The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-10-24
BALLOON Travels
ABOUT 500 Miles
CAPT. CHARLES CHANDLER AND
J. c. M'coY WIN THE
LAHM CUP.
Three States Crossed--starting from
ST. Louis for Night Test Flight,
the Aeronauts Keep on Until They
Reach West Virginia.

st. Louis, Oct. 19.-Swingins
through the atmosphere at a speed
roughly estimated at % miles an
hour, the United States signal corps
balloon No. 10, in which Aeronauts ].
c. Mccoy and Capt. Charles Def.
Chandler, of the United States signal
corps, ascended here Thursday eve
ming, passed over Illinois and Indiana
Thursday night, and across Ohio FRI
day, and at nightfall was apparently
about to land in the vicinity of Point
Pleasant, w. Va.
The distance covered, on q straight
line measurement, is approximately
500 miles, and the voyage won for the
aeronauts the Lahm cup.
The Lahm cup was instituted by the
Aero Club of America, soon after the
international races at Paris in 1906, at
which Lieut. Frank p. Lahm won the
James Gordon Bennett cup for the
Aero Club of America. So joyful were
the members of the club at the vic.
tory that the cup was named for the
pilot of the balloon United States.
and it was put up by the club to be
won by the aeronaut who travelled
more than 402 miles, the distance
travelled by the United States In the
Paris races, provided the start was
made from American soil. Lieut..
Lahm has never held the cup, and this
was the first time 1t was ever won.
Were Ready for Long Flight.
When the ascension was made here
Thursday evening II was the intention
Of the aerUnauts to remain in the air
all night as test Of the gas to be
used by the balloons In the interna-
tional aeronautic contests which begin
here next week. However. consider.
ing the likelihood that they might be
carried long distance, they went
amply prepared for long flight.
Provisions in tin cans. self-heating
by a lime Stacking device, were stored
In the basket and a number OF differ
ent instruments for testing purposes
were carried.
- Reports from the Balloon.
The first report received from the
aeronauts was message dropped near
Leesburg, O., and telegraphed by the
finder to Chicago. The message stated |
the balloonists had dropped 1t at six
a. m. Friday and they we're then
travelling southeast rapidly.
Later they were seen passing over |
Gallipolis, o., and by the middle OF the |
afternoon they were in West Virginia,
In the vicinity of Point Pleasant. |
There the balloon started up the |
Kanawha valley, according to a long |
distance telephone message to st.
Louis. Members Of the international
balloon contest committee and other |
aeronauts here spoke OF the flight
with great enthusiasm, saying that 1t
will establish a memorable epoch In
balloon sailing.
Hawley and Post Descend.
The balloon Stevens No. 2l. in which
Alan r. Hawley and Augustus Post
from here at $3.50 Thursday
evening, landed Friday near London,
Ind, l6 miles from Indianapolis. and
about 225 miles In u straight line
from st. Louis. The balloon carried
$4,000 cubic feet of gas and Hawley
and Post made the ascension simply
as a preliminary test fight. The bag
was filled with gas of an inferior
quality compared with the gas used
by Mccoy and Chandler In No. ~ bal
loon.