Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-27
HAWLEY AND
POST START
FOR QUEBEC
Aeronauts In America II
Safe In Canadian Town
After Hard Experience.
PROVISIONS GET LOW
Trappers Commissioned to
Get Balloon and Ship Back
to Civilization.
ENTERTAINED NO FEAR
Missing Nine Days Seven Of
Which We're Spent in
Canadian Wilderness.
ENTERTAINED NO FEAR
special By United Prsss wire.


Chicoutimi, Quebec, Oct. 27-Alan
r. Hawley and Augustus Post, who,
in the balloon America H." estab-
lished a worlds record of 1850
miles, boarded a train for Quebec to-
day. They commissioned party of
trappers to locate the America II.
and bring it back to civilization.
Although they were uncomfortably
near the end of their provisions,
Hawley and Post said they had not
worried as they had good sense of
direction and were sure at all times
that they would get back all right.
New York, Oct. 27.-Alan r. Hawley
and Augustus Post, the crew Of the
balloon America H., SO long thought
lost, are safe. Not only that, but they
have broken the worlds record for dis
tance Travelled in balloon. A dispatch
announcing the safety of the balloon
lists of whom no certain news had
been heard since they started on Oct.
IL in q race from st. Louis, has been
received at the Aero club 1t was
signed by Hawley and Post and read:
st. Ambrose, saguenay, Oct 26.
Charles II. Heitman, Aero Club of Amer
fca, New York:
Landed Peribonla river, Lake Chilago-
ma,-1ath. All well. HAWLEY.
Thus the aeronauts have made a
wonderful achievement. Missing nine
days they struggled for seven days and
nights through the Canadian wilder
nesses toward the remote outposts of
civilization.
They have won the international bal
loon race that started from st. Louis
on Oct. II, and have established a new
worlds record for distance travelled in
the air The best previous record was
made by Count de la Vaulx. 1,is3
miles from Paris TO the Russian bor-
der.
Post and Hawley made 1850 miles,
unofficial figures. G
Chicatoumi, Que, Oct 26.-"We had
a beautiful trip said Mr.. Post. I'VE
crossed Lake Michigan and Lake Hu-
ron and followed what l should judge
to be the route of the proposed Geor-
gian bay canal, and, If you ask me,
there Is water enough in that section
of the country not only to suit the
canal but to float all the ships of the
world.
''Then we crossed the ottawa and
foated ever the forests of northern
Quebec, passing over innumerable
lakes and rivers. The country below
was always densely wooded. Finally
on Wednesday morning we found that
we were north of Lake st. John and
going well, and we had hopes that we
would be able to continue the trip un-
til we struck the Labrador coast.
Unfortunately about O'clock on
Wednesday afternoon the 18th, storm
came up and 1t became necessary to
make a landing. We picked out a
mountain and came down upon 1t and
made an easy landing on the mountain
side at an elevation of about ! 300 feet.
at was near nightfall and we knew
that we were a considerable distance
from any settlement, so we decided to
pass the night In the basket of the
balloon.
"The next morning we started for
civilization, heading south. We had
three days of strenuous exercise, with
no more to eat than was absolutely
necessary, as we had to carry all our
food as well as the blankets to cover
us at night. And we needed those
blankets badly, for we had two snow
storms on the way.