Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-12
Farrell and Hinton Have
Breakfast Together-Re-
gret Alteration.
TO LEAVE FOR TORONTO
LATE THIS AFTERNOON
Big Reception Awaits Heroes in
Canadian City-Now Guests
of Rail Officials.

today announced it had called of
the Official banquet to the three
American naval baIloOnist~, in
view of the Incident at Mattice yes
terday, when Lieut.. Farrell knock
ed Lieut.. Hinton down because OF
letter Hinton had written home.
MAT"r1CE, Ontario. January L.
United States Naval Lieuts. Stephen
Farrell. A. l.. Kloor and Walter Hin
ton, refreshed by their first nights
sleep in complete comfort since setting
out from the frozen Hudson Bay
cember IA after Il hazardous balloon
flight from RockaWay. n. y, today
enjoyed this trading posts hospitality.
preparatory to their departure late
this afternoon for Toronto.
They were guests of officials Of the
Canadian National railway. who pro-
vided a private car in which they
spent the night and in which they will
travel to Toronto.
Forget Hard Feelings.
To all outward appearance. the bitter
dispute tnat arose between Lieuts.
Farrell and Hinton shortly after their
arrival here yesterday, which culmi-
sent his fellow air man spraWlins
over a table in the home Of II. T..
Williamson, had been settled today.
The aerOnautS rose early. mad break
fast together i'll their private car and
all regretted the incident that marred
their historic adventure. Both Far
rell and Hinton We're reticent today
rt.pa riding o recurrence
The alteration arose over letter
purported to have been written by
Hinton to his wife from Moose Fac
tory, where they first found succor
after wandering through the wilder
ness for four days, subsistlnS on Two
carrier pigeons and caribou moss. In
the letter. published by New YORK
newspaper. Hinton is alleged to have
written that Farrell. exhausted from
the rigorous wandering, pleaded. with
his two 'companions~-to kill him .Rnd
cat his body to enable them TO get
back to civilization.
Farrell charged his companions
with "double-crossing" him, saying
all had agreed that their letters
should not be published. Hinton's re-
fusal to retract was the Immediate
cause for Farrell's blow. Newspaper
correspondents interfered and sepa-
rated them.
Claiming that he had been double
crossed in regard to the writing OF
letters for publication. Farrell said:
Il wrote a letter to Frank Bent.
commissioner Of contracts of New
York city, and he (Hinton) asked me
to write on it that it was not to be
published.
He added that Bent was an intimate
friend and evidently had done as ne
requested He said he thought Hinton
and Kloor wrote their letters under
the same agreement.
Lieut.. Farrell said last night that
there was great deal of clubbing
among his companions and himself
during the three days they were iost
in the woods above Moose Factory.
He claimed he was in better physi-
cal condition than either of his com
rades. and at night he would lie on
the exposed side of Hinton to keep
him warm.
GAS a matter of fact Farrell said.
ct could have licked both of them,
and could do it now. in this room
Had Much to Live For.
Farrell said he held no grudge
against kloor, who during the day in
the bush, he said. had remarked that
too much to live for.
Relaxed from their first nights real
sleep after nearly month OF hard
ship. however. the fellow adventures
today apparently tried to forget their
difrerences and began to think of
the recep ption planned by the Toronto
Rotary Club upon their arrival there
and of their ultimate arrival in Rock
away on Friday.
All three today were some what
taciturn regarding their their four days .rs
wilds and before they finally sighted
Tom Mark, the Cree Indian. who led
them to the little Hudson Bay Com
pany's trading post at Moose Factory
Lieut.. Farrell. however. outlined their
hardships to the Correspondents; TELL
ing how they zigzagged through the
wilderness. On the second day, after
the barking Of dog caused them
TO descend. he said: Eve were be-
ginning to think that dog bark propo-
sition was rather phoney.
night they could not sleep. he said,
except Kloor, who slept SO soundiy
and 40 close to the fire he burned his
f1ying boots" They were beginning
to become desperate. he said. by the
time they sighted the indian, VINO
started to fee He became more COM
municative, however, when kloor gave
him a dollar.
Started ON Simple Test.
Adventure of a kind rarely known
10 humans of a humdrum world be-
fell the three in the performance of
simple Navy duty, a test flight in the
routine of general department orders.
to test air currents among the clouds
above their home station at Rock
away. n. 7.
The officers set out in free balloon
which "let go" about noon. December
13 Slowly it gathered headway and
pointed up New York state. increas-
ing it's rate of travel until night
found it in the path of a driving
storm. which swept it into a desperate
race with death that did not end until
today-twenty-n days later-when n
the men reached the railhead and an
omen road to civilization here.
Early in the afternoon OF Decem.
ber Ii, after a wild nights ride in
the little storm-tossed basket of their
balloon, Farrell, Hinton and Kloor
landed. wearied, their rations gone
and in a snOw-blanketed forest of A
country unknown to them-face to
face with all the perils Of the winter
in northern wilds.
Most Terrible Adventure.
On December IS the balloonists
reached Moose Factory. northern
Hudson Bay trading post. within
striking distance of the Canadian
Transcontinental railway. and the
route home. The nearest telegraph
ofice was ninety. miles away. 1t took
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