Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-07-13
TWO ST.LOU|S
BALLOONS WIN
EMMETT |: TRIAL
St Louis Nv and Million
Population Club Had the
Greatest Distance to Their
Credit; All Have Landed.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 12-With the
fSst Louis W., and Million Population
4 Stub, both OF St Louis, rest the honors
Sof winning first and second places In
\ the national elimination balloon race
4 which started from this city Monday
4 evening, and to two St. Louis pilots
falls the right of joining Alan X.
IHawley OF New York in representing
1 the United States In the international
I balloon races for the James Gordon
Bennett cup. which will start from
here October 5.
While soficial returns OF tho race
will not be available for several days.
h there is no doubt, according to officials
L OF the Kansas City Aero club, that
/ first place will 60 to the st. Louis ~,
K which landed near Lapaz, Ind. at 4:15
O'Clock yesterday afternoon and sec
Ond to the Million Population club
(Which came down at La Crosse, Ind,
Vat 2:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
I The oficial winners will be announced
when these records have been COM
pleted by the National Aero associa.
!, tion Of New York.
The altitude record of the race as
well 40 the distance record Is believed
\ to have been made by Lieut.. Frank P.
Lahm, and Lieut.. John p. Hart, pilot
! and aid In the st. Louis w., whose in
struments recorded q maximum alti-
tude Of 22.000 feet.
Where tho Balloons Landed.
eA, The locations In which the balloons
,y nded and the unofaclal distances
II Iade by them follow:
~ The st. Louis w, descended at Lap
paz, Ind. The landing was made cas-
". The pilot, Lieut.. Frank p. Lahm,
nd his aid, Lieut.. ]. P. Hart, left for
Chicago. Distance 525 miles.
Million Population club landed at
{.2:,45Sa aps m, at La Crosse. Ind. Dis
/; tanpe 466s miles.
Miss Soda William r. Arsman pilot
and John M. O'Reilly aid, representing
the st. Louis Aero club. landed near
franklin park, . suburb Of Chicago,
466 miles. I.
Buckeye, J. H. Wade. Jr.. pilot and
R. n. Hitchcock aid, representing the
Cleveland Aero club OF Cleveland;
landed four miles east of New Holland,
ILL.,: distance 315 miles.
Topeka H., Frank M. Jacobs pilot,
Gand sRafte Emerson aid, representing
1.-THE. Western association of Topeka;
Handed near La Harpe, ILL.,; distance,
New York, clifford B. Harmon pilot
and Augustus Post aid. representing
b the Aero club Of New York: landed at
Fremont, la; distance, 1853 miles.
Kansas City. Capt. H. e. Honey
well pilot and John Watts aid, rep
resenting the Kansas City Aero club;
landed near Linby, Ia; distance, 160
piles.
Winning Pilot Tells Of Trip.
Chicago, July .12.-Details were OBJ.
tanned today Of the trip Of the bal
loon st. Louis Nv, In charge Of Lieut..
Frank p. Lahm and Lieut.. ]. P. Hart,
which left Kansas City at 4:5O p. m.
and landed at LaPaz, Ind, sixteen
miles from South Bend, at 4:15 p. m.
yesterday.
The balloon represented the aero
nautic corps Of the national guard OF
! Missouri. Lieut.. Hart said:
1--WE made the trip at record-break-
Asng speed and were between $4,000
gand $4,000 feet from the earth during
the entire journey. Our voyage was
anything but pleasant. Soon after leav-
Sing Kansas City Monday afternoon we
encountered a series of thunderstorms
] which made it necessary for US to rise
above the clouds and get away from
the rain. The storm seemed to follow
us all through Missouri and Illinois.
We crossed the Mississippi river early
Tuesday morning. Our balloon be.
haved handsomely under the circum-
stance although we were kept busy
all the time. We never saw any of
the other balloons after leaving Kan
sas City. We landed without mishap
In a large field and slept last night in
4 farm house. The highest altitude we
reached was $4,000 feet"