The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-19

l. Eairmont w. Va, says.
J. "a blue light far above town was =
= distinguished shortly after l o'clock
= this morning. The light IS rapidly
y travelling eastward II is DeneVeu
y here that IL is the army Daiiooh'
= which started from St Louis Wednes-
= day evening. .
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ST Louis. Oct ls-SwingEng through the
atmosphere at a speed roushly estimated
at % miles an hour, the Uuited States sig
nal corps balloon No TO- m which Aero
nauts ]. c. Mccoy and Captain Charles
de F. Chandler, of the United States sig
nal corps. assembled here last evening,
RAISED over Illinois and Indiana last
night and across Ohio today. and at night
fall was apparently about TO land in the
vicinity of Point Pleasant W. Va, when
last heard from. The distance covered,
on a straight line, is approximately 500
miles and the voyage won for the aero
nauts the Lahm cup.
The Lahm cup was instituted by the
Aero Club of America soon after the IN
ternational races at Paris in 1906, at which
Lieutenant Frank Lahm won the James
Gordon Bennett cup for the Aero Club OF
America. So joyful were the members of
the club at the victory that the cup was
named for the pilot of the balloon United
States" and it was put up BY the club
10 be won by the aerOnaut VINO Travelled
more than 420 miles, the distance travelled
by United States in the Paris races,
provided the start was made from Ameri-
SOIL
Lieutenant Lahm never held the cup
and this was the first time it was ever
won.
Remained in Air All Night.
When the ascension was made here last
evening 1t the intention OF the aero
nauts to remain in the air all night as a
test of the gas to be used by the bal
looms in the international aeronautic con-
tests which begin here next week How
ever, considering the likelihood that they
might be carried long distance. they
went amply prepared for a long flight.
Provisions in tin cans, self-hea ting by
n lime Stacking device, were stored in the
LaSket, and "A number of different instru-
ments for testing purposes We're carried.
The balloon, with a capacity of 1900
cubic feet of gas, was filled yesterday aft
ernoon from the gas plant at Second and
Rutger streets. \ number of members of
the Aero Club of st. Louis and visiting
aeronauts We're present when the ascent
was made at 4:lO p. m. The balloon rose
gracefully and suddenly veered as q shsrD
wind struck IL. cOlliding with the timbers
mat supported A high coal pile in the gas
plant yard. The basket scraped a no.
ment threateningly. but prompt work bv
the aerOnauts in throwing out some sand
ballast caused the balloon to shake itself
free from the coal pile unchanged and
shoot straight up several hundred feet
Then IL swept toward the northeast and
was soon lost 10 view in the gloom of
evening
Message During Flight.
The first report received from the aero
nautS was message dropped near Lees
burg, Ohio, and telegraphed by a finder
TO the Associated Press in Chicago
The message the balloonists had dropped
at a. m, and they We're then travelling
southeast rapidly. Later they were seen
passing over GallipOlis. Ohio. and bv the
middle of the afternoon they were i'm West
N Niirglnla, in the vicinity of Point Pleasant.
Ihere the balloon started up the Kanawha
valley. according TO a long distance teIe-
phone message to St Louis, and no Iur-
LnSr uolnss had been received up to $50
o'clock tonight. Members of the inter
national balloon contest COMMITTEES and
other aeronauts here tonight spoke of the
Ingnt with great enthusiasm. saving that
u VIII establish a memorable epoch in bal
loon sailing.