Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-10-19
BALLOON men
SMASH ALL
RECORDS
SIGHTED 500 MILES FROM
ST. LOUIS AND STILL GOING
Big AirShip Reported in West
Virginia Mountains After the
Longest Voyage in History of
Aerial Navigation,

my Morning journal special Leased Wire. I
~. Louis, Oct. iS.-SWinglng
through the atmosphere at a speed
roughly estimated AT twenty-five miles
an hour, the United states signal
corps balloon No. 10. In which aeron
auts j G. Mccoy and Captain Charles
DE Forest Chandler. OF the United
states signal corps. ascended here last
evening. passing over Illinois and In
diana last night and across Ohio to-
day. and at nightfall was apparently
about 60 land In the vicinity of Point
Pleasant, w Va. when last heard
from. The distance covered. on a
straight line measurement is approx
imately 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 al 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 II
was put up by the club To be won by
The n who Travelled more than
400 miles, the distance Travelled by
the United states" In the Paris races.
provided the start was made from
American soil.
Lieutenant Lahm has never held
the cup. and this was the first time II
was ever won.
When the ascension vas made here
last evening 1t was the intention OF The
a%eronauts to remain In the air an
night as a test of the gas 10 be used
by the balloons Ia the international
acronautic contests which begins here
next week. However. considering the
likelihood that they might be carried
a long distance. they went amply pre-
pared for Il long flight.
Provisions In tin ans, self heating
by a lime Stacking device. we're stored
VA the basket, and a number OF differ
ent instruments for testing purposes
we're carried.
The balloon, with a capacity of 7S.-
000 cubic feet of gas. "a filled ycs-
tordny afternoon from the gas plant
at Second and Kruger streets, A num-
Der of members Of the Aero club of
~. Lpuis and visiting a|eronauts were
present when the ascent was made at
INV " III Inv HNAfWHh iNFf HiAh
fully and suddenly veered as a sharp
wlnd struck It. collidinR with the tim
hers that supported a high coal pile In
gas plant yard, The basket seraped "A
moment th~reateningly, but prompt
work by the acronauts in throwing
some sand ballast caused the bal
loon to shake Itself free from the coal
pile unchanged and shoot straight up
hundred feet. Then It swept
toward the northeast and was soon
lost to view In the gloom of evening
The first report received from the
aerouauts was a message dropped near
Leesburg, Ohio. and tolephoncd boy the
finder 10 the Associated Press la chit
The message the balloonist had
at q a. m. u they were
then travelling southeast rapidly Lat
az they were seen passing over Gallip-
oils. onto. and by the middle Of the
afternoon they were IN West Virginia
Ia the vicinity " Point Pleasant
There the balloon started up the Ka-
naWha valley according 60 q long dis
tauCc telephone message a. st. Louis.
and NO further tidings had been RE-
coived az 10 $40 tonight Members
~ The international balloon contest
aud other acronauts here
tonight spoke Of the flight with great
enthusiasm. saving that a. viii estab-