The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-27
Hawley and Post of the America
II. Landed i'm Canadian
Wilderness Week Ago.
BROKE WORLDS RECORD
FOR SUSTAINED FLIGHT
Messages That Reach New York
Put End to Long, Despair
ing Search.

NEW YORK, Oct. 26,--Alan Il. Hawlcy
balloon America H., for whom search had
been prosecuted in the Canadian Hilds
are safe and have established a new
worlds record for sustained flight. They
Travelled approximately 1850 miles and
came to earth in Chcoutimi county, Que
bee, on Wednesday. October 10, but were
not heard from until today, when tele-
grams sent from ST. Ambroise, Quebec
reached New York.
The balloon started from St Louis with
vine otner contestants In the intcrnat,on-
al contest on Monday. October IL All
the other balloons have been reported.
Good News Confirmed,
Two messages from Hawley and Post
were received in New York carly to-
night. One was 10 William Hawlcv
brother of the aeronaut: the other To-
Samuel +. Perkins. pilot of the balloon
ptusseldorI tna,S H. which until tonight had
sage TO Mr.. fawley read.
Landed in wilderness week ago. nfty
miles north Of Chicoutimi. Both we'll
The Perkins message ran:
re-, landed paribonka river, north Lake
ChiloSana,, nlneteen,h. All well Return
inE,-Hawley Post"
Wlth receipt Of the news there ended
a search which had come 10 be regarded
by many as almost hopeless and in which
INC aIo sovernlncnt OF this country and Can
aoa were indirectly participating. For
instance in addition 10 emlssarics sent
oS the Aero Club OF St Louis lhe Aero
Gllio OF America. and by William Hawley,
inc United States revenue cutter service
thc signal corps Of the army the Hudson
Fay, company and other agents wcrs uon-
quoting the search, securing the Great
LAKES and making preparations for enter
forests
Can Save Reward Now.
Clifford 3. Harmon. the wealthy anna,
teur aviator and acronaut OF New York.
had offered $1,000 to amy one finding
iaawiey ,, ana Post, dead OF alive. and this
suIn mad been Increased tonight by sub
Scrlptlon 10 more than $1,000 Al the
"a IInternelloiaI I aviation meet at Belmont
LARK nearly 5000 was subscribed among
Soop pledged by Glenn II. Curtiss
Young Perkins. who accompa MED Lieu
tenant Hans GericIee in the Dusseldorf.
conceded as soon as he received the tele-
and the German had lost first place to
the New Workers.. Perkins had esti-
mated the distance Travelled by tho Dus-
scldorf az 12i0 miles. lie was overioyed
at hearing from his long lost rivals and
quickly dispatched 10 st. Ambrose. with
Instructions to forward, this message OF
congratulaton to Hawley and Post:
indications are that you have broken
the worlds record for sustained flight in
balloon Please accept my sincerest
consre tulatons on your skill. You arc
tile only ones | would be glad to see win
outside myself. ] know from my own
experience what you have risked TO make
such 4 trip.
Brother Naturally Elated
William Hawlcy shouted with elation
when he heard OF his brothers. success
and safety, For 2 week he had been
under constant strain and had been
IN hourly communication with points In
Canada from which he hoped TO receive
news OF the landing, AS the outlook
became greater. but through IL all he
did not lose faith in his broLhers ability
10 come through alive. He had sent J.
II, Pope and Edmund Stratton 10 Ottawa
10 carry on the search, but he notified
them tonight OF the happy ending
The America II. was last reported pass
ing over Maple City, Mich. on October
IS. Sky gazcrs We're able to read the
name on the balloon, but after this all
trace of her WAS lost Various prophc-
cicS Of the outcome were made. but the
main contention was that the aeronauts
mad landed in an Inaccessible region carly
Inst week taS, in fact. they did and were
unable To make their way to clvliza-
ton.
Many Had Lost Hope,
Those who took the glocmier view
were inclined to lhink as the days passed
that the men had peTishcd from cold and
hunger The outlook was made darker
by ihe suggestion Of drowning "A fate
thought not unlikely by the finding OF a
balloon basket on the shores of Lake
Superior, near Port Arthur, Ont, to-
day.
But the basket was not the America s,
as shown by later developments.
Record Surely Broken.
The new record established by Hawley
and Post unofficially and estimated at
| 1859 miles, exceeds all previous flights.
| Only this year Count OdensofT Of Russia
| claimed 10 have lowp l324 miles IN forty
| hours. but the figures were not officially
verified II the estimated distances are
| made official. the long standing record
I or Count dc la NaulN OF 1913 miles made
! ia 1909 in light from Franco l0 Siberia,
| has been broken by at least three of the
! contestants In the recent racc-thc Amer
| cil H., The Dusseldorf III. and the Ger
| mania The official figures Will be re-
Guired, however TO definitely settle tho
| question.
| dorf. which alighted approximately ll0 TO
| l25 miles from the spot whore the Amer
| cha lT. descended out OF his experiences
| tonight threw some light tho hard =
ships probably encountered by Uuwley
and Post. He said:
sit took MS four days to make our
| way seventeen miles through tho thick
| undcrbrush from where we landed To liis-
| EisiDk and II probably would have taken
| us twelve days more had VIC not come
upon guide. who took ua ten miles Of
| the distance In tho last hair day.
| II believe the. delay Of TJawloy and
| Post WAS due To similar hardships, Ap-
par"nuy, however they had river to
make their way along, which lillItcncd tho
| hardships or II would likely have required
| many more days for them 30 lIaNo gUL in
touch with tho world