New-York tribune., 1907-10-24
NO ACCIDENTS ON TRIPS,
BalIoonists Come to Earth Little
Worse for Experience.

Asbrr1v Park n j. Oct 23-The German
balloon Pornulern. Oscar Ersloeh, pilot and
Henry NJ Clayton aid. landed at Bradley Park,
half a mile south from Asbury Park proper, at
8 o'clock this morning. In its first descent the
anchor rope caught in a tree and the aeronauts
ascended again. Then second descent was
made and this time the balloon landed safely on
the beach. a few hundred yards from the shore.
Frsloeh said that the balloon was in good con-
dirion. and that he and Clayton had enjoyed the
trip immensely
Nj Clayton said that the voyage from st.
Louis had taken exactly forty hours less five
minutes. according 70 the time recorded by him
self and Ersloeh. In telling the story Of the
trip Mr.. Clayton said:
This morning We were over Philadelphia at
sunrise, and stayed there at an altitude OF
10000 feet for about hour. This was the
highest altitude reached by us on the trip We
kept moving up and down over the city as we
we're desirous of finding an air current that
would carry Us northward. Our ambition was
70 reach New York City. and very sorry
that we were unable 10 realize IT. we - hSo So
US for further journey Of five or SIX hundred
miles.
Mr. CLAYTON did not sleep during the whole
trip, and he was tired and sleepy when no
alighted from the balloon. Mr. Erbsloeh was
asked whether he had had any sleep since his
balloon led the flight from St Louis, and he
wink or two, but not more"
Mr. Clayton who is from the Blue Hill OBJ
servatory, near Boston, said that this was his
first trip in any but captive balloon.
Atlantic City. y. ], Oct. 23.-The French
balloon LIsc de France landed at Hubertsville
n. J. some miles south of this point, at 1:10
o'clock this afternoon. The landing was made
without incident Alfred Leblanc the pilot,
hired a farmer and team, the balloon and car
were loaded into market wagon and they were
al driven 70 Point Pleasant, where they boarded
the late afternoon train for New York
Richmond Va. Oct. pm Cashier, the pilot
and NJ Levee, the other occupant of the French
balloon Aniou which landed in Louisa County
Va earlv to-day. left with their balloon for New
York this afternoon The trip from st. Louis
was made without noteworthy incident beyond
the fact that the two aeronauts suffered consid-
erably from cold in crossing the Alleghenies al
high altitude.
Dover. DEL oct 23.-The German balloon
Dusseldorf Captain Hugo Abercron, pilot
landed four miles east of this city at sos
O'clock this morning, the distance travelled from
st Louis being about eight hundred miles, at
an average speed of about twenty miles an hour
The landing was comfortably made in corn
field in which the cora had not yet been cut
The pilot and his aid, Hans Heidemahh' were
We'll and said they had enjoyable trip and
that the balloon behaved splenddly.
Washington. Oct 23-Captain Charles De F.
Chandler, Of the signal corps of the army who
accompanied Pilot J. c. Mccoy on the balloon
America, arrived in Washington this afternoon
coming directly from Patuxent, Md, where
Their balloon landed al O'Clock this morning
Ar. Mccoy packed his balloon and went TO New
4"fk The America was sailing almost due east
when Mr. Mccoy decided TO anchor. From the
record made by the German balloon Pommern
f Is clear that the America had no chance TO
"ih' had IT continued. for there war not land
enough TO the east for Mccoy and Chandler's
Daiiocn to cover the difference had they con-
"lasd 70 poiat the Atlantic Ocean.
1He occupants Of the America stood the trip
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