The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-19
Three Of the Ten Which Started in
the Big Race Had Landed
Yesterday on v. S.
Soil.
OTHERS CROSS BORDER
Dusseldorf Was Leading the Flock
and Headed Toward the Wilds
Of Hudson Bay
Country.

ST LOUIS, Oct. 19.-With the
weather and air currents ideal for
the purpose and the rubber balloons
of all the aeronauts who remained
in the air holding their gas wonder
fully, there is every indication that
the worlds record for balloon dis
tance of 1888 miles will be broken
by one of the contestants in the in
ternational balloon race, which start
ed from ST. Louis Monday. If any one
crosses Lake Huron, where six have
been reported in the air at a late
hour last night, or go over Georgian
Bay, the direction the Dusseldorf II
is headed, the American distance rec
ord of S73 miles will be broken. But
it is probable that some of the aero I
nauts will pilot their craft into OF I
tawa and be carried into the wilds OF
! the Hudson Bay country If the air
currents that have favored them so
/ far continue.
AT late hour last night the Ger
mania was heading straight across
! the Great Lakes for Ontario. Within
radius of 100 miles over Lake Huron,
according to dispatches, the Amerl-
ca II, the Swiss Helvetia, the Azu-
rea, the Isle de France and the Ger
man Hamburg III, are sweeping OBJ
/ ward in comparatively close touch
with the leader. The balloon Dussel-
Z dorf H., with Pilot Gericke and Aid
Perkins, passed Reed City, Mich,
last night.
! Seven Of the balloons are still sail
ing. six are known to have crossed
Lake Michigan, while others are be-
lieyed to have reached Canadian
shores.
The only three cambria balloons
that started in the race were the
first to land. These were the Mil
, lion Club. Condor and st. Louis NO. 4
in the order named. 1t is believed
:, that these balloons were affected by
remaining all night laid out on rne
, ascension grounds before the race on
account of the very heavy dew tha'
fell all night. The varnish may nave
been loosened by the dampness Snd
the sun the next day finished the
work. There is little doubt that all
, three balloons leaked during their
time in the air.
St Louis No. a, H. E. Honeywell
: pilot, and ]. w Tolland. aid, was the
third balloon reported down in the
u ereat international air classic
y landed near the shore of Lake Huron
s at Hillmann, Mich 655 miles (9oC
kilometers) from st. Louis, at dusA
last night. Honeywell said he wouic
e have attempted to cross the lake, bu
- that his ballast was getting low.
% Balloon Condor, Jacques Faure, Pill
~ ot and E G. Schmolck, aid, landee
a. a. about four miles north of Two Rivers
"a wis 412 miles (65O Mlometers) from
y ST Louis. en- the shore OF LAKE
~ Michigan, yesterday afternoon. IN
- airmen had been over Lake Michigan
- for one hour and fifteen minutes a
height of about so feet before ID
air current carried them in to shore
where they landed.
The second hope of the st. Lou
% Aero Club, S. Louis 'on phui, WIZ
'n M. O'Reilly, in the balloon Mllilo
c,uh was first to land. They cam
81 to earth at 1925 a. m. yesteroa
IL morning. six and one-half miles mort
IN Of Racine, Wis, 317 miles from ;
as J,ouis. Won Phul, in telegram TO III
us Globe-Democrat said that he lande
iu with eight sacks of ballast, when
Is had not considered sufficient 70 ca
ry him over Lake Michigan, wit
es the wind blowing from the soutl
west. g.,
fe. The great aeronautic contest fu
an nished plenty of thrills for resident
IN Of Wisconsin and Michigan, as we
pc as travellers on the Great hahe
I.aayine Milwaukee at a high altitud
tho s,zy pilots traversed perilo'
stretch of more than hundred mlis
IL, over Lake Michigan. The America
- nassed Manistee, Mich, during the
lrd ternoon and others were reported 0
'rk er Muskegon, Shelby and Pentwate
ms
of one in Ontario.
'ill LITTLE CURRENT, Ont, octob
he ia large balloon passed over ne
OF aarlv today, travelling northeast.
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