The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-01-20
NAVAL AIRMAN
TELLS OF TRIP
Thrilling Story Of the Adventure
If the BaIIooniStS Who Were
Lost in WiIdS of Canada.
DEATH NEAR WHEN RESCUED
Lost to the World 90 Days in ALL
Wandered Four Days in the Woods
With Nothing to Feat Except the
Pigeons They Had With Them.

Pigeons They Had With Them.
Mattice, Ont.--After being lost to
the world for % days, four of which
were spent wandering in the woods,
the three navy balloonists, Lieuts.
Farrell, Hinton and Kloor arrived
hcre. Lieut.. Farrell told the following
Story of their adventures:
Lieut. Farrell's story of the flight
and wanderings of the trio begins with
the morning hours in ROckaWay naval
air station on December IL and goes
on through the flight the landing, and
up to the meeting with the Indian at
Moose Factory who saved their lives.
ut was just an ordinary balloon
hop" Farrell began. 1T was for train
ing. Hinton told me after we left
that the gas in the balloon was ten
days old, stale and impure.
Hinton called me up at about TWEEN
~ minutes to II December l3) and
told me | could come on flight if |
wanted to. No special orders are
needed We just got permission from
Commander cummings OIL lhe post
and Executive Oihcer Douglas
i am senior oiIlcef o. me liIIee'
out Kloor was in command of the
flight, as he is a balloon officer and l
am a gunhery olhcer' nave Deeh III
aviation Tor three years ana nave
flown IN every KIND OF aircraft we
lett at ! p m.
Left With Four Pigeons.
we had -FOUR pigeons, we I't ule
trSt one 90 with Il message lor me
Brooklyn navy |ard.
clinton ana MOOR had heaNN UNI
derWeuf ana uniforms uhder 'ueIf hl-
ing SUITS. had only jiIe underwear
ana the lying sun. ma" Il gFlp WIN
my UNIFORM ana some "iIIer lIi'iEs III
H. we had eight sandwiches ana wv"
therIhos bo'tIeS OF not coiI'e. None
Oh the underwear was elecIrIcai'|
heaied'
we expected 10 IAN" next morn.
ing IN upper Ne" YORK state we hau
no maps or charts except raIlroau
map OF the Cah"olah quebec central
me winch Do"z"'' " Iiou 'nLtt
clahceS 10 laIu before we uIu' we U'u
slop once ut NeIS' ~ l.
we maae laS' 10 u 'fee near d
IiI'i II "aa III WHO" ol l"riu-
mousse a man came a'ous ana we
asked MN where we We're ne IoIu
Us put ne Coulu hoI say WHAT oIS ''"n
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,. "'oo, 0''''e 70 20 VI"
>. "e o,''' '0VSe anu vent ~ "S" Gun
~ ~, i"''ieu ''iiU O'I" u',' '''7 ,,'e 'i'7i'''
we cou'u nave '"nueu at NI'a"" at
= p Ii, we So" 'I.e uGH,S ol " Dig
cl'y' but hloo' - just d NIu anu ne
wa. was eh'nuSlaSlC ABOUT d I0ns "lE"l'
we all aEreeu 'naI we ought 10 no d
uecent HlsHl' lHe'e I'"u peen ram
from "eIlS on
ne WIN" was II"'''. ny west ""'
hlSnI 1t p!e" na'u oi!" r''neu, ! mere
was no sign Oh ci'III"a'loh' huI we
'i'o"s"' II "ou'u '' an i'E''' ~ ,''
H'"I "'ll-. AZ ""H 'IEHl w ii" Oily l"'-
eSlS' me ra'H hau 'aIIned uo"n'
lheIe were 10" 'IouuS ana log'
Inc ralh stopped ut a. H. We
CeInoer lf). we ale an our 1000 uuI-
iIls lhe night we nad TWO PACKAGES
OF cigarettes ana one poN OF Matches
bul you cannon smoke III hydrogen
balloon we reaIIzed we were III pad
tiat morning
Explains Flying Technique.
Here Farrell paused to give brief
explanation of the technique of bal
loon flying
you have lot OF dependable bal
last he said. 1--WE had twenty-one
sandbags weighing thirty pounds
apiece. AT first the balloon rises with