The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-27

At least this is the way the aeronauts
We're inclined to view the matter today
after enjoying some good food and in
dulging in several hours of sleep in
comfortable beds in this town instead
of under blankets on SnOW-cOVered
ground They left here at o'clock this
morning for Quebec where their train
was due II hours later.
Despite the hardships encountered
after their landing high up on a wood
ed mountain side, october 19, after an
air trip of 1850 miles from st. Louis
in about 6 hours, the sky sailors ex-
pressed themselves enthusiastically re-
garding the pleasures of the trip. They
admitted, however, that one of the
pleaSantest incidents of all was their
meeting the two trappers after four
days of wandering through woods and
water veined areas which permitted
only snaillike progress. The motion of
the birch canoes, they said, in which
the WoOdsmen took them down wind
ing streams to st. Ambrose, was quite
as enjoyable as that of the car of the
America II which during the last few
hours of flight was heavily buffeted
by the snOwstorm that made their
landing necessary.
St AMBROSE looked good to them,
weary as they were, when they reached
it yesterday, they said, but they lost
no time in starting on the forty mile
drive to this place. The aerOnautS re-
gretted leaving their aircraft where
they landed. The balloon was in per-
feet condition when they set out from
It's basket in which they had slept the
first night after the landing fifteen
hundred feet uD.
They believe that had they not en-
cOuntered the adverse winds which
brought against them the heavy snow
storm, they might easily have gone on
nearly if not quite to the Atlantic.
1T is unlikely the balloon will be
Z Z ATT- TJcTF Low
ever, we have without doubt beaten
the worlds record by more than 200
miles
1--WE suffered greatly from the cold
as we tramped away from the Amer
lea II. We were seriously hampered
by the goods we had to pack, for it
was absolutely necessary to take along
our heaviest clothing, besides the re-
naming food Frequently we waded
through streams of ice cold water. So
cold was the weather at times that our
clothing was frozen to our bodies.
When we came across the trappers the
fourth day we could have cried for
JOY. We were about 'all in "
Arrival at Chicoutimi.
Chicoutimi, Que, Oct. 27.-Thoroughly
fatgued and showing plentiful marks
of an arduous week of struggling
through the dense wilderness of north
ern Canada, Messrs. HaWley and Post
the Unsuitable aerOnauts, who, accord.
ing to available data, sailed the Amer
lea II nearly 20 miles farther than any
other contestants in the big balloon
race for the Gordon Bennett cup, ar
rived here last evening.
They had landed at 3:45 Wednesday
afternoon, October 10, 1,50O feet up on
the face of an unnamed mountain
which, as nearly as they could reckon
lies about 5S miles north of Chicoutimi
and about eight miles north of Lake
Tshistigam. They had been involved
in snow storm which was accom-
panied by a change in the wind to a
which, up till then, bade
fair to carry them to the Labrador
coast. The adverse conditions com
PEELED them to land. much against their
wishes. Landing was effected easily
and the balloon was left in good con-
dition.
Sanguinely, they started to go to the
nearest settlement. They We're uncom-
tortaDly near the end of their provis-
ions, but, recounting the story of their
experiences, they made light of that
feature. They had confidence, they saw
IN their ability to kill sufficient game
to prevent starvation.
For three nights they were Obliged +o
sleep in the open air. It was a stiff fight
through snowy forests. The weather
was exceedingly cold. Then the camp
OF trapper was struck on the river
Aours, and days rest was enjoyed