The Glenwood post., 1906-10-06
BALLOON TESTS
JAMES GORDON BENNETT CUF
COMPETITION.
START MADE FROM PARIS
Sixteen Airships in the Race-Many
Successfully Cross British Channel
American Believed to Have Won
the Prize.

Successfully Cross British Channel
American Believed to Have Won
| the Prize.
London.-Between and 10 Monday
morning six of the sixteen balloons en-.
gagged in tie contest for the James
, Gordon Bennett cup, which started
from Paris Sunday afternoon, arrived
on this side of the channel and con.
| tinued in northeasterly direction.
| The first to arrive was Count De La
| NauiX's balloon, Valhalla.
Later in the day several other bal.
/ looms were sighted at various points
in the southern counties of England,
| Captain Kindala's Montanes descended
y at Chichester after considerable anx-
| iety lest he be carried out over the At.
, lantic.
Hon. o. S. Rolls Brittania passed
over Cranbrook, Kent, this afternoon.
so high that it could scarcely be identi-
led.
The Italian balloon Elfe, Signor Won
| Willer, descended at New Holland.
near Hull, this afternoon.
! Lieut.. Frank p. Lahm, Sixth cav.
airy, United States army. the Ameri
+ can competitor in the balloon race, de
scended several miles south of
| Whlthy (about fifty miles north Of
| Hull) at $50 in the afternoon. He left
at once for Paris.
The Elfe made a rather perilous de
scent. Her anchor did not catch and
the balloon began to drift dangerously
/ dong much damage to property. The
aeronauts narrowly escaped being
thrown out. The BALBOA finally col
tapsed across the roof of a cottage. the
car dangling against the side of the
house. The occupants had to be as.
sisted to the ground. They said they
mistooi the Humber for the sea and
decided to land.
Lieutenant Lahm descended about
one mile inland. at Desmene farm
Flylngdale. He said he had been car
ried by way of Caen across the chan-
mel to Chichester. The actual cross
ing took from II O'Clock at night until
, in the m"rning. He then passed to
the northward, but. finding hat he was
being carried toward the open sea. he
/ decided to alight Owing 10 the dry
ness of the moors his anchors at first
would not hold, and the balloon passed
dangerously near some farm build
ingS. Lieutenant Lahm's balloon was
, in the air for twenty-three nourS.
Professor Huntington. enc of the
English contestants, in the Zephyr.
landed at Sittingborne. Kent He had
trying ordeal in crossing tne channel.
which took him eight hours. Other
wise his voyage was une-rntful. The
Zephyr could not have gene another
quarter of a mile without being car.
ried out to sea
The Walhalla. with Count De La
Vaulx, descended at 1:30 Monday
afternoon at Walsingham. Norfolk. In
I an interview the count said he had
splendid voyage, although the wind
had been uufavorable He estimated
! he had travelled $50 miles. His great
! est altitude was 1900 feet. The count
/ :tarted at once to return to Paris
The City of Chateaureaux. carrying
! Jacques Balsa", one of the French con
.estants, has come down at Singleton.
in Sussex.
The Aero club, at Paris, officially an
bounced Monday night that Lieutenant
Frank p. Lahm of the Sixth United
States cavalry, one of the American
| contestants, WAS the victor in the first
| competition for the James Gordon Ben
! nett cup for International aeronauts.
Santos Dumont had an accident
which compelled him to descend. His
arm caught in the mechanism of his
motor 'paralyzing it." according to a
dispatch received by the Aero club.
telegram from Santos Dumont
says that his injury is not serious,
hough it necessitated his being taken
20 hospital, the flesh of his arm be-
ing torn and the arm becoming numb
and stiff with the pain, which com
PEELED him to descend
Santos Dumont reached Paris at
o'clock Monday evening and received
4 great ovation at the Aero club as he
appeared with his arm in a sling. He
| explained the accident was caused by
The sleeve of his coat catching in the
mechanism while oilinG the motor OF
| his balloon
Six of the balloons landed during he
night along the coast of Normandy.
probably fearing to attempt the pas
sage of the channel, in which direction
he wind was bearing them. These
balloons are Santos Dumonts Two
Americas, landed near Broglie; Cap
ain AbererCn's Dusseldorf, at Nillers-
SurMer; Lieutcnant Herralca's Aya.
yay, a half mile from shore between
, Cabourg and Dives-SurM Mer; Baron
Won Hevald's Potherm, at Pont Adde-
mer; Senor Salamanca's Norte at
Bloueville, near Villers- Sur Mer, and F.
H. Buffers City of London at Bloue-
Vile
Later the Aero club received news
Of the landing of Count De St. Vic
ors Foehm at midnight, near Bloue'
Vile. The City of Chateau RouX, pl-
oted by Jacques Ralsan, landed on the
isle of Wight at daylight. after having
aiken four hours to cross the channel.
V. Van Den Driesches Ojoulli landed
It Bretigny. department Ct the Eure ct
4oire.
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