The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-06-10
BALLOON IN LONG
RACE IS SAILING
TO MEXICAN GULF
ST. LOUIS Ill, ONLY GAS BAG LEI
IN INDIANAPOLIS CONTEST,
MAKES LONG TRIP.
ONE DROPS FOR FRESH WATER
Descends to Earth, Draws UP Buckets
and Then Mounts to Higher
Air Currents.
OTHERS MAKE LANDING IN SOUTH.
BULLETIN.

BuLLE LIN.
ST. LOUIS. Mo, June THE bal
loon ST. Louis Ill, landed at heIso
Tenn, according TO private messages re-
Ceived here today.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. June All
but one of the balloons that started III
the Aero club of America great nation
al race here Saturday have been hearo
from. Tn. ST. Louis Ill. is supposed to
be sailing toward the Gulf of Mexico
The New York. with \. Holland Forbes
pilot, came down at Corlnth, Miss, AT
$40 today, and the Huosler, capt. - -
Baldwin, pilot, landed at Greenbrlef'
Tenn. No details regarding the LANDING
of either have been received
The Indiana, Carl Fisher OF lnulah'
apoHs, pilot and {. \. Bumbaugh, as
sistant. came near enough to ground at
Schackle Island, Tenn.o ut u SUNDAY
night to let down two buckets and get Il
fresh supply of water. They then hgni'
ened ballast and mounted again TO the
higher currents to continue the race.
Schackle Island is twelve miles north OF
Nashville.
Two Drop Out of Race.
The Cleveland, \. H. Morgan and the
University City, j. ). Berry OF st. Louis
pilot, have dropped out OF the race. Inc
Cleveland landed eight miles west OF
Columbus, Ind, s o'clock Saturday
night making but little over forty miles
and attributing the shortness of the
flight to poor gas. The University City
landed near Fayetteville, Lincoln county
Tenn. at I Sunday night after being
up BOA hours and making approximately
$40 miles.
Dr. Goethe Link. pilot and r. j. IT.
A,fiy, ha nd n a
won both the trophies in the great handi'
cap race which started at $40 Saturday
afternoon, just preceding the national
race.
Lands in Fair Grounds.
The Chicago landed Just north of the
state line, mt the fair grounds at SCOTS
Vile. Ky, sixteen miles north OF Vest
moreland. while the Ohio, the third con
tcstant in the handicap race. landed a
half mile northeast of Nashville, Ind,
nj 6:2O Saturday night.
The indianapolis Won the merchants
cup for greatest distance, having APP
proximately sixteen miles the best of
the Chic. The Indianapolis also won
the Fisher trophy for time in the air,
having a margin of almost two hours on
the Chicago.
The victory Of the indianapolis men
and their 10000 cubic feet balloon, Is
NNllSlitItu Itillul kttbl'r i'"Hlllh'H a. ~. :.
are new in the game and started with
but five bags of sand, or approximately
30 pounds Of ballast. They were pro
visioned very light. They made pa
miles and were in the air nineteen hours
\ message from them says their high
est altitude was 1900 feet. They were
shot at twice as they went over Ken
lucky, but were not hit. The weather
they report, was perfect and the night
trip very pleasant.
A. H. Morgan, pilot and j. n. Wade
.Jr.. assistant of the Cleveland, returned
10 Indianapolis today. They were much
displeased over the showing made by
their balloon aud while the manufactures
Of the craft charged the failure of the
flight to Il poor quality of gas given that
balloon and the Ohio, the two Cleveland
men were attributing failure to defective
seams. They soon discovered, they said
after getting off that something Was
wrong In fact before they started they
could only get away with sixteen bags OF
sand. though the bag should carry up
wards of forty.
Drop Their Provisions.
The balloon after attaining Il height
of 10000 feet and going twenty or thlr'
ty miles began to spend force rapidly
They dropped over her sides not only al
the sand they had. but also canteens
provisions and overcoats. But the flight
was doomed and they finally came down
in piowed field eight miles west of Co