The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-01-19
FLIGHT RECALLS
OTHER THR|LLERs
THRILLING EXPERIENCES OF
LOST BALLOONIST In OTHER
RACES .RETOLD.

New York-(By A. P)-Ayiator'
thrilling history, filed with adyen
turOuS journeys in balloon and air
plane, already contains a story paral
telling the one created by the figh1
into the frozen Businesses of northern
Canada which has focused the news.
hungry readers of the world on the
three American lieutenants who re-
Gently completed it.
In 1910 two New York airmen, Alan
R. Hawley and Augustus Post, were
lost among the untrodden wilderness
of Canada for seven days after travel
ing nearly 1900 miles through the
alp from st. Louis in the balloon
America II.
They fOated nOrtheastward for two
days and two nights, crossing over
the Great Lakes and beyond the out
posts of which are few and far be-
tween in the northland. Despairing
of finding suitable landing place,
they brought their gas bag down into
dense trees, ending a trip that won
the Gordon Bennett trophy and set a
new record for distance, and begin
ming tramp over unknown land that
dwarfed in public interest their thrill
ing experiences in the air.
Extricating themselves from the
limbs of trees entangled in their
basket, Post and Hawley tramped
along a stream and later around the
hem of lake, as the woods were in
penetrable and trackIess. For four
days and four nights they pushed
southwark, through snowstorms, rain
and stabbing cold winds, and with
little to eat. Haw1ey wrenched his
knee and the pair stopped to rest at
the first restful place they found--an
old cave.
There they prayed, exchanged con-
f1dences to be carried back by which
ever one lived If either failed to get
back home, and then took fresh
start. The next day they came upon
shovel-the first sign of civilization
they had encountered-and few
yards further tent.
They spent the night in this tent
and the next morning, going down to |
the side of a lake they pierced the air
with yells of greeting From across I
the water came reply, and then two
trappers in a canoe. The trappers |
took the afrmen down a river in ca
noes for two days until they reached |
settlement. from where
they communicated with the world
they had left, and began their trip
back to New York. They had left st.
Louis October II and the first word
came from them October 26.
A balloon trip that ended above the
North sea, was made by Captain Won
Schaeck during the 1909 Gordon Ben
nett race, which started from Berlin.
A passing steamer spied the guide
rope splashing through the water,
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coast of Norway with the rope secur-
ed to the stern of the ship and the
balloon floating overhead.
Being lost to the world was not
1ew experience to Lieutenant Walter
Hinton, one of the three lieutenants !
who recently piloted the A-559S from ]
2ockaway Air Station into Canada.
He was a pilot on the NC-4, the IA
nous naval seaplane which made the
irst transatlantic air voyage, and was
n the cockpit of that plane when It
vas lost out in the Gulf of Mexico in t
December, 1919. l
On that occasion the NC-4 left Cal t
'eston, Tex, early in the morning on /
N intended nonstop flight to Mobile,
Va. Throughout the day and the a
light and part of the following day }
he famous seaplane was unheard
rom. The government was making
arrangements to send an armada of
eaplanes and boats into the gulf to
ook for the missing craft, when a
ado message from 1t was picked up
n New Orleans.
The NC-4 reported it was forced
. come down by. 1ow-hanging clouds
If the southeastern coast Of LOuisi-
na When on the water the wireless
n the plane was not powerful enough L
} carry many miles and communi-
alton was impossible until the craft
0ok to the air again the following
fternoon.