The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-27
They Are Well and Very Hap.
py Over the Results They
Accomplished
TWO TRAPPERS BROUGHT THE
BALL00M|sTS OUT TO WORLD
Covered Distance of 1000 Miles and
1856 in an Air Line, the Distance
Upon Which the International Cup
Race Was Based.

Ch1coutimt, Que. Oct. 27.-Allen R.
Hawley and Augustus Post, new hold
ers Of the worlds balloon champion
ship, showed little i'll effects TODAY
from the thrilling experience, which
have been their since they left st.
Louis nine days ago. in the America
IL. They were fatigued but the trip
had been thoroughly worth while
they said. Tell our friends that we
are we'll and very happy" was the
message which they sent from their
rooms in the hotel.
The two aeronauts reached here at
10 o'clock last night and retired
shortly before midnight, as soon after
their arrival as they could get away
from the welcoming and congratulate
Ing citizens. They had driven forty
miles over rough country from st.
Ambrose since early afternoon and
were "tired to the bone" as one of
them expressed it.
A flood Of telegraphic messages
from the United States, which awaited
them on their arrival, were unan-
swered and for the ,most part unread,
till morning. The nights rest was
bound to be brief, for their train over
the Quebec and Lake St. John road
was scheduled to leave at 1880 O'Clock
In the morning.
Their balloon, the America II is
still at Lake DuBanc DeSable, this
being the title of the township where
they landed. 1t is believed that Jos.
Pednaud and JOS. Simard, the two
trappers who brought the balloonists
In q bark canoe to St. Ambrose, will
60 back and see what can be done to
get the bag from its cache on the
side Of the mountain, to the railroad
here.
Messrs.- Hawley and Post landed
about forty-six hours after their de-
parture from st. Louis. They prob
ably flew in all about 1,6OO miles, al
though the direct distance between
the two points, on which the inter-
national race is decided, is only 1855
miles. This would make their aver
age rate Of progress about thirty-five
miles an hour.
Hawley and Post will reach Quebec
shortly before o'clock this evening.
The aeronauts regretted leeving
their staunch aircraft where they
landed, they said. The balloon was
in perfect condition when they set
out from it, in which they had slept
the first night after their landing,
fifteen hundred feet up on the side
Of an unidentified mountain near
Lake DeBanc De Sable.
They believe that had they not en-
conntered an adverse wind, which
blew against them a heavy snow
storm, they might easily have gone
on nearly If not entirely to the Allan
tic.
'1t is unlikely the balloon will be
recovered" said Hawley just before
boarding the train for Quebec. "How-
ever, 1t is lost in a good cause. We
have without doubt, beaten the worlds
record by more than two hundred
miles,"
eve really suffered greatly from
the cold. AS we tramped slowly
away from the America H., we were
seriously hampered by the goods we
had to pack, for It was absolutely
necessa ryto take along our heaviest
clothing besides the remaining food.
frequently we waded through streams
of ice cold water. So cold was the
weather that at times our clothing
was frozen to our bodies. When we
came across the trappers on the
fourth day we could have wept for
Joy. We were about all in"
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