The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-18
AERIAL RECORDS.
Count de In Vaulx Has Gone Further
Than Any Other Aeronaut.

The record flights made by balloon
lists are registered and reflected upon
by writer under the heading Aerial
Records" He says that the palm for
long distance ballooning must be
awarded to that very famous aeronaut,
Count de la Naulx The count has per-
formed many extraordinary feats but
his greatest achievement was his trip
with Count CastiIlon de Saint-Victor
in October, 1900, in the good (aeriaD
ship Centaure. from Paris to Kovosty
chef, in Russia, almost 1900 miles.
This remarkable flight. the writer
record that had been held for / years
by Mr.. Wise. who. in company with
three other intrepid aeronauts. started
from ST. Louis, L. S. A, on June %.
until when nearly dead they brought
their I,150-mile voyage to a conclusion
in the state of New York. Other
voyages are recalled as follows:
The exact distance covered by Cap
tain Goossens when in the autumn of
1908 he and companion were caught
in a gale and were carried for Is hours
from Berlin to La Rochelle and back
to Calais. did not transpfre, but in all
proba bility ii was not less than the
1865 kilometers that Louis Goddard
travelled on September 10 and 20,
1898. and considera bly, more than the
distance, S35 miles, that Mr.. Balsam
journeyed on the occasion upon which
cennes to Opozno, in Russia Count
CastilIon de Saint-Victor journeyed to
Sweden in 1899, when he voyaged
from Paris to Vesterwick in "a hours
less IS minutes. the distance being 825
miles; while in 1870 the neighbering
country of Norway provided an aiight-
ing spot for Mr.. Paul Roller. when,
during the siege of Paris in that year,
he Travelled in postal balloon from
that city to Lifted. TIA miles away"
A voyage of peculiar Importance,
we are told. was the trip of $50 miles
that Miss Moulton accomplished in
1903. from ST. Cloud to Kleinwierau,
near Bresiau, in the Centaure, man
aged by Count CastilIon de Saint-Vic-
tor This is believed to be a womans
record for distance. The prize winner
was about to visit friends in Germany.
and, sending on her luggage in adj
vance determined to proceed as far as
she could by balloon. That a nineteen
hour sail in the heavens should de-
post the traveller within 80 miles of
her destination, and almost as soon as
her luggage, was certainly noteworthy
The writer goes on:
'Apropos of this lengthy voyage IL
may here be mentioned that the Aero
clubs Longest Distance Prize given
by Miss Krabbe. and won IN 1905 by
Hon Mrs. Hartford, who was piloted
by Mr. Frank Butler. on September 1,
fell to a journey of 195 Il miles from
London to Bridlington, Yorkshire,
winch was not more imam IWO-S0Fef1IhS
of the distance Travelled by Miss Moul-
ton. who. however, was seven hours
longer en- route.
''The long-distance baIlooning
won by Count de la Vaulx and Mr..
Paul Tissandler in 1905 fell to a Jour-
ney of $50 miles. from st. Cloud to
Pretzch on the Elbe, close to Witten-
berg the journey taking 90 hours.
This cup it should be mentioned. had
been previously held by NJ. David.
who. in December. 1904, journeyed
Belgian-Dutch frontier. a distance of
Just under 500 miles. or about so miles
farther than the journey accom- plished
by Lieutenant Lain last Septemb Der,
when he won the Gordon Bennett
trophy for the United States with a
voyage that resulted in mis- being con-
viewed from Paris to the Demesne
Farm. Fylinsdale near Whitby. in
the course of 21H hours,
EFT is scarcely necessary to dwell
upon Mr. Leslie BucknalFs recent bal
loon trip to the Alps, 400 miles in 16
hours as the details will be fresh in
the memory: but it may be put on
record that when Count de la Vaulx
starting toward the end of Septem Der,
1903 landed at Carlam Hill. six miles
northeast of Hull, thereby accomplish
country he and his companions. Count
D'OuItremont and Captain Voyer. In
II hours 10 minutes travelled $50
miles or about 10 miles farther than
the great Nassau balloon. achieved on
that famous voyage on November T.
1886, when in Is hours it travelled
from VauxhaH Gardens to Weilburg in
the Duchv Of Nassau. London Car.
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