New-York tribune., 1909-06-08

v.P SHOWING WHERE THE BALLOONS
CAME DOWN
-s@,e-noon. +7-o reports have been received
.-o-, the Indiana. The first one was that it
lad touched the earth I'm Tennessee and had
-slen on water and proceeded south If this be
r-,,e The balloon Is disqualified under the rules
,+,e international aeronautic federation.
second dispatch. signed by the pilot carl
Fisher and the aid. - l. Bumbaush stated
that they dropped down near enough to earth
,t schackle Island Tenn. at o'clock last night
70 iet down line and draw UP bucket OF
-s4sr thereafter rising FOR further travel
schacklc Island is twelve miles north Of Nash
vile Under the latter conditions the Indiana
&c not disqualified and has broken tho endu-
-snoe record Il is not possible according to
available information, that the Indiana broke
the distance record of So miles. for it had not
room enough
The other balloons landed as follows:
The St Louis III. A. r. Lambert pilot and H
= Honeywell aid. landed at Kelso, Tenn. coy
ing about $40 miles
The New York A. Holland Forbes pilot, land
s5 at Corinth Miss, covering so miles in SO
hours and 10 minutes
The University City. Of St. Louis }. :. Berry,
Of ST Louis. pilot travelled $40 miles, landing
at Blanche Tenn. Time. - hours and "a min
Utes.
The Hoosier Captain T B. Baldwin pilot,
travelled 80 miles landing at Greenbrier, Tenn.
Ths Cleveland. a H. Morgan. Of Cleveland.
pilot landed at Columbus, Ind, forty miles.
Time , hours and 55 minutes
In the handicap race the Indianapolis just
cleared the Kentucky Tennessee line and land
ed al Westmoreland, Tenn, forty-fvs miles
northeast Of Nashville at II O'Clock yesterday.
The Chicago landed just north Of the state line
- the fair grounds at Scottsviue. Ky, sixteen
miles north OF Westmoreland, while the Ohio.
re third contestant in the handicap race, land
- hs!f mile northeast Of Nashville. Ind. 4t
SIC Saturday night
The indianapolis. Dr Goethe Link pilot aud
! p Irwin assistant, by its flight won the cup
offered for the greatest distance by the Ind
annapolis Merchants Association having ap-
proxiruately sixteen miles the better OF the
Ohio. and she also won the Fisher trophy for
timt in the air, having margin OF almost two
hours on the Chicago.
The victory of the Indianapolis men and their
4Affo cubic feet capacity balloon is considered
remarkable inasmuch as they are in the
| game and started on their flight with only FIVE
\ rags of sand. approximately 80 pounds OF
ballast They we're provisioned light They
made - miles and were in the air nineteen
hours
A message from them says their highest alti-
tude Nas 1900 approximately two and
they vent over Kentucky The weather they
report perfect and -he night trip
pleasant
coriuth, Mss June THE balloon New York.
Win = Holland Forbes pilot and Clifford p
Harmon landed two and a half miles from here
81 $40 o'clock to-day having been in the air
since about O'Clock Saturday evening. Mr.
Harmon gave the following account Of his trip:
orls. Incident 70 mar our trim occurred
about 10 O'Clock Sunday night, were pass
lnE over the centre OF Morgan County. Ala. EX-
pecting u land in the wilds Of Canada, we were
leaded with guns ammunition heavy shoes and
clothirg. and canned goods in an endeavor 10
md another air current to carry US higher We
decided - throw away three hundred pounds Of
this stuff Not wishing that il should be lost
= the fields. r-e descended to within nine hun
drsd feet If the Garth and began distributing it
shsre II v-oDla b found-near houses and vii
kges
T-hen directly over very small village,
.ghty miles north Of Birmingham and in the
centre Of Morgan County. a man with a rife
Cried Come down here. you, or l viii
bring YOU down
We continued our course. and he fred three
trass, one Of the bullets singing through the
basket Officers have been sent out from Cor
nth IN an endeavor to arrest the man
We had plenty Of ballast and could have
stayed IN the air longer but were turning north
and could find no southern current We got as
,sr south Birmingham when fhe Wlnn
changed. We would have stayed up much longer
out for that We Coey descending as We
were crossing the Kentucky line"
hesErs Forbes and Harmon left Corinth to-
Gay for New York.
The following telegram received from CoTnth.
Aass- by The Tribune yesterday:
Landed in Corinth Miss. at s:l2, central timo.
'nis morning. Travelled about four hundred miles
thirry-hve hours and ten minutes in air Crossed
Indiana, Kentucky. Tennessee and Alabama Was
making for Mobile. but the wind changed in the
night the south and forced to land here with
.Sisny Of ballast A HOLLAND FORBES"
PlAks FLIGHT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Chicago, June with the northeast trade
siacs BY which Columbus figured out his route Il
'ae discovery cf America. Joseph Brucker, formei
eoltor CT The Stats Zeitung'' and commissions
70 Germany from the St Louis worlds fair say
y all attempt to tho Atlantic Ocean IN Al
trsrip or dirigfhle balloon some time next sprlns
viii spend most of the winter IN building ms
e1thip' said Brucker TO-DAY, and in the spring
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