The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-20
Race Started Saturday Evening at
indianapolis When Nine Big
Gas Bags Floated Off in
Breeze.
SCATTERED ALL OVER
Some In Virginia, Come In PennsyI-
vania and TWO of Them Were
Yet unreported This
Morning.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2o.-With two of
the nine balloons which started from
indianapolis Saturday in the elimina-
ton race for the American team In
the international race, which will start
from st, Louis October IL, unreported
at late hour last night, America H.,
Alan R. Hawley pilot and August Post |
aid, lead in distance and endurance,
assuring a place on the team of three
for Pilot Hawley.
The hope of st. Louis for place on
the international team remains with
H. Eugene Honeywell in the Conte1f-
nial and S. Louis Won Phul in the
Million Club, standing second and
third in distance last night. If tho
balloons New York and Buckeye, not
yet reported down, exceed the distance
Of 367 miles made by Honeywell In
the Centennial the Aero Club of st.
the race to be held under It's auspices
/ William F. Assman, from whom
much had been expected landed with
his aid, Paul Mccullough, Sunday
night far from railroad in Calhoun
county, w ", having covered about
/ $50 miles in twenty-five hours and ten
minutes.
It took all day for Assman and Nc
Culloch to get to telegraph office,
miles away. at Clarksburg, w. Va,
where they wired the Globe-Democrat
4 landed last night at 6:10 in Cal
houn county, w Va. Got away in bad
shape Appendix never opened. Aid
shook it all night and it opened little
under expansion. Rained all night
Had to valve constantly to keep down
Passed over Middletown, Columbus
Athens, Wheeling. Threw out every
thing and landed with one and one
half sacks ballast"
HawIey Lands at Warrentown.
WARRENTON, Va, September 90
The balloon America H., with Allan P.
! Hawley as pilot and Augustus Post as
aid, landed three miles southwest Of
this place. Mr.. Hawley reported the
big bag met with little rain and prac-
tically no storms, maintaining an al
titude of between 10000 and 10000
feet in its trip across Ohio and West
Virginia into this state. The balloon
, was in the air forty-two and one-half
hours, and the two aviators were prac-
tically exhausted
The American II was the winner of
last years International contest at
Zurich, Switzerland Hawley and Post
came near to equaling the American
endurance record, which is As hours
and 26 minutes. Mr. Post declared
they could easily have exceeded this
mark had it not been for the danger
of being carried out into Chesapeake
Bay.
Centennial Comes Down.
INDIANA, Pa, Sept 20-Balloon
e No 6, the Centennial, carrying Pilot
HONEYWELL and Lambert, landed neal
Heshbon According to the pilots
the trip was made without incident
i The air craft was shipped to Indianap
e oils
y Caught in Ranstorm.
: PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Sept 90
4 near Dexter, Ohio. The balloon was
e. entered in the race by the Aero Club
of PENNSYLVANIA, and the following tel
/ egram was received at the headquar
t ters:
t left Indianapolis, md, Saturday
t at 5:3S landed one mile north of Dex
it ter, Meigs County, Ohio. Sunday 1o:3l
IL a. no. Time, 16 hours, 50 minutes. Ap
r proximate air line. 21o miles. Heav!
L rain during Saturday night"
r The balloon carried Arthur T. Ath
erholt and G. B. Graham, both o
Philadelphia.
GETTING Anxious.
- NEW YORK, Sept. 20-Officials o
the Aero club of America are aIarme,
over two missing balloons of the 4
e that set sail from Indianapolis las
Saturday Had the balloons lande'
anywhere in the east. 1t is considere
almost certain that they would hav
! q been reported before this even ha,
g. they crossed into Canada.
= The Buckeye Lands.
q NEW YORK, Sept 20.-The Bucl
d eye. one of the three hitherto unrt
g ported balloons landed in Virgini
~ Monday morning according to tele
e gram received today. The telegra1
u was sent from Christiansburg, Va
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