M. Wilfrid de Fon: loll, a leading member of the AéroClub de Paris, ree: expressed the opinion that, if ballooning were to become a popular sport in France, ladie+ would save to be persuaded t+ tuke a interest in it. "Gt the aches to go up in balloons," he exclaimed "and you may be cectrin tha: the men wil: follow their example." One of his listeners, M. Pierre Lafi'te, who takes a keen interest in all branches of sport, was much m-pres-ed by M. de Fouvielle's r-marks. He at unco determined to try the sung-s'ed experiment by founding @ prize; a va'u-able bronze object d'art," representing a young girl holding out an olive branch, for competition among la-lies who cared to brave the dang-ts of ong-distance ballooning. Whether the ultimate object, of this intere-ting camp tition is likely to be uttaived is hard to say; but this ab least is certain, "hat it has led to the ap pearance of quite 4 umber of daring aly-aeronauts, four of whom hive already held th" prize, although it is only a few days since it was founded.
The fir-t wiener of the bronze ata" was a Mile. G-rmsine Papeyre, wi "Aéro-Club LI," bal oe from Saint-Cloud to G-anese-Boesage, in the dep srtment of the Yonne, a d's a ice of about 100 mile.. But she did not possess it for lung. Th.ee day: afterwards, Mme. L, Maison aod Mrs, Foch, an Aa-tralia lady, launched themselves into mid-air. The former descended in her balloon at Ferté-Macé, in the Erne, at a distance of 126 miles
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