the Orient going to the west and the Aero Club toward the ! northwest, with an upper current. j "The other balloons were seen to i separate ami disappear in different di- J J rections." |