The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-24

N.-.n dI-p-iar.i and nat they might b"
gong Iu IN" r"nE tlr"'i .un di'"g"ih"r
sill Thov b rpt ou Eu'Il :. " clp'N -
o. ght when Thy tell "NhI..-t'd AMI 'i.d
% sleep Then n b. san 20 ram. ,"ld
drlZzl" mingled with Sl""t which dT"uch'd
rham through Unabl" To- sleep they
.trawI.d on most 81 m" night. stopping
only for ten OF fifteen minutes At a tim"
80 - IN" electric lamp which they
carried and which burned for twenty
hours made slight headway IN the night
n Wa- impossible to go back :" IN" bal
loon and they had long -inC~ gwen up
any thought ~ the Gordon B"nn"if prlZ"
m. only interest remaining being 10 -aN"
their lives
When daylight came thursday morn
ing the forest was all rnbroken. With
blaedIng hands and weary limbs they
staggered onward. their clothing torn
almost 80 shreds Had Their" boon any
thorn bushes = would have. heen imi o-si
L. to get through. 80 dense vas tn"
growth
In all four lakes wer" pa~-ed Great
dificulty Was encountered IN crossing
valley amounting almost TO canon.
VII Oh was reached Thursday noon
Seven times they crossed winding
stream. wadinR ~ water ~ the waist
t-for. emerging from ia" valley and the
dizappoIntm ent at finding stiil no sign
- CLEARING from the opposite blum was
80 great that Won Ahercron thought u
tf'ffsaT Ia rnbbi fuethrfiNfN Nllau ~
starvation pr madness
II was : o'clock in the afternoon. they
had had nothing 20 eat since "Wednesday
morning and little sleep since the pres tol-
sunday night but hope decided them
- 60 on until dark when rather than go
through another night in the WOODS they
would end " all
Tn. howling ~ wolves was heard ~
the distance though not an animal was
seen few tracks that they thought
might have be@n made Ivy noOse wer"
noticed on the shore Of one Of the lakes
soon Banckerz saw a great lASe.
larger than any ~ he o'heT- and hore
was revived Following the shore for
few miles they came - n breaN and saw
hu' IN a hall From the hill they saw
gang, which they reached ~ q O'Clock
Thursday afternoon. thirty-two hours
after leaving the balloon The Cons' 7Ic-
ton gang were Bulgarian ant Italian
naVNIes.
The navvie- had seen the Germania
descend and were expecting the aero
nauts
They also e1id they had seen yellow
balloon Mr. BlAncksrrZ thinks probably
the America II one n the still missing
halloons. preceding the Germania hy
half an hour and heading m the same
direction She WIS very high up and
maintained the same altitude until she
pass-d ou ~ sight toward the tngavs
Wilderness"
Arriving at Coocoooache Mr. Blanckertz
feleRraph"d his wife IN New York u meet
him IN Montreal and he then went with
tap' won Abarcron Ia la Tuque sixty
miles south where the Me--rS Brown II
the La Tuque Pulp Mills volunteered Ia
help 10 recover the balloon.
4 reward Of $3.50 has been offered To
any one who finds the Germanla and re-
covers the Instruments and aluminium
cloth cover OF III. halloNn. valued AZ
s. m.
BosToN. Oct. pa message was
received here early this morning in which
Hans GarIcke. pilot 81 the balloon D,is-el-
and his aid Samuel = Perkins 81 BOSTON.
deHcribe their trip from ~ Louis. q dis
tanCe. according IN their calculations. 81
go miles. The message saws
After very exciting trip the balloon
dusseldorf II. containing iercke and
Perkins landed Wednesday noon seven
teen miles north Of Lake kiskIsInk. which
il 1870 miles northeast ~ Ouehec city
and distance ~ 10 miles from the
starting point We had fifteen Rags ~
ballast when We landed and could hav"
stayed up thirty-siX hours longer only
that We had gone to the end ~ all rail
roads and could never haN" gotten back
to civilization
our route was ~ Louis 10 Milwaukee,.
then about northeast 20 the end ~ our
Journey. We had good wind until
across Michigan. when "" were becalmed
for Ave hours Then We struck "a big
storm hell and flew across the continent
At the rate ~ seventy five miles an hour
& Consequently the landing was very rough
and w. were lucky 10 get down with M
broken bones knowing that W" we're
near the end ~ civilization "" chose Lake
Kiskisink for u landing place when still
five miles away
Trouble with the valv" DELAYED the I
landing and 49, result We we're IOUD
feet high before We really started on the
d"sc"nt Thus "" did not start 10 com"
down until well past the city. The descent
was made ~ nine minutes
Thinking that "" we're bui few hours
walk from tho railroad w. leisnrelv rolled
NJ N" balloon and started back about
= ~ m" afternoon Nv u'clpck ". had
made only half q mi" l"oau-r - N" dense
IInderbrush aud Ne yer" obliged t.
sleep out N tho open that night
Thursday We went hack ~ the balloon
10 get all the extra provisions that we
carried. for We knew then that Ne had
a great task on our hand We were 10