The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-03
HONEYWELL SPENT 3'DAYS IN CUTTING
 WAY OUT OF WOODS
Pilot of Kansas CitI II In Inter national Balloon Race, Tells of Experience to Post
 Dispatch Reporter

In the St. Louis Dispatch the fol lowing account of H. E. Honeywell's trip in the international balloon race is pub- lished October 30:
 "H F. Honeywell of St. Louis, who piloted the balloon Kansas City Il and finished second in the international aero- nautic championship race which started from Birmingham, Ala, October 25, re- turned home last night. Today he gave to Post-Dipsatch reporter his first ac- count of his air flight of approximately 1000 miles, which carried him from Bir- mingham to Tongue Mountain, near Lake George, N. Y. in approximately forty-three hours.
 With Maj. Jerome Kingsbury as my aide I got away from the Birmingham field at 4:S7 D. m. last Saturday. said Honeywell. The wind at that time was carrying us west-northwest. We passed over Hamilton, Ala, and Corinth, Miss, and were about twenty miles west of Paris. Tenn, when the wind veePed so that our course was due north.
 TRAVELLED 4,0O0 FEET UP
 At an altitude of 4,Oo0 feet we passed over Fairfield, III, 109 miles east of St. Louis. At dusk Sunday, when twenty Wayne. Ind, and at 9:S0 that night we passed over the outskirts of Detroit. Two hours later we were over the north shore of Lake Erie, still travelling east-northeaSt.
 |" At a. m. Monday we were directly over Niagara Falls. We could see hun dreds of electric lights at the Niagara power plants and we could hear the roar of the falls.
 For time we wers over the south shore of Ontario, Canada. From chat point we traverel very fast. We got into an extremely high wind and I be- lieve that we travelled 100 miles an hour. A part of the time we were 10000 feet up and enveloped by heavy fog clouds which shut off our view of the earth.
 About a. m. Monday the fog cleared away and we saw we were over wild wooded country. I felt sure we must be in northern Canada, but Major Kingsbury said we were over the Adiron- dacks. I had no idea there was such wild country in New York.
 THREW OUT CLOTHING
 "'Our ballast supply was getting very low. In order to stay up. we threw out all our extra clothing, including over coats and sweaters. At 10.90 a, m. Mon day we saw big mountain ahead of us. It was about 4,000 fet high land it's peak was almost on a level with ouf course. We passed over it like a shot and on the other side of it we found there was a sort of air suction that checked our progress.
 "'We never got out of that valley. We crossed the bay of Lake Gorge and were again confronted by a mountain. This was Tongue Mountain, better known in it's vicinity as Five-Mile Mountain II is about 5000 feet high and we couldn't get over it, though we threw out all of our "grub'.. and equipment except our scientific instruments.
 HIT SIDE OF MOUNTAIN
 ."'We landed about half way up the side of this mountain in thick timber There was an awful smash when he hit the side of the mountain Major Kings burys ankle was slightly sprained, but I was not hurt. The balloon was badly damaged.
 "Our landing place was about mile from a logging camp. We got lumber men to help us. It took them three days to chop a road mile and quarter long through the timber so that we could get team in to haul the balloon |. it to the camp. There it was put on truck and was taken to Bolton Landing on Lake George. From there we took boat to the town of Lake George, where we got a train.
 There was a funny little incident on the boat A lady passenger said to me: Why did you fire shot when you were landing?" I told her we had no firearms and did not fire a shot. Then that hal cha rJ was the explosion of water can which we had dropped into the bay. It was a five-gallon can and it contained about two gallons of water when we dropped itY over It fell about 2,O0e feet, and when it hit the surface of the water the com- pression of the air inside the can caused it to explode with a noise like gum
 "The race was won by Lieutenant De Mayter, a Belgian. in the balloon Bel gica, which also landed ip New York state after travelling about HOO miles.