Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-29
HAWLEY AND POST, WHO HAVE
BEEN FIGHTING WAY BACK TO
CIVILIZATION FOR WEEK,
BROKE ALL BALLOON RECORDS.
SUFFERED HARDSHIPS.
ON THEIR AERIAL TRIP

mine ARDuoUs DAYS AND NIGHTS
ENDED WITH THEIR. SAFE RE
| TURN; NEW YORK PLANS Z
/ RoUslNG WELCOME.
New York. Oct. IA grand
welcome home is being planned
today for Hawley and Post, the
! balIoonists who broke all records
| in the America II, when sthey
arrive here Monday or Tuesday
! next. It is.planned to make It
the largest demonstration Of the
| kind ever held In this country.
! Chicoutima, Quebec, Oct. 27.-Alan
/ Hawley and Augustus Post, the new
holders Of the worlds balloon cham.
i pionship, showed little i'll effects to.
day from the thrilling experiences
which have been theirs since they left
st. Louis nine days ago in the
America II.
"Tell our friends we are well and
very very happy" was the message
they sent from their room. They
reached here 10 o'clock last night and
retired shortly before midnight as
soon after their arrival as they could
get away from the opportunities of
the crowd of welcoming and congrat.
ulating citizens. They had driven
forty miles over a rough country from
st. Ambrose since early afternoon and
were tired to the bone" as one OF
them expressed it.
Suffered Hardships on Trip.
Every one Of the nine days since
they has started had been spent
arduously. Four nights had been
passed out Of doors. with the hard
ground for bed and their army
blankets for cover.
Their balloon, the America II. is
still at Lake DuBanc l.jeSable, this be-
ing the title Of the township where
they landed 1t is believed that
Joseph Pednaud and Joseph Simard,
the trappers who brought the balloon
lists in q bark canoe TO st. Ambrose
will go back ard see what can be done
to get the big bag from its cache on
the mountain side to the railroad here.
In Air Forty-Six Hours.
Hawley and Post landed about forty
six hours after their departure from
st. Louis. The balloon basket touched
earth at 1885 o'clock on the afternoon
of Oct. 10. They probably flew In all
sixteen hundred miles. although the
direct distance between the two points
on which the international race is de
cided, is only 1855 miles. This
would make their average rate OF
progress 35 miles an hour. Leaving
here this morning the aeronauts will
reach Quebec about 6 O'Clock this
evening.
St. Louis Hears Of Their Return.
st. Louis, Oct. 27.-Alan r. Hawley
and Justus Post are safe and America
II is the winner Of the international
balloon race.
Somewhere in the wilds of the dis
trict Of Quebec the aeronants are
vending their way from the city of St
Ambrose to the east, down the Sague'
nay river.
According to advices received here,
Messrs. Hawley and Post left st. Am.
broise at o'clock yesterday afternoon
to drive to Chicoutimi. 1t was said, that
they expected to cover the distance IN
about six hours and that their inten.
ton was to go to Quebec today.
This is the substance Of telegram
received by Aero club officials here last
night from Lewis Spindler, one OF
three st. Louisans who went to Canada
to Join in the search for the balloon
lists.
Believe 5000 Miles Travelled.
The Hight of America II wins the
James Gordon Bennett cup and estab-
fishes a new worlds record. AS the
crow flies. Hawley and Post landed
lust 1920 miles from st. Louis. The
route taken by the, trophy winning bal
loon is believed to have covered nearly
5000 miles.
The telegram from Spindler last
night prior to later message from
Alan Hawley, was the first word re-
ceived from the balloonists since they
crossed Michigan Tuesday, the day
following their departure from St.
Louis in the epoch making race.
According to message from Hawley
they landed safely at Saguenay county
on the Peribonka river, in the district
of Quebec, "Wednesday, Oct. 10, after
flight of three nights and nearly two
days. They fell on the outskirts of a
forest skirting Lake Chilogana. fifty
miles north of Chicoutimi.
The descent was made without the
slightest mishap. but with carpet of
snow as far rs the eye could see. But
the. aeronauts had made every prepar.
alton to withstand the Canadian snow
storms and their freezing blasts. Heavy
corduroy suits over heavy underwear
and q heavy fur lined overcoat over all
made the weather serene.
Seven Days In Wilderness.
The overland trip to st. Ambrose,
Saguenay county. which was made on
foot. consumed seven days. Whether
they encountered mishaps on the way
the messages from the north 10 not
state. bnt the<t tenor of the dispatches
received from the balloonists W mem