The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-25
LAST SEEN ON TUESDAY
hbe Last Heard From the Gas Bag
Was When 1t Was Seen Ia
Michigan a Week
Ago.

&e10Tt is De1Qg Hlduo ny a. D. Lair
#bert, president Of the Aero club OF st.
to trace the course of the
!Rmlssing balloon, America H., believ-
ling that is the only sensible way to
Elocate the whereabouts Of its crew.
Alan R. Hawley and Augustus Post,
8who left ST. Louis In the internation-
race. week ago Monday.
H Already the course of the balloon
\ has been tracked as far as Traverse
H Bay. Mich, where 1t is reported the
America II. took an easterly course
at an altitude of 1900 feet on Tues
day last 1t is not believed, however,
that this direction was maintained
d long, but that the balloon went lower,
continued north, and is now probably
N somewhere east of Hudson Bay, north
q Of st. Johns Lake, and possibly as
n far south as James Bay, the lower
portion of Hudson Bay.
B With this in view, Lewis Spindler,
q representative of the Aero club, was
q sent last night from Toronto to
q Chapleau, ontario, where an operating
base will be established this morn
y ing. Chapleau is junction Of the
a Canadian Pacific railroad, which road
a is taking part in the search for the
81 balloon, and has instructed all of it's
y employees to report when and where
ID they last saw it.
81 BY obtaining the reports of en-
81 ployes of the railroad and all possible
n information from hunters in the en-
Il ploy of the Hudson Bay company, as
well as from the Canadian police when
n and where they last saw what they
4 are certain was the America H., 1T
will be able to trace the balloon for
large part of its course and pos
1 sbly to locate Its landing place.
Mr.. Lambert talked with William
Hawley in New York, brother OF the
aeronaut, for three-quarters of an
hour over the long distance tele-
phone yesterday afternoon. The
brother was anxious to have all pos
sible information, and called up Mr.
Lambert for the purpose. Mr. Haw
ley said that representative of his
had left for the Canadian district
but did not know from what point he
would operate.
A letter addressed to Mr.. Hawley
Yesterday from farmer was opened
and showed that the America II ha6
passed Delavan, Mich, Tuesday morn
Ing. A message received from j. w
Hannah. Traverse City, Mich, las
night reported additional information
as to the course of the balloon.
The message stated that balloon
declared to be the America II. wal
observed in many places in the Trav
erse Bay section Tuesday, Octobe
IL, and was near enough the grount
Tor conversation. 1t was sighted a
4:40 p. m. at Lake Ann, at 5 p. m. a
Cedar, ten miles west of Travers'
City, and at $40 passed over Omena
Mich. A few minutes later the bal
loon was seen at Northport, Mich
sailing northeast. Soon after it ros
to an altitude of 5000 feet and chang
ed Its course to due east disappearing
at p. M, four miles from the Ok
Mission resort. People at the poin
Of the peninsula saw lights In tn
balloon as it passed there.
The belief grows hourly that thu
missing air craft dropped into LAX
huron or is lost in the wilderness
Edgar Stratton is in charge of tn
main relief expedition and has is
sued call for assistance. The gov
eminent of Canada is cooperating
with him. He plans to get all the da
Ia possible about all balloons whic
nave been sighted and run ther
down. He expects to have some def
mite information within twenty-fou
hours.
OTTAWA, Ont. Oct. 25.-This cit
Is today the base of number of e1
pedltions that have set out in scare
Vi the missing balloon America II an
the pilot Hawley and aide Post. 1t j
now eight days since the balloon lei
81. Louis. 1t is considered signit
cant that not one definite clue as t
.he whereabouts of the balloon ha
been rano;uzl