The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-10-26
sPtNDLER LEAVES TORONTO FOR
CHhPLEAU, oNTARiO-oLO
...-< PLAN is DROPPED.
LOST IN FASTNESSES
Despite Three Reports as 70 the
America II Having Been Seen,
Nothing But Surmisc is Held-Mil-
waukee Weather Forecastcr Be-
iieycs Ship Fell Into. Lake Superior.

Ottawa, ont, oct 25..The black
Businesses Of the north tonight still
hold the secret Of the lost balloonlsts,
Alan II. Hawley and Augustus Post Of
New York and their sky ship. the
America IL. Various rumors have
reached the bureau established here by
Edmund II. Stratton. representing the
Aero club Of America, but when sifted
down they produced nothing that
would indicate the whereabouts Of the
ncronauts.
What appeared to be promising
clue developed early IN the day. when
il dispatch stated that Richard Cole, 4
guide and hunting party had seen
Ii balloon on Thursday several miles
north of Basco. Ont. This Item of
news, because all other balloons III
the race came to earth before Wednes-
day night, was received with great in
tcrest. Later In the day, however, y
was learned from DR.. G. Meyers OF
Toronto, Il member of the hunting
party, that the guide was mistaken In
the day. ~4-~-~.
The balloon was seen on "Wednesday
according to DR.. Meyers, and might
therefore, have been either the Isle dc
France or the Azurea. both of which
landed In that neighborhood. The idea
that the party saw the America has
not been given entirely up. but the
incident lost most of It's significance
with the change Of date.
A Second Report.
A second report that balloon mad
been seen on Thursday in the district
Immediately north of Georgian bay
reached here late today from the pro-
yincial police mt Toronto The report
was seen by Constable Mccurdy Of
chapleau. Some doubt also was cast
upon this story. II Is figured that the
America on Thursday would nave
been either several hundred miles to
the north or to the northeast Of Cha
pleau. Lewis spin1ler of the st. Louis
Aero club, who has been gathering
data fram friends In Toronto. today
advised Mr. Stratton by wire that nc
would leave for the north tonight TO
make Il personal investigation ol
both the Cole and Mccurdy stories,
third report came from Quebec,
but 1t Ii regarded as the least promla-
ing. Peter Brown, constable Of IN.
provincial force, sent word that he had
seen u balloon over Lake kipaWa Oh
Wednesday. Both the Gcrmanla anu
the Dusseldorf II passed through tn
territory, and 1t Is possible that 1t was
either one of these that Brown saw
Opinion Divided.
Opinion Ii divided as 10 the possl
bility Of rescnng the men, eve" II the,
Iassed safely over Lake Huron an'
Georgia bay into the vast wilderness
Of northern ontario ands Quebec q
the ungavc districts, further north
Professor n. w. Beck. director Of tn
geological survey, who knows ~
country like book, Is of The opinio'
that the aeronants will surely pniisl
II they sailed into the far northern
sections. There are parts of It, he SAID
where Indian and half breed hunter
have starved to death. Other officials
including Sir Wilfrld Laurier, who j
taking keen interest In the searc
for the lost men. believed they vii
come out all right. especially il the
landed south of the line of the trans
continental railway.
A Wild Country.
Except for IA gap of ia miles nea
the border line between Quebec an
Ontario, and another of the same siz
directly north of Lake Superior tn
entire line Is In some stage OF cor
struction. South of 1t the woods al
trayersed by scores Of hunters, busf
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