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Show BACK FROM TilElf DS Hawley and Post of America Balloon in Chicoutimi Chlcoutiml. Quelle. Oct. 27. Alan R. Hawley and Augustus Post, the new h olders of the world's chanipi. n-shlp. n-shlp. showed few ill effects today ( the thrilling experiences which had been theirs blue,. tby left St. Iyiul nine davi ago in the America II. They were fat'jiueJ but the trip had b- e n thoroughly wo:th while, they s:ild "Tell our friends that we are well and very, very happy." ays t.io mes-which mes-which they t-ent from ihelr reruns In the small, but up-to-date hotel which In the hoaM of the Z. Inhabitant-, of Chlcoutiml. The two aeronauts reacliej here a' In o'clock lat n:ht and retired shortly short-ly before m!droi,Tit - as sin after the'r arrival a they could get away from the !mp"rtun!t!e of a crowd of welcoming wel-coming and corr. tat ulat Inc cllleiis. They had driven forty miles over lh- ri.ugh coutiry from St. Ambrnlse, and r tired to the bone, as one of ilouii expressed It. A rlnod of tel. grams from the 1'nlt-ed 1'nlt-ed States, which ana ted tum on their arrival, went unancweied and lor the i it t part unread until mrrn-Inc. mrrn-Inc. Their night's rest was liound to be brief at th- bit. for their train over the ijiieliec and Lake St. John whs sctnduled to leave at 7.'l" o'clock Id the morning and, if thev nilsied this, the) mut wait until evening. Both air-men agn ed that the most welcome slcht in all Chlcoutiml on their nnival was the bath-lu'i In their rooms at the hotel. This was a luxury lux-ury which they had be' n denied for nine days. And every one of the nine days had been 3;,rrif. arduously. Four of the nlchts had been passed out of doors with the hard (jr. .und for a bed and their nrmv blankets for cover Their bailor. n is rtlll .'it Lake Di Blanc '). Snble. thU being the title of the town-ship where they lanied It Is bcllev. d 'hat Jos Pednau l and Joseph Slmrnd. the two trappers who brought the b;i!Jo nists in a bark canoe ca-noe to St. Ambrnlse. w 11 go back and ne what can be done to get the bi,' balloon from Its cac he on the side of j the mountain to the railroad here. J This will not be an easy task. Me'-rs. llavviev and Post landed II hours lifter their departure from St. 1 mls. The balloon basket, touched eait'u at ri ::!." o'clock i.n the afternoon of the Unh. They probably fb-w In all. about l.t.Ou miles, iilthough the direct di-rect distance Izetwecn the two peilnt ii whlcn the Internet c.tial race Is de cided s only 1 ..'!."'! miles. This would make their avenge rate of progress ;ibont ''' mil' s an hour. Leaving bore this inorriing. Mefts. 1 law by and Post will nacn QuebrT. shortly belore o'clock this evening. Rubber Balloons Win. St. I.ouls. Oct. 27. Elated by Alan K. Haw lev and Augustus Post winning win-ning the International balloon race, the Aero club of St. Iitlls governors ileclded today to bid again for th; next rac-. I.ewb- Splndler, now In Canada, was advi-ed io organize If Ksslble an expedition ex-pedition to re-cue the balloon America Ameri-ca II. Rubber gas bags were victorious victori-ous over the vumbrli . The America II. Iiii-sehl'-rf 11 and Germanla. the lendipg prize winners, were made of nil her. The three balloons whbh eaiiie deevn the day following the start bad bags of cambric. |