Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-10-06
FLEET OF AIRSHIPS.
ENGLAND INVADED BY AERIAL
NAyIeAToRs FtoM FRANCE.
American Army Officer Wins the First
From raris TO Britain

PARIS, Oct "A semiofficial an
nouncement of the result of the great
alrship race for the James Gordon
Bennett cup for international aero
nauts has been given out as follows;
Winner, Lieutenant Frank F. Lahm
of America with the balloon United
States.
Second, Signor vonwiller of Italy
with the balloon Fife.
Third, Count Gle la Vaulx of France
with the balloon Walhalla.
Dispatches from London say that
Lieutenant Frank F. Lahm, Sixth cav
airy, U. S. A, the American competitor
and winner In the balloon race, de-
scended seven miles south of Whitby,
about fifty miles north of Hull, at $50
yesterday afternoon
Lieutenant Lahm said he had been
carried by way of Caen across tse
channel to Chichester. The actual
crossing took from II o'clock at night
until in the morning. He then passed
to the nOrthward; but, finding that he
was being carried toward the open sea,
he decided to alight Owing to the dry
ness of the moors his anchors at first
would not hold, and the balloon passed
dangerously near some farm buildings
Lieutenant Lahm's balloon was In
the air for twenty-three hours.
Professor Huntington, one of the
English contestants. in the Zephyr,
landed at Sittingbourne, Kent He had
a trying ordeal i'll crossing the channel
which took him eight hours. Other
wise his voyage was uneventful and
successful. The Zephyr could not have
gone another quarter of a mile without
being carried out to sea by the Thames
estuary.
Lieutenant Lahm is an instructor in
cavalry practice at West Point and
with NJ. Santos Dumont represented
the Aero Club of America in the bal
loon contest. Frank Lahm, father of
Lieutenant Lahm, was to have sailed
in the balloon United States, but the
lieutenant replaced his father. Lieu
tenant Lahm was accompanied by
Charles Levee. who is also a member
of the Aero Club of America Mr.
Lahm, Sr., although he has lived in
Paris for many years, where he is rec
ognized as one of the leading aero
nauts, is an American by birth.
\ balloon supposed to be one of
those which started from the Tuileries
gardens, Paris, Sunday noon in the
long distance International competi-
+io,, naccod ,.vap Eraxacand t,vo,+v
miles east of London, yesterday.
Six balloons crossed the channel.
The first was that of Count de Ia
Vaulx.
The Britannia, of which the Hon. C.
$. Rolls is the pilot, passed over Hin
sted Park near Cranbrook, Kent, at
noon.
With the exception of G. S. Rolls in
the Britannia. all the balloons which
left Paris Sunday are now accounted
for. The Britannia was seen over
Cranbrook The City of Chateauroux,
carrying Jacques Balsan, one of the
French contestants, has come down at
Singleton, in Sussex.
The Spanish balloon Montaner, Cap
tain Klndelan, pilot, descended at
Rumbold's Nyke, near Chichester,
Sussex, at 1870.
The British balloon Zephyr, with
Professor Huntington in charge, came
down in the Kinsley marshes at Sit
tin bourne. Ke0t ~ i"."-
The italian balloon Fife, Signor Won
wllier, pasoe-. J,c. -,,ttAdlD. >,Jn yes-
terday morning
The Walhalla, with Count de la
Vaulx, descended at half past l at
Walsingham, Norfolk. In an interview
the count said he had a splendid voy-
age, although the wind had been I'M
favorable. He estimated he had trav-
eled $50 miles His greatest altitude
was 1900 feet.
The German balloon Dusseldorf
Captain Abercron, alighted in the even
ing at Yilliers-sur-Mer
The Spanish balloon Ayaya, Lieuten-
ant Herrara, came down between Co
bourg and Dives, in the department of
Calvados; the Pommern Germany,
Baron Won HpWald Mt COnde-sIr- Isles