Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-20
MEET AT TRENTON ALL BALLOONS SAFE
New Jersey Republicans Begin Miss Sophia, Last to Report
State Convention. Landed in West Virginia.
TAFT ROOSEVELT CHEERS IPERILS OF THE UPPER AIR
Enthusiasm Aroused Speech Flight indianapolis
Temporary Chairman Wilson. usually Eventful One
PLATFORM READY ACTION BULLETS AN ADDED MENACE
Farmers From
Gov Fort Endorsed Shooting at Them
Miss Sophia, Last to Report,
Landed in West Virginia.
PERiLS OF THE UPPER AIR
Flight From Indianapolis an Un.
usually Eventful One.
BULLETS AN ADDED MENACE
Aeronauts Want Government to
Prevent Farmers From
Shooting at Them.

NEW YORK, September oO-Al but
one of the contestants In the balloon
race that started from indianapolis Sat-
urday night have been accounted for In
messages to the Aero Club OF America
here. The club was notified today that
the balloon New York landed at Ports
mouth. Ohio, at pm, on Sunday. and
that the Buckeye landed at Showaiter.
Va, al 40 am. No word was received
from the balloon Miss Sophia.
Capt. Thomas S. Baldwin of the balloon
New York returned here today. Capt
Baldwin was astonished when he learned
that the landing of the New York had
not been promptly reported.
Allan =. Hawley and Augustus Post OF
the America (which landed at Warren
ton. Va. yesterday afternoon. also had
strange experiences, which Mr.. Hawley
related
Il have never made voyage in which
so many adverse conditions were en-
| countered," said Capt. Baldwin.
Hot and Cold by Turns.
I'VE encountered hot sun. cold winds,
thunder. lightning and rain In rapid
| succession. 1t kept us guessing to man.
age the ballast under these conditions,
and when we dropped Sunday evening at
o'clock near Portsmouth, Ohio. we had
used it all up but few pounds.
Saturday night we were enveloped by
violent rains and were generally wet and
| uncomfortable. Sunday morning, how
ever the sun shone out, our gas expand
ed and we rose to a height of 100 feet
and kept rapidly rising till we were at
an altitude of 5000 feet or more
About noon Sunday we encountered
one of the worst thunderstorms l have
| ever met with in the upper air. Only by
soaring above 1t at height Of three and
| half miles did we avert the danger of
being struck by lightning. 1t was q
magnificent spectacle as we were carried
along above 1t.
Kept in Upper Currents.
"All the afternoon We scared along,
keeping to the upper air currents and
constantly throwing out ballast At
o'clock Sunday afternoon we found
ourselves with hardly a pound of bal
| last left. and we began to look about
| such a spot on a hillside near Ports
mouth, Ohio"
Mr.. Hawley had quite as eventfuI a
trip in the fOrty-four and one-half
hours he and his companions spent in
! the air. They also passed through
storms and heavy rains which con-
densed their gas.
THE government should take steps
at once to protect balloonists who are
likely to be killed at any time by ig-
norant or vicious countrymen who per-
sist in firing at them they fly above
farms" said Mr.. Hawley. while We
were passing above Noble county,
Ohio. on Sunday evening. / distinctly
heard two bullets whistle past my ears
and there were several reports. 1t was
so serious that we actually decided
that in the event OF one of us being
struck by a bullet the other should in
stantly descend.
when we landed at Warrenton we
could have kept in the air some hours
longer, and only came to earth for fear
of being blown into Chesapeake bay"
Miss Sophia Is Reported.
ST. LOUIS, September 20.-The balloon
Miss Sophia. an entrant i'm the balloon
| race, landed i'm Calhoun county, w. Va,
Sunday evening at 6:1O O'Clock. w. +.
Assmann of St. Louis, the pilot. reported
from Clarksburg, w. Va. that he landed
many miles from a railroad with less
| than two sacks Of ballast.