Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-07
BENNETT CUP
CAPTURED BY
AMERICAN
EDGAR NIX 0UTSAILS
EUROPEAN AER0NAUTS
Covers Nearly Seven Hundred
Miles From Zurich, Switzer-
land to Heart of Forest North
of Warsaw, Russia. :,

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! Try Morning Journal Special Lsased W'ret
! Zurich, switzerland, oct 6.--Al
Zurich tonight toasted America and
her champion balloonist, Edgar W.
| Min. who after a remarkable ana dra
matte struggle against wind and
rain storms has calrted off first hon
ors in the International balloon race
for the Gordon Bennett cup by sail
ing from Zurich TO the heart of The
forest north of Warsaw in Russian
| Poland II is calculated that Mix
covered distance Of between 1,045
f64Sg4 miles) and 1.1t2 kilomcters
! t695.63 milcsl.
Alfred Leblanc, The French pilot, Is
| placed second. with distance OF ss4
kiometers (5t7Sl milcsl; Captain
Messner, one of the Swiss pilots.
| third, with sac kiometers H96.So
miles) and Colonel schaeck another
Swiss entry fourth.
While there is disappointment felt
because of the failure OF the Swiss
| pilots to repeat last years victory, the
general sentiment IS one of satisfae-
| ton tEat America has taken the
| prigc Experts ia aeronautics arc
filled with admiration for Mix's
achievement. pointing out that the
storms which drove the more expert
rncod balluonists to earth could not
conquer the American
| Nh Mix landed north OF Warsaw, in
| Russian Poland. at o'clock Tuesday
! morning. he has won with plenty Of
| timo To spare from Alfred Leblanc.
| the trench pilot, his companion in
the st Louis race of 1907, who came
down at kubin Hungary Monday af-
! ternoon
The hrst news ~ Mixs landing was
contained in a personal dispatch u
| tn Associated Press dated ostrolen-
| In. The aoronuut said
II landed in the midst of a large
! pine tree in the forest Of Gutovn.
west of Ostrolenk and north of War
| saw at o'clock Tuesday morning
encountered a heavy rain. NY ballast
VAS exhausted when ! came down. At
present / am in the hands of the po-
lice but All is going well.
IL had bad weather Sunday night
II was cloudy and rain fen and | used
half my ballast before morning The
weather was 50 thick thai il was i'm
possible to locate my position except
for one hour south of Prague, when
a star observation / took showed my
position nt latitude 5t.45 and longi-
nde l0.3S"
Mix made his journey through fog
and binding rain storms which COM
PEELED all the other pilots to descend.
After crossing the Swiss and Aus
triau Alps, Captain Messner. one Of
the SWiss pilots. reported that his
clothes were covered with ice to "a
thickness of half an inch Messner
reached an altitude Of $4,000 feet or
the division Of balloons which were
carried more to the southward Le-
blame reached the farthermost point.
He descended in the foothills of the
Carpathian mountains being forced 10
abandon his balloon on account of an
accident upon landing,
Leblanc covered Il distance esti-
mated at l.0l5 Kilometres (630.01
miles, Mcssner's distance was about
the same as Leblanc's. and Colonel
schaeck. a Swiss cntrant covered 705
l0ilomcters C493.69 miles,. The others
covered less distance.
It Is impossible 10 explain why
Mix should have been molosted by the
Russian police. ~ in anticipation of
"a landing in Russia each OF the pilots
was provided at Zurich with special
Russian passport guaranteed by the
Russian minister to switzerland to
protect them against annoyance.
The American embassy at 81. pet
arsburg has been advised Of Mixs pre-
dicamont and asked TO take the mat
ter up at once with the Russian au-
horities
The distance from Zurich to the
point where Mix landed has been
given rs I.100 kilometers, or 6Ss.1
miles.
some of the contestants relate peri
Gus experiences.
Ellmc Duhonnete, representing
France. says he had remarkable es-
npc at the time of his descent. His
.uidc rope caught Ia the chimney of
house on mountain slope and was
orn away from the balloon. which
hot un about 1000 yards. His ball
ist was exhausted and the balloon
Ic managed To escape serious mishap.
At iltc hour the committee Is
icd an unofficial estimate OF the
istaucc covered by Mix. which II
tatcs TO ne l.l20 kilometers tabout
- mliss1. or 32o kilom"ters ass
lflesl more than Leblanc. the French
iat
\ private telegram from Mix SAYS
lee weather WAS forbidding. There
.as continuous rain and fog. lie was
y thirty-fivc hours and saw the sun
Or tn, first time as he was landing.
uesday morning.
Edgar w Mix was the only Amer
an contestant in the international
alloon race for the Gordon Bennett
up In which seventeen balloons