The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-11
Finally Gets Away.

Finally Gets Away.
The Million Population Club balloon
had to have two starts before it would
arise. AL first the bag clung to the earth
arising only two feet. 1t was brought
hack after going fifty feet and given a
new start. 1t got away finally at 1886
o'clock
The failure OF the Million Population
balloon TO rise at first Was due to some
When it finally sailed away 1t rose only
100 feet above the earth. John NJ, Berry
pilot. Paul Mccullough. aide.
Aern The cdn hnesss asSse OF ns 5s e. H. Wade de-
pilot: T. IL Hitchcock. aide
The ST. Louis Iw Lieutenant nan, Erank ' p
Lahm pilSt Lentenapt JohI n. r Hart
Of any Of the balloons as the band played
Casey Jones'"
:. The last bag to go aloft was the New
York. Clifford b Harmon. pilot; Angus
tus Post aide. It arose at 6:02.
A race not scheduled on the regular
proEramme was run between here and
Liberty. Mo. a distance OF fifteen miles.
Just as the first entrant in the race. the
Kansas City. was leaving the ground. n
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy passenger
train left railroad station near the
engineer and HONEYWELL determined to
outdistance the other. So they both
put on steam" The passengers soon
learned the race was on and they leaned
out of windows and crowded the plat
forms TO cheer the contestants.
The engine won the race by two min
forty minutes. which would indicate that
Captain Honeywell encountered a livelier
breeze after he left here than he had at
the start.
The first balloon to leave the field was
the Topeka I, OF 10000 feet capacity. and
not regular entrant II was permitted
to start as pilot to the Topeka H. The
later almost made a forced landing mile
east OF Liberty 1t came within fifty
feet OF the ground and then rose again.
o'clock The last entrant the New York,
had cleared the ground at SOP o'clock,
Interest in New York.
Great interest centered around the New
YORK, because 1t held the choice start
Ing position in the race. and also because
augustus Post, who divided honors with
Alan K. l7awley in plotting the America
II to victory in the James Gordon Ben
nett cup race last year. was the pilot,
Captain Honeywell does not think any
-ecords VIII be broken In this race. He
said this is the wrong time of year. for
last to maninnlate 'fss tbe SalIoon zoe "Sn ontober
weather is ideal for long flights, accord
ing TO Honeywell.
I'm this extremely hot weather" he
said. "a balloon is alternately heated and
cooled II ascends and descends corre-
spondingly. In an effort 10 keep his bal
loon up he throws out ballast The re-
suit Is his sand is, soon gone and ho must
descend
Experienced aeronauts predicted today
that with fair luck the balloons should
be half way, 10 Chicago by daybreak to-
F Assmann. ali the pilots took with
them enough food To last two men three
days. Assniann took food for his aide
alone. The pilot does not eat while In
Shortly after S o'clock tonight j. Cowan
Hurlburt of st. Louis left the field in his
io,ooo-foot balloon Missouri in an effort
TO break the distance record for balloons
Of that size. The record is S25 miles.
iiurlburt was accompanied by Henry
Weber OF st. Louis. The pilot was i'll
abandon his flight This is weber's arst
balloon trip.
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo-. July 10
The pilot OF the Topeka |. dropped the
city at 7:3O o'clock tonight;
'rhis balloon passed over the north
western portion of this town at $40
FIVE miles northwest of us. They are not
more than mile apart and are going
north and east. travelling approximately
is trailing in the same direction. Two
other balloons approached this city, but
before they reached here they swerved
ana Nook nOTlHWeSterly course IN lnc
direction OF Kearney or Lathrop.'
POLO, Mo-, July 10.-The pilot bal
loon Topeka ] made a safe landing on
the farm OF John Pate, one and q half
miles northeast Of here. tonight shortly
after o clock.
Three other balloons followed in the
wake of the Topeka !. passing over here
at an estimated speed OF ten miles an
hour and travelling northeast. They were
less than five hundred feet from the
ground. but their names could not be
decjphered.
I2nln Is sixIN miles frnIn kansas City