The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-12
ST. LOUIS WINS.
Both Her Balloons Leaders in
the Elimination Race.
Million Population Club Lands
at La Crosse.
DISTANCE TRAVELLED.
National Guard AerOnauts Had
an Exciting Trip.
Assembled as High as % 900 Feet
in the Air.
DISTANCE TRAVELLED.

Kansas City, July 12.-With the bal
looms St. Louis " and Million Popula-
ton club, both of ST. Louis, rest the
honors of winning first and second
places in the national elimination bal
loon race which started from this city
Monday evening, and to two ST. Louis
pilots falls the right of. joining Alan
r. Hawley of New York in represent
ing the United States in the interna-
tional balloon races for the James
Gordon Bennett cup which viii start
from here October 5. While official
returns of the race will not be avail
able for several days. there is no doubt,
according to officials OF the Kansas
City Aero club, that first place Will go
to the ST. Louis " which landed near
La Paz Junction, Indiana. at AIS yes
terday, and second place to the Nit
lion Population club which came down
at La Crosse, Indiana. at 2:45 yester-
day afternoon.
The sight of a bright light in the
sky moving out over Lake Erie in
Cleveland last night led to the rumor
that the Million Population club, the
only balloon not heard from at that
time, was ahead of ALL The where
abouts of the Million Population club,
however, was settled by a telegram
received late last night from its pilot
announcing the landing at La Crosse
"A
pilot forwarded all instruments and
records of the flight to the headquar-
ters of the Aero association in New
York. The official winners will be an
nounced when these records have been
checked up.
The altitude record of the race as
well as the distance recorded is be-
lieved to have been made by Lieutenant
Frank P. La.llm and Lieutenant John r
Hart, pilot and aid in the St. Louis "
whose instruments recorded maxi
mum altitude of 3, 600 feet
All the pilots seem to have encoup-
tered thunder storms which pursued
them for miles.
Several balloons by high attitudes
Weathered the storms but two, the New
York and the Kansas City. were forced
to land directly on account of them.
One balloon, the Miss Sofia, which
made third in distance. landed near
Chicago, because Of lack of ballast t
attempt the flight over Lake Michigan.
The balloons, their landing places
and unofficial distances as compiled
are:
St. Louis ". pilot, Lieutenant Frank
P. Lahm. aid, Lieutenant John P. Hart;
landed near Lapaz Junction, Ind, 525
miles.
Million Population club, pilot. Cap
tain John Berry, aid, Paul Mccullough;
landed at La Crosse, Ind, 4S5 miles.
Miss Sofia, pilot, William F. Assman.
aiu, JOnE M. - fellIys Idnded near
Franklin Park, suburb of Chicago, AIS
miles.
Buckeye, pilot, J. H. Wade, jr, aid
r. H. Hitchcock; landed four miles
east of New Hollard, Ill, 315 miles.
Topeka II. pilot, Frank NJ. Jacobs,
aid, Ra-ffe Emerson; landed near La
Harpe, Ill, 100 miles.
New York, pilot. Clifford B. Harmon,
aid. Augustus Post; landed at Fremont,
Ia. 15S miles.
Kansas City. pilot, Captain H. E.
Honeywell. aid, John Watts; landed
near Linby, Ia, $50 miles.
Went Up %, 900 Feet.
Chicago, July 12.-Details were OBJ
tanned today of the trip of the balloon
St. Louis No. 4, in charge of Lieuten-
ant Frank p Lahm and Lieutenant
]. P Hart which left Kansas City at
4:5O p. m. and landed at Lapaz, Ind,
16 miles from South Bend at 4:15 p.
m. yesterday.
The balloon represented the aero
nautic corps of the national guard of
Missouri.
Lieutenant Hart said:
I'VE made the trip in record break
ing speed and were between 10000
and $4,000 feet from the earth during
the entire journey. Our voyage was
anything but pleasant. Soon after
leaving Kansas City, Monday after
noon we encountered a series of thun-
derstorms, which made it necessary