The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-26
No News From Alan R. Haw-
ley and Augustus Post, Who
Went Up in Balloon America
at st. Louis a Week Ago.
CLEWS TRACED DOWN
FOUND WITHOUT BASE
Unfortunate AerOnautS Be-
jeved to Have Descended
Far From Human Habitation
in Dense Canadian Forests.
MANY SEARCHING PARTIES

y T'rANA, Ontario, Oct. 25.-The
black Businesses OF the north To-
night stiii held the secret OF the
Host hali0onists, Alan II. HaWley and
Augustus Pest of New York, and their
skyship, the America III.
Various rumOrE have reached the bu-
renu established here by EdnuRd Il.
>trutfons representing the Aero ciu5 Of
America, hut when sffted down they
produced nothing that would Indicate
the whereabouts of the aeronauts.
What appeared TO be a promising
cleW developed early in the day. when
a dispatch from Huntsville stated that
Richard Cole, a guide, and "a hunting
party had seen balloon on Thursday
20 miles north OF Disco, Ontario. This
item of news taken in connection with
the fact that all other balloons in the
contest were known 10 have come To
earth on Wednesday, inspired great
hopes that something definite TO work
ON had been obtained. Later in the day
however, 10 was learned from DIT. g.
Meyers OF Toronto, a member OF the
hunting party. that the guide was mis-
taken ga the day
Tie balloon was seen on Wednesday,
according 10 Ut. Meyers. and might.
therefore. have been either the Isle de
France or the Azurea. both of which
landed In that neighhOrhOod. The idea
that the party saw the America has
not been given entirely up. but the incis
dent lost most Of it's significance with
che chanse la date.
8 second report that a balloon had
been seen on Thursday i'm the district
Immediately north of Georgian bay
reached here late today from the pro-
Niuclal police al Toronto. The report
was sent in hE Constable McGurdy Of
Chapieau. some doubt was cast upon
THIS story. IL IS figured that the Amer
lea on Thursday would have been either
several hundred miles 10 the north or
10 thc northeast OF Chapleau-
Spindier Goes s0rtE.
Louis Spindler Of the ST. Louis Aero
CLUB who aas been gathering data from
friends in Toronto. TO-DAY advised Mr.
srratton By wire that he would leave
Tor the north tonight TO make a per-
sonal invest igatiOn OF both the Cole
and McCurdY stories.
A third report came from Quebec. but
% is regarded as the least promising.
Peter Brown. a constable Of the prOvin-
cial force, sent word that ne had seen
q balloon over Lake kipaWa on We'd
uesday. Both the Germania ana the
dusseldorf II passed through this terri
tory, and it is possible that 10 was
either OF them that Brown saw.
Opinion Is divided as TO the pOssi-
nlity OF reScuing the men II they
passed safely over Lake Huron and
Georgian bay into the vast wilderness
- northern Ontario and Quebec or the
tngave districts, sthl further north.
Professor w. ". Beck. director OF the
geological survey. who knows the cOun-
try like a book. r. OF the opinion that
Tie aeronauts VIII surely perish IL they
sailed into the far northern sections.
There are parts OF 10. he said. where
Indians ana half-breed hunters have
starved 10 death.
Other officials including Sir Wilfrid
Laurler who is taking a keen interest
in the search for the lost men, believe
hey Wil come out all right. especially
n they landed south Of the line of the
transcontinenral railway.
Except FOR a gap on ia miles near
tle border line between Quebec ana on
rario and another of the same size di-
recuy north Of Lake Superior. the en-
Pre- line is in some STAGE of cOnstrue-
uon- south Of it the woods are trav-
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