Show LONG JOURNEY JOURNEYS S UGH AIR I U us us S Signal Corps Balloon Es Establishes Establishes New Record and Wins Lahm Cup f Pittsburg Pa Oct 19 A message 4 received by the Associated Press from Fairmont W Va saps saya sa s st 4 A blue light far above town was as t 4 distinguished shortly after 1 1 o clock 4 this morning The light ight is rapidly 4 i traveling eastward It is believed here that It Is the army anny balloon if which started from St Louis Luis Wednes Wednesday day evening i 44 4 I u 44 4 H H t H i St Louis Louth Oct through the atmosphere at a speed roughly estimated ed edat at 23 22 miles an hour the United States sig signal nal corps balloon No 10 tn In which Aero Aeronauts auts J C McCoy and Charles de do F Chandler of the United States sig signal signal I nal corps ascended here Mast f last evening passed over Illinois and Indiana last night and across Ohio today toda and at night nightfall nightfall nightfall fall was apparently about to land la d In the vicinity I of Point Pleasant W Va 3 when last ast heard from The distance covered on n a straight line is approximately miles and the voyage won for the tile aero aeronauts the Lahm cup The Lahm cup was instituted by b the Aero Acre Club of America soon after the In International races at Paris in 1906 at which Lieutenant Frank Prank Lahm won wn the tho James Gordon ordon Bennett cup for the Aero Club of ot America merIca So joyful cur were the members of the club at the victory that the cup was named amed for the pilot of the balon United States and aid it was put up by the club to be won by the aeronaut who tho traveled more than 43 EO I miles the distance traveled 1 by United Stat in the Paris races provided the start was made from Ameri Amen American American can soil Lieutenant Lahm never held the cup mid find this was the first time It was ever eer won Remained in Air All All Night When hen the ascension was made here last evening f It was the intention of the aero aeronauts to remain in the air all all night as a test of the gas to be used by br the bal hal balloons loons Joons in the international aeronautic con contests contests contests tests which begin here next week How row However Hower ever ver er considering the likelihood that they might be ba carried a long distance they went ent amply prepared for a long flight Provisions in tin cans by bya byR a R lime stacking slacking device were stored in hi the Lasket and a number of different Instruments ments for testing purposes were carried I The Tho balloon with a capacity of or cubic feet of gas was filled yesterday esterday aft afternoon afternoon afternoon j from the gas plant at Second SE Ond and Butger streets A number of members of the Aero Club of St Louis and visiting aeronauts were present when the Use ascent was as made at p m ni The balloon baBoon rose gracefully and suddenly veered as a sharp wind struck k it colliding with the timbers that supported a high coal pile in the gas plant yard The basket scraped a mo moment moment ment meat threateningly but prompt work by lw the aeronauts In throwing out some sami san sanI ballast caused the balloon to shake Itself I free tree from the coal coat pile undamaged and straight up several hundred fet Then it swept toward the northeast anil and was vas 85 soon lot lost to view In the gloom of evening Message During Flight The first report received from the aero nero aeronauts aeronauts was a message dropped near Lees Lee l burg Ohio and telegraphed by bv a finder to the Associated Press in Chicago ago The message the balloonists had dropped I at 6 a m and they the were then traveling southeast rapidly rapid 1 Later they were sen I passing over Gallipolis Ohio and bv by the middle of the afternoon they the were in West rest Virginia In the vicinity of Point Pleasant There the balloon started up the Kanawha i Valley alley aIle according to a long distance tele phone message messa e to St SI Louis and no run ther tidings had been received up to o 93 o clock tonight Members of the Inter Int r national balloon contest content conte t committee and other aeronauts here re tonight spoke of the flight with great reat enthusiasm saying t It H will establish e a memorable epoch In bal loon sailing salling |