Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-02

| oCtODcf IA Sclul-OluCldl all
| nouncement of the result of the balloon
| race was given out last night Lieut.. Frank
P. Lahm is announced as the winner He
| is first lieutenant Of the 9th Cavalry. He
| has been interested in ballooning for some
| time and made many experiments for the
army with war balloons when he was sta
| toned out west and afterward at West
Point. When ascensions were made from
West Point last winter by Count de la
Vaulx and others Lieut. Lahm assisted in
| the preparations and took a great deal Of
interest in the work of the foreign aero
nauts. In this race Lieut.. Lahm represented
| the Aero Club of New York
Five of the sixteen balloons which started
| in the race landed during the night along
| the coast Of Normandy, probably fearing
| to attempt the passage Of the channel, in
| which direction the wind was bearing them
| namely M. Santos-Dumont's Two Ameri-
| cas-, near Broglie; Capt. Abercrons Dussel-
| dorf, at Villers-sur-Mer; Lieut.. Herrara's
Ayayay. half mile from shore, between
CabOurg and DiveS-Sur-Mer; Baron Won
Hewald's Potmern, at Pont Auldene; Senior
| Salamanca's Norte. at Blouville. near VII
lers-sur-Mer, and Mr.. F. H. Buffers City
of London, at Blouville. NJ. Santos Du-
| to descend. His arm caught In the mechan-
| ism of his motor "paralyzing it," accord
| ing to a dispatch received by the Aero Club
The balloons which descended on this side
of the channel landed between 1890 pm
and midnight.
Not Seriously Injured.
A telegram from NJ. Santos-Dumont said
that his injury was not serious though it
necessitated his being taken to a hospital,
the flesh of his arm being torn and the arm
becoming numb and stiff with the cold,
which compelled him to descend.
Later the Aero Club received news of the
landing of the Comte de ST. Victor's Foehn
at midnight near Blouville, the count not
venturing to cross the channel on account
Of the uncertainty Of the wind.
Mr.. Van den Driesche's balloon, Ojoukl,
| landed at Bretigny, department of the
Eure- et-Loire.
Signor Vonwiller, in the Ellie, in nineteen
hours made practically the same voyage as
Comte Henri de La Vaulx in 1903, when he
landed at Hull, covering so kilometres in
seventeen hours.
NJ. Santos-Dumont reached Paris at 6
o'clock this evening and received a great
| ovation at the Aero Club as he appeared
with his arm in sling. He explained that
the accident was caused by the sleeve of his
! coat catching in the mechanism while OIL
| ing the motor of his balloon.
Up to late hour last evening all the
competitors in the great balloon contest
had been accounted for, with the exception
| OF Z. II. HuIlS, VINO was III the Britannia,
accompanied by Col. Capper. The Britain
MIA passed over Hemstead Park Gran
brook, Kent, shortly after II o'clock noon
yesterday. Since then definite news of their
movements is lacking.
Lieut.. Frank Lahm. an American COM
petitor, in the car United States, alighted
on Demesne farm, Flyindale. seven miles
south of Whitby at about $3.50 O'Clock yester
day afternoon. He reported that he crossed
the channel by way of Caen to Chichester,
the passage over the water occupying from
IL o'clock on Sunday night until 3 o'clock
yesterday.
Difficulty in Alighting.
He was carried northward and not until
he neared the sea did he think it advisable
to alight. He experienced some difficulty
in go doing owing to the dryness of the
turf. The place Of his descent was about
a mile inland. He set off Immediately for
Paris.
The Zephyr descended at Invade marshes
near Sittingbourne. Kent at noon yesterday,
after a voyage of eighteen hours. The
Pollock Of the Aero Club proceeded to
the village inn, where they rested and re-
freshed themselves. Mr.. Pollock told
Daily Chronicle representative that this
made his fourth balloon trip across the
channel
1--WE got to the French coast" he said,
Eat am and decided to cross. There was
light southeast wind-so light, in fact,
that a low average rate of speed was all
we coud make throughout the trip. At
starting. from Paris we picked up our posi-
ton by the Seine and ran as far as -Rouen
At this point we decided that If we could
reach the coast in two hours We would
cross.
Marvellous Picture Seen.
1.-The coast was reached in stipulated
time and the cross channel trip was
tered upon. A wonderful sight was pre-
sented at night when the moon passed be-
low the horizon. The rise of the sun,
which appeared to come bodily out Of the
sea- presented a picture Of indescribable
grandeur. In the morning when daylight
broke there was nothing in sight. We were
simply sailing through space at a slow and
easy rate, so slow that it took us about
seven hours to cross
Eat 8 o'clock we sighted Beachy Head,
AMI, Still holding on a southeasterly, course
and kNeptng low, we crossed over to the
English coast between Hastings and Rye
We ran over Sussex, crossed the border
into Kent, and finally landed"
The balloon Villa de Chateauroux, piloted
by NJ Jacques Balzan,, after passing over
Bernay and Bauville, alighted In the Isle
of Wight at 4 o'clock this morning NJ
BALKAN feared he would not be able to pro-
coed, as the wind was blowing the balloon
back to sea. The channel crossing was ef-
feeted in four hours.
Dramatic Descent.
The Elfe. which represented Italy. de-
scended somewhat dramatically at o'clock
this afternoon at New Holland. a small
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