The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1910-10-29
AIR RECORD BROKEN
BY TWO AERONADTS
Details Of lie Flight By Hay-
ley and fost

Hawley and Pest, OF the America
II, are safe; not only hat. but they
have broken the worlds record for dis
lance travelled in a balloon. A dis
patch announcing the safety OF the bal.
loonists. Of whom no certain news had
been heard aimee the start on Oct. IL
was received az Jhe Aero club Wedros-
day Afternoon. Il was signed by Haw-
ley and Post. aud read
EST AMBROSE Sagueny. Quebec,
Oct 2G.-LanGed ear Perihonka river,
north Of Lake Chilogoma. on nine.
teenth. All well, returning"
A dispatch received in New York
from Montreal. Quebec, dated Oct. ~,
says: "Hawiey and Post, the Ameri-
ca II aeronauts. arrived at 10 o'clock
last night az Chicoutimi They were
in tae air forty-six hours in all and
travelled approximately ! $50 miles.
They landed on Wednesday OF last
week at Lake Dane Defallen. Ave miles
east OF Lake Petsgammo. They have
left the balloon behind them in good
condition. They had 10 sleep out in
the cold night air three nights. Mr..
Post, in describing the trip, said that
while they had 10 husband their
strength their hardships we're incon-
siderable. After four days tramping
through the brush they came upon a
trapper's hut and were received hos
pitably."
vEhao tha axcitanaut had caoIad
down a bit the thoughts OF every one
at the Aero club turned to the ques.
ton. did they beat the Dusseldorf
III" Samuel f, Perkins, who with
Pilot Hans Gericke manned the Dus
seldorf III. led the rush for the chart
room. IL took some time to figure the
thing out. but the club experts finally
decided that The America II had landed
about Is miles ahead OF the Dusseldorf
II, and that the race and worlds rec
ord was theirs.
The Dusseldorf III came 10 earth
near Kiskisink. Quebec. which Is es-
timated TO be about | $40 miles from
the starting point and was the worlds
record until the America ii reported.
II the Aero club experts figured the
thing right, the America IFS flight was
1875 miles in an air line from st.
Louis. Later adyices received at st.
Louis from Lewis Spindler, OF the St
Louis Aero club, who was In charge OF
the search for Hawley and Post in On
tario, gives the America lis landing
place as About 20 miles northeast OF
Coocooche. Quebec" Mr.. Spdinler's
dispatch says that Coocooche, which
is the point at which the Germania
landed last Wednesday, is 1885 miles
from ST. Louis in an air line, and that
Hawley and Posts distance is figured
by him as ,305 miles from the start
ing point. II doesn't matter whether
il Is l.305 or 1925 either distance is
the worlds record, which before this
race had been set at l,l93 miles by
Count Henry De la Vaulx in flight
from Vincennes, France, 10 Korosti
chey. Russia, in 1900.
While the official announcement will
not be made for some time. the flgur
ing OF the Aero club people and the
contestants themselves, places the
leading balloons in the following or
der: America II, III; Dusseldorf II
(2); Germania, go.
The telegram sent from st. Am
broise by Hawley and Post shows that
they came TO earth on the same day
that the Dusseldorf landed and that
the difficulties OF travel were so great
that II took them a whole week 10 get
back 10 Tie end Of telegraph wire
St AMBROSE is not big enough to get
on the map. but Il is about forty miles
north OF Chicoutimi. where the Cague.
nay river steamers make their last
stop northward bound. How many OF
those seven days were spent in an I'M
aided struggle with the wilderness
cannot he known until Hawley and his
companion send details.