Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-25
MUELLER MAKES
FINE TIME ON
SECOND VOYAGE
COVERS 200 MILES IN LESS
THAN SIX HOURS
LANDS SAFELY ON COLORADO
INDIAN RESERVATION
Balloon Safely Crosses San Jaointo
Mountains and Skins Over oes-
ert at ecord-5reaking
Pace
OAPrA1N AUGUSTA MUELLER

CAPTAIN AUGUSTA MUELLER
partly realized his ambition Mon
day afternoon when in the balloon
United States he crossed the Colorado
river on his flight from Los Angeles
and landed on the Colorado Indian
reservation, fifteen miles northeast of
Ehrenberg, Ariz The aeronauts left
Chutes park at 1913 o'clock Monday
morning and made a landing at 4:lO
o'clock the same day, after having
Travelled 260 miles in less than six
hours.
The balloon went southeast from Los
Angeles and passed over the San ia
cinto mountains. 1t must have SKINNED
over the desert at sixty-five miles an
hour. No word was heard from the
aeronauts until almost twenty-four
hours after they had landed, when a
message from Hutchinson, Capt Muel-
ler's assistant, reached Los Angeles
from Ehrenberg. 1t had been telc-
phoned thence to Yuma and was teIa-
graphed from that place, reaching Los
Angeles shortly before o'clock yester-
day afternoon.
we found an air current for sure"
sad Hutchinson. Balloon United
States landed at 4:10 o'clock Monday
afternoon fifteen miles northeast of this
village in Arizona on east side of the
Colorado river"
No message came after that and it
is presumed that the balloonists have
been making ready to bring the United
States back to Los Angeles, where
they are expected Thursday. 1t is es-
timated that they attained a height Of
at leafs three miles.
w. d. Fuller, the local weather OBJ
sery~r, says that conditions were as
favorable yesterday as they were un-
favorable Wien the first trials were
made.
IF they had started today with hy-
drogen gas they wouldn't have stopped
until they struck the gilded dome at
Boston," he said enthusiastically.
Look at the weather map, with the
wind poi ing into that area of low
pressure and nothing to stop a clean
sweep eastward. Capt. Mueller found
the current, but you must remember
that it is record for that day only
Next week he may see a condition
fully as unfavorable, while the week
following there may come another good
opportunity. Up out of the heat ana
friction of the business buildings the
wind must be blowing sixty miles an
hour"
Ferris Eager for Race
Dick Ferris was receiving congratu-
lations last night. for Capt. Mueller's
experiment proved his first contention.
That taVOrabl day would result in
g tting the balloons on tie desert be-
fore evening. Now he is hoping for
an opportunity to put on a real race.
1--WE know enough fundamentally on
which to make a proper start" Ferris
said last night, land we have in the
balloons and the hydrogen gas plant
about $4,000 represented. We are willing
to donate that if public-s spirited citizens
or some organization will provide $500
more to cover the expense of starting.
We can make a record breaking trip,
and to do it in the winter will be one
of the greatest advertisements that has
been given Los Angeles.
From an advertising standpoint it
is worth many times $500. If we can
raise this amount we will go after the
worlds record and call attention TO
Los Angeles everywhere"
Roy Knabenshue, the aeronaut, has
joined the ranks of local enthusiasts
over the possibilities of aerial naviga-
tion at Los Angeles and will make his
home here. He plans to engage in
business during the winters and man
age his five airships for exhibition pur-
poses in the summers.
II liked II here when / was in Los
Angeles several years ago." he said,
land / have been trying to get back
here as a resident ever since, This
ought to be an all-the-year- round bal
loon resort"