The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-24

dav morning; about 43 hours in air.
Distance about 1,040 miles.
Helvetia (Switzerland). Theodore
schaeck pilot. A; A., ArmbrIster n1n; os1e aid
71HnnnG Wednesday; about As hours in air.
distance about $50 miles
Isle de France (F,rance), Alfred Le-
plano pilot, Walter de Mumm aid.
Landed at Pogamasing. Ont, at a. m.
Wednesday. Thirty-four hours and SO
minutes in air. Distance about 725
Azurea (Switzer1and). Emil Messner
niIot. Leon Giraudan aid. Landed 80
miles northeast of Biscotasing, A1goma
district, Ont, Wednesday morning.
About AZ hours in air. Distance about
772 miles.
Hamburg III Germany, Lieutenant
Vogt pilot, w. F. Assmann aid. Land
ed in Lake Nipissing, Ont. Tuesday at
Q D. m. Time in air 25 hours and 46
minutes Distance about $50 miles.
St Louis No. 4 (America), H. E.
Landed at Hillman, Mich, Tuesday
night. About % hours in air. Dis
tance about $50 miles
Condor (France), Jacques Faure
pilot, E. c.. Schmolck aid. Landed at
Two Rivers, Wis, Tuesday at p. m.
Twenty-one hours and 20 minutes in
air Distance about 410 miles
Million Club (America). S. Louis
Won Phul pilot, J. NJ. O'Reilly aid.
Landed near Racine, Wis, Tuesday at
1925 a. m. In air IA hours and 80
minutes Distance about S15 miles.
Sighted Last Tuesday.
ST. Louis. Oct. 24.-The balloon
America II, the only one of the inter-
national race entrants which has not
vet reported a landing. passed over
ThompsonviIIe, Mich, Tuesday, Octo-
ber IS, according to a message re-
sy7rr T,v-f hn ri h
of st. Louis.
The message was signed by Alan R.
Hawley and Augustus Post, pilot and
aid. 1t read:
'"Thompsonvi1le, Mich.-America II
passed over this place Tuesday. Course
due north.''
The delayed message was dropped to
a farmer eight miles from Thompson
vile, and was forwarded by e. s.
Northrop of Thompsonville. NOrthrop
replying to a message Of inquiry, said
the farmer who received the message
from the balloonists and talked with
them and read the name of the
aerostat on the gas bag.
The course of the balloon was west
of st. Ignace, Mich, over Sutton's bay.
The America II, according to North
rop's message. followed the course of
the Azurea and the Helvetia. The
former landed thirty-two miles north
east of Biscotasing, Ontario, and the
latter near vile marc, OnIdTIO. Inc
receipt of the message revived the hope
of the Aero club that Hawley and Post
are alive and now it is only the ques-
ton of getting them to civilization.
Lewis Spindler, who is en- route to
Toronto to lead an expedition of
rescue, has been advised to conf1ne his
work to points westward of Sudbury
on the Canadian Pacific.
The Hudson Bay company tele-
graphed all of its trappers at the out
posts have been advised to look for the
missing balloon and render any neces-
sary aid. They were also instructed to
forward word of the landing as soon
as possible.
a second Relief Party.
St. Louis, Oct. 24.-A second relief
party Will be sent out of here tonight
by the Aero club to make its head
quarters at Otter, Ontario, from which
point it will prosecute a search for
Hawley and Post.
When Lewis Spindler arrives at To-
ronto tonight he will receive a tele-
gram advising him to go to Chapleau,
Ontario. which is northeast of Sault
ste. Marie. Provisions and guides will
be collected in both towns for the dis
patching of two parallel relief columns
into the wintry forests.