New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-10-19

St. Louis. Oct. 1s.-swinging through the
atmosphere at a speed estimated at twenty two
miles an hour. the United States Signal Corps
balloon 10. in which J. c. Mccoy and Cap
tain Charles De f. Chandler. Of the United
States Signal Corps. asccn6ed at St. Louis last
evening. passed over Illinois and Indiana last
night and across Ohio to-day, and tonight
probably landed in the neghborhood of Point
Pleasant w. Va. The distance covered. on a
straight line measurement is approximately
five hundred miles and thePlength Of the voyage
won for the aeronauts the Lahm Cup.
When the ascension was made last evening
It was the intention OF the aeronauts to remain
in the air all night test OF the gas TO be
used by the balloons in the international con-
tests. which will begin Monday. However.
considering the likelihood that they might be
carried n long distance the aeronauts went pre-
pared for n long fight. Provisions in tin cans.
seIf-heated by a lime Stacking device, were
stored in the basket and number OF ditfereht
instruments for testing purposes we're carried
The first report received from the aeronauts
was a message dropped near LeesourE' Ohlo'
and telegraphed by the finder to chicago Ihe
message stated that the balloonists had dropped
IT at 6 a m. and that they were then travelling
southeast rapidly
Gauipolis. Ohio. and by the middle of the after
noon they were in West Virginia, near Point
Pleasant There the balloon started up the
tanavha valley. according to a telephone mes
so,,a m Ct Louis Members of the international
balloon contest committee and other aeronauts
Tonight said that the flight would establish an
epoch in balloon sailing.
The Lahm Cup was instituted by the Aero
Club of America soon after the international
races at Paris in 1906 when Frank T. Lahm
won the James Gordon Bennett Cup for the
Aero Club of America. So pleased were the
members of the club at the victory that the
Gun 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 moro
than 4O2 miles. the distance travelled by the
United States in the Paris race provided the
start was made from American soil. Lieutenant
Lahm has never held the cup ana 'hIS was 'he
first time il was ever Won
The balloon stevens 81. in which Alan r.
IJovlev and Augustus Post. ascended at $50
O'clock last evening landed to-day sixteen miles
from Indianapolis and about 225 miles on
straight line from st. Louis. The balloon carried
55 600 cubic feet of gas and Hawley and Post
made the ascension simply as test flight The
bag was filed with gas of an inferior quality
comDared with the gas used by Mccoy and
Chandler.
Oscar Frbesloeh and Hans Heidemann who
will pilot the balloon representing Germany. In
the international contest. made an ascension in
the small balloon Psyche this afternoon. Just
after they cleared the ground at the Rutger
+roa+ GAS plant the balloon travelled straight
for a high brick wall Quickly they cut away
ballast bags cleared the wall and made directly
for a smokestack Again. quick use of knives in
cutting away more ballast averted a collision
with the smokestack. but the car struck guy
wire which snapped The balloon. lightened of
considerable ballast leaped upward while the
snectators cheered Justify. After a voyage of
two and a half hours, the Psyche descended
without mishap at Red Bud. Ill, thirty miles
southeast Of st Louis
The worlds balloon record. which has stood
for seven years, was established in 1900 by Count
Henri Delavaux, who covered 1900 miles in
balloon. from Paris into Russia. He broke the
record established on July l. 1859. by Professor
John Wise who covered distance of 1,150
miles. from St Louis to Henderson, n. Y.