The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-27
Message Are Received
From Aeronauts
HaWley and Post.
WORLDS RECORD
is ESTA ISHED.
New York Airnen Travel 1850
Miles in Their Balloon, Ameri-
ca IL, Landing ii, Chicoutimi
County Quebec Vast
Search for Them Was
Under Way.

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New York, October :e.-Alnn II. Hau-
ley and Augustus Post, the neronauts
of the balloon America H., Tor whom
search had been prosecuted In the Gu
madam wilds, nrc safe and have estnb-
1ished new worlds record for sus-
tnined flight. They Travelled approxi-
1nately $50 miles and came to earth
In Chicoutinh county, Quebec, on We'd
nesdny last, but were not heard from,
4 until to-day, when telegrnms sent from,
81. Ambroise, Quebec, reached New
York.
he balioonists started from st. Louis
with nine other contestants in the I'm
ternattonal contest on Monday, Gcto-.
Der All the other balloons have
been reported
MessaEes Received.
Two messages from Hawley and Post
were received In New York early to-
night One was to William Hawley,
Samuel f. Perkins. pilot OF the balloon
Dusseldorf H.. which, until tonight,
had been considered the winner. The
message to Mr.. Hawley read:
LANDED In wilderness week ago.
nifty miles north of chicoutimi Both
well. ALAN"
The Perkins message ran:
LANDED Paribonka River. north OF
Lake Chilogana, 18th. Ali we'll: re-
turning. 'HAWLEY. POST
With receipt of the news there ended
search which had come to be regard
ed by many as almost hopeless and In
which the governments of this coun-
+ try and Canada were indirectly partic-
i ipating. For. In addition to enissaries
tent by the Aero Club OF st. Louis, the
Aero Club OF America and by william
z sliawley the United dStatessreyenue cut
zisssse service and siznal corps Of the
army. the Hudson Bay Company ana
& other agents were conducting the
{ search, searching the Great Lakes and
making preparations for entering the
almost tmpenetrable Canadian forests.
clifford B. Harmon, the wealthy. ANA :
teur aeronaut and aviator OF New York
had offered $1,000 to any one fndinK
Hawley and Post, dead or alive, and
this sum had been Increased tonight
by subscriptions TO more than $4,000.
AZ the International aviation meet at
Belmont Park nearly $4,000 was SUBJ
scribed among the aviators this after
noon. headed By $500 pledged by Glenn
ii. Curtiss.
Young Perkins, who accompanied
Lieutenant Hans Gericke in the Dussel-t
X dorf. conceded immediately he received
the telegram from Hawley and Post
that he and the German had lost first
+ place to the New Workers. Perkins
had estimated the distance travelled by
the Dusseldorf at 1,o40 miles. He was
! oNerjoyed at hearing from his loag-lost
rivals, and quickly dispatched to St.
Ambroise. with Instructions 10 forward.
this message OF congratulations to
q Me ssrs. Hawley2 and Post:
indications are that you have bro
Ken the worlds record for sustained
flight In balloon Please accept my
! $htncerest congratulations on your sue
cess. You are the only ones i would
be glad to see win outside myself. I
J: know know from my own experience what
you must have risked to make such a
trip" 4
Shouts With ElntIon.
3s2s William Hawley shouted with elation8
when he heard OF his brothers success
and safety. For8the past week he had
been under a constant strain and had
4 been in hourly Communication with
points in Canada from which he hoped,
ssto receive news OF the landing. Asthc
& outlook grew less hopeful day by: day.
4 his anxiety became greater, but through
- all he did not lose faith In his bro
Tiers ability to come through alive
He had sent j. II. Pope and Edmund
Y aStratton to Ottawa to carry on the
search. but5she notified them tonight
OF the happy ending. .8 s
siss The America II. was last reported
passing over Maple City. NIich3s October
Is Sky-gszersa We're able to read the q
name OF tile balloon. but thereafter all
trace of her was lost. Various prophe-3
I 8cies5 OF the outcome We're made. but the 4
main contention was that the saeronauts
had landed In an inaccessible region
early las wee ek, as In u fact theysSdid,
i and We're unable to ma Ike their way to 4
civilization. Those who took the
\ 8sloomie r vi ew w ere Inclined to think as
y the days passed that the men had per-
Z ished from cold and hui ger. The out
look was made darker by he ugges-
8tton Of drowning, "a fate thought not
1 Sunli Y. Kelly by the Hndiig Of "a balloon
basket on the shofes Of Lake Superior,
lear Port Arthur, NJ CHI, IN to day. But
7 that Btlle basket was n OF the Americas s
was was concluslvelys shown by the later
S,i i3 Az
M Doubt OF Success III.
st. Louis, Mo-, October 26,-A.s 3.
Lambert, president, a nd Il ID. p ozier, Of
st. sLo uis, embers q T the einternattonalll
8balloon race committee, announced to-
night that there WAS no question that |
Alan Hawley 4 and Il All glstus @ II
had Won the . ames Gordon Bennett
cup and the cash prt zes for istance.
555s Mt, Lambert was inf Formed by the |
Assoc tied Press Of tt he ga afety Of II IaW-
ley and Post. and said he wa ss pleased
that hey had stained the internation-
al ba loon race 70 I America mex year
II; II; y am certain that the War Depart
5ment figures RI Aha9 flirnf n M cnn1-s