The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-11-03
AERONAUTS SAFE
AND POST ON WAY
HOME, HAVING TRAVELLED
1850 MILES.
A new WORLDS RECORD
Landed on Mountain North of Chicou.
timi.-Had Long Tramp, But
Suffered no Very Severe
Hardships.

y hId II. NA~y
and Augustus Post, the aeronauts OF
the balloon America III, for whom
search had been prosecuted in the
Canadian wilds, are safe and have
established a new worlds record for
sustained flight. They travelled ap,
proximately 1850 miles and came to
earth in Chicoutimi county, Quebec, on
Wednesday fast.
Two messages from Hawley and
Post were received in New York. One
was TO William Hawley, brother of the
aeronaut, the other TO Samuel F. Per-
kins, pilot of the balloon Dusseldorf II,
which had been considered the winner.
The message to Mr.. HawIey read:
Landed in wilderness week e 50
miles north of Chicoutimi. Both well.
Alan"
The Perkins message ran:
LANDED Paribonka river. North
Lake Chilogana nineteenth. All well;
returning.
"Hawley, Post"
With receipt of the news there end.
ed a search which had come to be re-
sarded as almost hopeless, and in
which the governments of this country
and Canada we're indirectly participant
nag.
Clifford B. Harmon. the wealthy
amateur aeronaut and aviator of New
York had offered 81, 900 to any one
finding Hawley and Post, dead or
alive, and this sum had been increased
by subscription to more than S 1000.
At the international aviation meet at
Belmont Park nearly So, 900 was SUBJ
scribed among the aviators, headed
by $500 by Glenn II. Curtiss.
The new record established by Haw-
ley and Post, unofficially estimated at
1850 miles, exceeds all previous
lights. Only this year Count Odensoff
Of Russia claimed to have flown 1924
miles in 40 hours, but the figures we're
not officially verified. If the estimat-
ID distances are made official, the long
standing record of Count de la Vaux
Of 1888 miles made in 1900 in a flight
from France TO Siberia, has been brok-
en- by at least three of the contestants
n the race-the America |, the Dus.
seldorf ii, and the Germania. The Of
hcial figures will be required, however,
10 settle the question.
Tell Story Of Tramp.
~Chicoutimi, Oct. q. - Thoroughly
fatigued and showing plentiful marks
Of an arduous week of struggling
through the dense wilderness of north
ern Canada, Messrs. HawIey and Post.
arrived here.
They had landed at 3:45 Wednesday
afternoon, Oct. 10, 1900 feet up on the
of an unnamed mountain. which
as near as they could reckon, lies
% miles north of Chicoutimi.
They had been involved in a snow
storm which was accompanied by a
change in the wind to a more north
erly direction from that which up until
then babe fair to carry them to the
Labrador coast.
The adverse conditions compelled
them TO land, much against their
Landing was effected easily
and the balloon was left in good con-
dition. They were uncomfortable hear !
end of their provisions, but re-
counting the story of their experiences
they made light Of that feature. They
had confidence, they said, in their
ability to kill sufficient game to pre-
vent starvation.
Fol- three nights they we're obliged
10 sleep in the open air. 1t was a stiff
fight through snowy forests. The
weather was exceedingly cold. Then
camp of a trapper was struck on
me river Alours, A days rest was en-.
there in the deserted hut. Mon.
day five trappers appeared and took
mem down the streams in their canoes
to st. Ambrose, a little settlement 40
from here. A six hours drive
brought them here.