The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-25
Will Use BALLOON.
TO FIND BALLOON
Won Phul \ I'll Sail Away in
Sesrcll$ol Missing
Aeronauts.
NO .TlDlMGs r & { 9 EVE Ed
HaWley and Post Believed to- Be
Lost in Vast Wilder f
ness.
HE-

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st. Louis, Mo. October e4.--If Alan
4 r. Hawley and Augustus Post and
.Itheir balloon, America IL, are not
E3reportcd by Wednesday morning, s,
Louis Won Phul, as the representa-
Tive of the Aero Club. of st. Louis.
will attempt TO hnd them witfsstha
I. balloon st. Louis III, twas announced
4. .to-night. 4.
i This plan was decided upon at a
meeting of the board of governors
!, of the Aero Club. of st. Louis, to-
4 night Won Phul Will take with him
/! j., NJ. O'Reilly. his aideisin the inter-
national race. which started from St.
\ Louis week ago to-day, and go to
5Isault Ste. Marie, where the balloon
will be inflated and sent North into
Isthat part of Canada where Hawleyt
and Post are now supposed to be,
The rescue party will TIA Ike along a
months provisions and a light coll
.Ilapsible canoe, sSji
The Aero Club. officers are now
working on the theory that Hawley
Land PostYare to be found in the coun-
north Of Lake Superior region.
try contiguous to James Bay, and
4 Organized Search.
! >
Y gnnizcd effort 10 locate Alan r aMle. !.
land Augustus Post crew OF the MISS
ling bal loon; ;AmerIcall., was inaugurat-
1ed here to-night when Edmund ~
: #Stratton, o New: y York u member OF
1.-The Aero Club Of America, arrived and
atNonce opened a bureau to conduct in-
,quiries throughout Eastern Canada, In
l!some part OF Which the unreported
Iiareostats s believed to have taken
ground. X Il
propose 20 conduct as comprehen-
$isiYc and thorough inquiry as can be
teApedl ltiousls made, ,'' said Mr. Stratton,
''and as soon a the driftot the Ameri-
{5ca# Is ascertained, Twill send out a
yell-equlppe1 search and relief party
I.fromE the nearest aVaila Bile point. Other
l.eNpedl tions forSmore extensive eNplora-
htlon thenBSvill be dispatched from sew
Ecral$ points,
Otter and Chnpleau Ont, have been
tdestgnatedgas TWO OF the bases OF opera
l3tions. and theI Q will be at least one In
/ / Eastern @ uebec. All Will DO directed
from the u headquarters In this city,
What 4 propose to do In Ottawa now
lis To- compile a route map and III pos
i &sihleS Saes tabllsh the definite drift OF
the missing bal loon,,''.s i
To-night marked the end OF a week
since the big balloon faded from he
sight Of those who cheered at St Louis
$theSdeparting contestants in the inter-
4 national alloon race, -Four days ago,
the latest,R is estimated. the gas
which 5buoyedS the balloon in prevailing
snortheast inds must have lost Its po-
Stency,8 From What spot the sky @tray-
elers may have been endeavoring to
EhghtMtheir wa to civil izatton since
that time.8 orr sat what isolated haven.
with friendly Indians, woodsmenf or
&trappers, they may be awaiting sucGor.
are problems now engaging attention
@of3eXpertss summoned here by Mr., STRAIT
ton ;s 5sj5 & 8ia li
The zpossibility that the missing 8 aero-
\ nauts may have lien into one II The
Great La kos ore ven pas assed beyond the
A Province or Que bee 10 he a Atlantic and
been lost Is realized