Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-29

bers of the st. Louis Aero club to b,
lieve the trip was pleasant. save TO
the snow, which limited the walkin
to the tortoise speed.
I Albert Bond Lambert. president .
the Aero club OF ST. Louis, was over
! joyed to learn of the safetySof the tw,
men. The report received in st. Loui
in the afternoon that balloon basket
supposedly that Of America II, hat
been found on the banks OF Lake Su
perior,, cast gloom over aero enthusi
asts in this city.
According to Mr--Lambert, Americs
II travelled northeast from ST. Louis I'm
til after it had passed Lake Michigan
Messages received from Hawley were
written just as the balloon was clear
ling the lake. After brief trip in q
northerly direction; through Canada
Mr.. Lambert believes the balloon was
caught in an eastern air current and
carried in triangular direction. This
belief is based on the location where
the balloon landed.
Breaks World Record.
The Hawley-Post voyage breaks the
record held by Count VII de La Vaulx,
whosflew from Paris to Russian Siberia,
outdistancing the trip made by DR..
John Wise. from st. Louis to Maine.
Hawley and Post evidently travelled
more than two hundred miles farther
than Gerricke and Perkins in the Dus-
seldorf, according to the count made
by Mr. Lambert.
Hawley and Post left St. Ambrose
late yesterday afternoon from Chi
coutim, and are expected to travel to
New York by way of Montreal Chi
moutimi is less than forty miles from
st. AMBROSE, where the aeronauts
sent their first message since they
landed. Chicoutimi is 227 miles from
Quebec by rail and more than IT'S
miles by air. Officials of the Aero
club are claiming the prize for Haw-
ley by about $50 miles. This estimate
is made. from measurements of maps.
New York Gets Messages.
New York. Oct. 27.-Given up for
dead, with the officials of two govern
ments directing an International search
of the interminable Businesses of the
Canadian forests for Their bodies, aided
by thousands of Mines trappers and
Indians. Allan R. ;sIawley \ and
Post, the jaeronauts of the
long missing balloon America II,
the country early last might
by their own announcement Of their
safety.
That they have endured great hard
ships Is indicated by the terse state
ment that they had landed near Peri
bouka, Chicoutimi county, Quebec, last
Wednesday. They we're therefore just
one week struggling to get back into
civilization.
Coupled with the announcement of
their safety, in which the whole civil
lied world has become Interested, is
the declaration that they have broken
the worlds record for sustained fight.
approximately 1850 miles.
The balloonists started from St.
Louis with nine other contestants in
the international contest on Monday,
Oct II. All the other balloons have
been reported. Hope for the missing
balloonists had been practically aban-
doned when, with startling sudden
ness, came two messages from the
supposed dead men. q
Terse Messages Bring Joy.
Z One was to William tHawley, brother
Of the aeronaut; the other to- Samuel
F. Perkins, pilot of the balloon Dussel-
dorf H.. which until last night had
been, considered the winner. The mes
sage to ,ir. Hawley read
Landed in wilderness week ago.,
fifty miles north of Chicoutimi. Both
we'll. Alan
The, Perkins message read: Land
ed Paribonka river, north Lake
Chilogana, 18th. ALI well; returning.
.Hawley, POST
5 With receipt of the news there ended
a search which had come to be re-
garded by many as almost hopeless
and in which the governments of this
country and Canada were indirectly
For, in addition to emissaries sent
by the Aero club OF st. Louis. the
Aero Club Of America and by William
Hawley. the United States revenue
cutter service, the signal corps Of the
army, the Hudson Bay company and
other agents were conducting the
search, securing the great lakes aud
making preparations for entering the
almost impenetrable Canadian forests.
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