Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-11-04
AIR RECORD BROKEN
BY TWO AERONAUTs
Details Of The Flight by H2~.
ley and Post

Hawley and Post, of the Ame
II, are safe; not only that, but Tic
have broken the worlds record for Ca.
tance travelled in a balloon. A d.5-
patch announcing the safety of the bal-
loonists, of whom no certain news had
been heard since the start on Oct. II,
was received at the Aero club Wedres-
day afternoon. 1t was signed by Haw-
ley and Post, and read:
"St. Ambrose, Sagueny, Quebec,
Oct 26.-Landed near Peribonka river.
north of Lake Chilogoma, on nine
teenth. All well; returning"
A dispatch received in New York
from Montreal, Quebec, dated Oct. 27,
says: "Hawley and Post. the Ameri~
ca II aeronauts, arrived at 10 o'clock
last night at -Chicoutimi They were
in the air forty-six hours in all, and
travelled approximately 1,450 miles.
They landed on Wednesday of last
week at Lake Dane Defallen, five miles
east of Lake Petsgammo. They have
left the balloon behind them in good
condition. They had to sleep out in
the cold night air three nights. Mr..
Post, in describing the trip, said that
while they had to husband their
strength their hardships were incon-
siderable. After four days tramping
through the brush they came upon a
trapper's hut and were received hos
pitably."
When the excitement had cooled
down bit the thoughts of every one
at the Aero club turned to the ques-
tion, did they beat the Dusseldorf
I?" Samuel F. Perkins, who with
Pilot Hans Gericke manned the Dus-
seldorf II, led the rush for the chart
room. 1t took some time to figure the
thing out, but the club experts finally
decided that the America II had landed
about rs miles ahead of the Dusseldorf
II, and that the race and worlds rec
ord was theirs.
The Dusseldorf II came to earth
near Kiskisink, Quebec, which is es-
timated to be about 1850 miles from
the starting point and was the worlds
record until the America II reported.
If the Aero club experts figured the
thing right, the America IFS flight was
1926 miles in an air line from St.
Louis. Later advices received at St.
Louis from Lswis Spindler, of the st.
Louis Aero club, who was in charge Of
the search for Hawley and Post in On
tario, gives the America IFS landing
place as about 120 miles northeast Of
Coocooche, Quebec" Mr.. Spdinler's
dispatch says that CoOcooche, which
is the point at which the Germania
landed last Wednesday, is 1,185 miles
from st. Louis in an air line, and that
Hawley and Posts distance is figured
by him as 1906 miles from the start
ing point 1t doesn't matter whether
it is 1905 or 1925, either distance is
the worlds record, which before this
race had been set at 1,193 miles by
Count Henry De La Vaulx in a flight
from Vincennes, France, to KorOsti-
chev, Russia, in 1900.
While the official announcement will
not be made for some time. the figur-
ing of the Aero club people and the
contestants themselves, places the
leading balloons in the following or
der: America II, ID; DusselaArf II,
(2); Germania, (3).
The telegram sent from st. Am
broise by Hawley and Post shows that
they came to earth on the same day
that the Dusseldorf landed and that
the difficulties of travel were so great
that it took them whole week to get
back to the end of a telegraph wire.
st. Ambrose is not big enough to get
on the map but it is about forty miles
north of Chicoutimi, where the Cague-
nay river steamers make their last
stop northward bound. How many of
those seven days were spent in an un-
aided struggle with the wilderness
cannot be known until Hawley and his
companion send details.