The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-10-13
VICTORY MAKES
Av|AT0RS GLAD
BALLOON WHICH LANDED AT
MILE Laos DECLARED
WINNER,
PILOT AND PASSENGER TIRED
Victors and vanquished Rest In Twin
Cities After Long Flight
From St. Louis.
Where They Landed.

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st. Louis III, Won Publ and O'Rielly
Mile Laos, Mimi, $50 miles, 40 hours
40 minutes.
Indiana, Magill and Shauer, Albany,
Mimi, 525 miles, 40 hours and IS min.
utes.
Cleveland, Wade and Morgan, Alex.
ander City, Ala, 452 miles, 80 hours,
Is minutes.
University City, Berry and Fox,
Mooreville, Mo-, 1876 miles, % hours,
Is minutes.
New York, Harmon and Post, Edna,
Mo-, 145 miles, 48 hours, rs minutes
Pommery, Arnold and Taylor Kno-
bel, Ark, 100 miles, % hours, 20 min
utes.
Hoosier (non-constant), Crume and
Custer, Russellville, Mo-, 1859 miles, 21
hours, 80 minutes.
Centennial, Honeywell and Tolland,
at Silas, Ala, 485 miles.
st. Paul, Oct. 8.-Joseph O'Rielly
and S. Louis Won Publ, members of
the st. Louis Aero club and unoffi-
cial winners of the Centennial and
Lahm cup, are resting at the Hotel
Ryan, after a 5OO-mile flight from
st. Louis to Wahkon, Mimi, on the
shore of Mile Laos Lake, in their bal
loon, st. Louis, No. 3.
1t was Mr.. O'Rielly's first ascension
and Mr.. Won Puhls sixteenth, although
the latter never before participated in
a race. Landing at Wahkon, the aero
nauts drove twenty miles early to-
day, caught the Great Northern train
from Duluth at Moro, and got into
Minneapolis at LAS p. m. Both were
unshaven and otherwise unkempt, but
elated over their victory
"We had as much hard luck as any,
body" said Mr.. Won Publ. ut seems
to have been remarkable race.
Every balloon seems to have encoun-
tered adverse currents"
In st. Paul the aeronauts found
telegram from E. A. Faust of St. Louis,
reading: ''Unofficially you are the
winners of the Centennial and Lahm
cup. We all send congratulations"
Pleased With Trip.
The record long-distance flight is
that made in 1907 by Oscar Erbsloe,
of Germany, who won the Gordon
Bennett cup by flight of 1873 miles.
The newly arrived aeronauts talked
enthusiastically of their trip. They
crossed the Mississippi river into
Illinois, but an adverse current car
ried them back over st. Genevieve,
Mo. They travelled west all Monday
night, and daylight found them over
Bonneville, Mo-, and noon over Glas-
gov, Mo.
Glasgow came near being their hoo
doc, for they found themselves three
separate times passing above this
town. The first time they sailed west,
then back east over Glasgow. Leav-
ing the little town behind they en-
countered another cross current which
promptly carried them west again, and
3 p. m. Tuesday found them poised
again above Glasgow. Discouraged
and indignant, they threw overheard
everything they could spare. Cloth
ing, accessories, awnings, everything
went except one orange, bottle of
water and their recording instruments.
At 1880 Tuesday they were over
Lexington, Mo-, and then began the
long flight northward. When they
came down at Wahkon they had sight
ed Mile Laos and thought it was Lake
Superior. They reported the greatest
difficulty in getting any information
of their whereabouts.
Unwilling To Give Up.
Minneapolis, Oct. 1.-TWO sick and
crippled aviators, who had fought for
each others lives and who still are
unwilling to believe that they are not
winners of the Lahm cup offered the
starters from st. Louis, left a Great
Northern train from Albany at the
Union station, seeking medical serv-
ices before starting for Chicago.
From there they proceed to
their homes in Dayton, Ohio, home
of the Wright brothers.
One man was sick when he started.
so i'll that he was slung in hammock
in the balloon car. The other dislo
Gated his collar bone in a whirlwind
near st. Cloud. Both were scarcely
able to walk when they arrived in
Minneapolis. They had thrilling
story of their battle with wind and
cold to tell. Three miles above the
earth their instruments no longer
recorded cold or altitude. They had
reached their maximum.