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Show Landed at Hlllman, Mich. Distance" Ti.Vi mllffl. Condor, Trance. Jacques Faure. pi lt; K. fl. Schiiio!ck, aide. Landod at Two Illvere, WK instance U0 n I Million club, America, S lmls Von I. Hul. pilot. .1. M. O-Rellly. aldv I.andcl near Radio-, Wis. Distance "13 miles. After dispatching Lewis Spindler. the representative of the Aero club of St. Louis at Toronto to Quebec to grcft Hn-.vley and Post cn their way to New York, President A. H. Lambert Lam-bert of the local club wired the crew of the America 11. that they wore nn-! nn-! f'rnbtrdly the winner of the fifth I Jame Cordon Kennett balloon race. I The distance 1.3:,!; miles In subject ! only t-j confirmation by the war department. de-partment. Th? prize money, amounting amount-ing to ?..7r.O cash Is deposited here in the name or the Aero club of St. Louis and will he awarded as follows I upon receipt of the war department measurements. If the relative positions posi-tions are n.'t chanced; America 11.. $l.ift0: iJu-'s-.-ldorf IL.Jl.W; Cerrnan-la Cerrnan-la $1,'mmi; Helvetia ?".O0; Harburg HI.. IHAWLEY AND POST NAVE ' lltWS -RECORD NEW YORK. Oct. 'JC. Ala;! K. Ilinvley nn-1 Amrnstus Post, the aeronauts of the halloon America II.. for whom sean h had hern pros- j eciitcil in the Tamilian wills. mv safe and have eslaHivln-il a new , worhl's reei.nl for sustained flight. They traveled approximately 1..T.0 miles and -a:ue to earth in ( liieoutiiiii eomily. (leln-e. m We.l- j j n.'silay, Oct. 1!). ImiI v.-eiv not heard from until today when telegrams 1 s-nt from St. Amlnois;'. (.hiel.ec. reached New Yirk. The hnllnonists starred fmm St. Louis with nine other contestants in the international on Monday, Oct. 17. All the other l.alloons have lior-Jl reported. Two mess:i?i's trom Ilnwh-y and Pst were received in New York early tonight. One was to Win. Ilawh-y. hrolher of the aeronauts; aero-nauts; Ihe other to Samuel F. Perkins, pilot of the hallooii Dussel- dorf II.. vhicli unlil tmiicrlit had 1 n considered tiie winner. The message to .Mr. ll.-'wh'y said : "Lanih'd in wilderness week i r fifty miles north of Chh-outimi. Both well. Alan." The Perkins message ran: "Landed Pariltonka river, north Lake ( 'liilopran.'i. nineteenth All well ; relurnin'.'. Ilawl.-y. Pos(." o O LEAVE FOR GUEDCC. O C CHICOVTIML Quebec, Oft 2k O 0 Aecordln? to a .vrcs rn-lv:tl O C here. Mcifi s. lla.-. ley and Post O C lelt S-. Ami'roise, ibis e.mnty at O 01 ocleck th's after:n o-i t dilveOj O to this town It was sail th-:y O O expected to cover t'.ie distane.-; in O O about sl:c hoirs a:i 1 that tbel- O C intention was to leave by t'.ie 7 O O ( 'clock ' train t nuirow morn ng O O for Qui bcc. f5 0 occoooocrcccooo With receipt of the news there ended a search whi:h bad ome to be regarded by many as almost l.opeless, and in which th: goveramenl of this country and Canada were ind ree'ly participating. For ii'sime?. in addition addi-tion t emlss, tries sent by the Aio club of St. louls, the Aero club of America ami by Win Ilawley, the United States revenue cutter service, the sisnal corps of tr.e army, ihe Hudson Pay company and other agent.- were conducing a search, scouring the great lakes Mid making preparations for entering th? almost Impenetrable Cauad an L.res's. j Bin, PurGe Subccnbid. Clillord II Harmon, the we.iHliv amaleur aviator and aeronaut of New York, had offered .l.no to any one linding lir.wley and Posi. dead or alive, and this rum had been Increased In-creased tonight by subscription lo more than $7,000. l the Internatl'ii-ai Internatl'ii-ai aviation meet at IUlmont Park, nearly S-'.OOO was subcrib id anions the aviators this afternoon, headed Ly i.'liO pledged by Glenn H. Curtis Young Perk us, who accompanied Lieutenant Hans Gcricke in the bus-seldorf. bus-seldorf. conceded as soon as he received re-ceived ihe telegram from I lav. ley an I , Prst, that he and the German had I lost firs', place lo the New Yorkers. ' Perkins has estimated the dl.-dance tiaveled In' the Dorsseblort at 1.210 miles. j Congratulates Winners. j He was overjoyed at hearing from his long lost rivals and fj iio ly dispatched dis-patched to St. Ambrolse with inslrue- ; t:ons to lorward. th's message .f con- ! gra'ula'Jon to Ilawley and Pet.: j "Ind 'cations are th::t yon bnve broken the world's record lor vustuin- I liight in a bulletin. Pl.-a.-e areept my siiiec resi congratnlaii . ns on voin" skill. You are the only ones I would 1 tie glad to see win outside myself I know from my own experience what you must have risked lo ma!;? such a trip." Brother Shouts With Glee, William shouted with el.iti.n when; he lieat d of hA brother's suc cess and ; safety. For J wn-k he hud been i1. .1 lo- a constant strain ami had l on in bo. irlv communication v.eii points in Cm n ad a lrm which lie i:c . ,'t to le- ctdve ne..s oi a k'nding. As lb.- out-leck out-leck giew less b'd el'ul day by r,:y bis an.i:,ty berrime r.rintif. but liroi,;;h it all he did not !o.-o f.iitii in b.is brotbi r s ability to conic tliroug'i I'.llve. He Lilt! SMlt .1. II. Pope ,l;nl Kd- iiitind Stratton to Ottawa o cany on the search, but he nefficl them tonight to-night lI the ha;ipy eiid.ng All Sorts o Prophecies. ! The Ametlcai II. was l.i-t r-pt.rt.e I passing oyer M-.'pb? t'S'.v. ?M h , cn Oct IS Sky g' -t r- ;.',ee tn ret the n:t':ic of tin- b ilioou, ini ,.'",er di ; all trace h-r was lo-t. AH sorts pi (-til.i-cii s v.eio ic.-d -, but the main c: Mention was that t!.-v I lni.o . in an inaccessible. rcglo:) early lil v.ek in tact they dhl r.nd w-re unable to ra.ike their way to civib.a Hon. 'I hose who took Ihe gloomier view weie inclined to think a the ..y passed that the nun nal iv-risbed trom cold sn.l imiiger. Tiie cu'.lo: v. as made ilarker by the sugcsfon of idowning. a late thoi.xi.t not undke- ( ly by tin' l liidlng of a baPoon barkei ( on the shores of lyil.c SuperL-r. near j Point Arthur, Ont.. today. ; Put the basket wtis not the Ainri- j fa's as was shown by later developments. develop-ments. ! Post's Story of the Trip. i CHICOPTLMI. que. Oct. -2C. -"Wo ' 1 ad a beautiful trip " said Mr. Pest "We crossed Lake Michigan and Lake Huron and followed 1 should Judge to be the route of the proposed Oeorglan May' canal r.nd if you ask me. there is water enough In that section of the etuntry, not only to suit the canal, but to float all the ships In the world "Then v.e crossed the Ottawa and floated over a river, forests of northern north-ern (juehec, passing over innumerable innumera-ble lakes and rivers. The country below us always was densely wooded. , Finally o.i Wednesday morning we' o :v I hat we were noith of lake St. I olin nnd going wei) and we ha 1 hopes 'rat we would be able to cont'nu? Il;e tiln until we struck the Lnbmlor coast. Landed cn Mountain Side. 'Tnojrtniialr-ly, about o o'clock on Wednesday eftcrnoon the pith a itoiiti came i. ii ;md t was necessary to make a limine.. We picked out n iiiounltim ide at an elevation of about ljllO fee. "Tb!s was at ::4T, pin. It was mar nightfall ;in 1 wc kn-w that we were sittk-m-n. v.e e'eciib'd lu pass U.e wight i.i the bnsket of ihe ball. ion. ' The next im'.i'.iing we started for civilization lvraiiing south We hrd three days of sticr.uous exereite w;!h no ivoie to e;it than was absolutely necessary as v.e had tn carry all our food as veil us the Idanhe's t, cover us at night, and we needed tho-e hiankets badly for wc had two snowstorms snow-storms on the way. Reached Tr.ippir'c Camp. "On tae fourth day we ioii.id the camp of lack Matthia;, a trapper. I'nlorttniiti ly be was away from Inme. We. however, played there and enjoyed Go Jiuspita!i,y nl his hut for a day of much nveoV 1 rest. Then lour French Canadim trappers turned up and I ke, good fellow., brought us out by canoe to St Ain-hio!?- Wherc we arrived ibis alter-no.' alter-no.' n. "As near as we can figure our landing land-ing place was about r.S miles north of Chko'.ulnii. There, is a rather large lake where we landed. Lake P'srocama, We km led between live and e gkt miles n ith. Twa smaller lakes wire a!-o i.isyud by us a we made our way thiO'igh Ihe woods. The coun'ry there i-j.very rough nnd cur travel was necessarily slow and arduous in the extreme as there were r:o tiolls we cc.J'd fol'QW Did Not Suffer Hardships. "The b:;sh waj very dense and we lad a hard time fighting our way through, but did not snfier any very si ?re hardships." The Associated Press coi respond end was the first to Inform Mr. Post that the America II. probably win tbe invi isp.itcd winner of the Gordon P.onnetl cup. The .sky voyagers did i. i tee any of tlv other balloons in the drii'i eat.v.vrr.l ,acro.-s nor'horn Qurb.c as they ;t - -. I tarliier north titan either the 1 e.isrehjoi i or tier-m tier-m niia. Mr. Pest lib! not appear to be ci eatly excited ovn . hi e)i--'i i. noes ;'tii t-howed m-.ieii tnoie Inrerest in the late ol Walter V oilman, iii'piirlng eagerly a to bow h ? had got on in h:s ntienipt to cross fli A'lanlic. He w?is d sappoLitc-.J tnat the attempt bad pi o-. n a fail-ire. Mes, , -, post and Ilawley wi'l k-av lor Quebec Tlvirsday morning. Announces News First. ST I Ol'l -J. ( ict. : Th--- Assoilate.l Press v a Hi., tirsi t- ariKignce I'c-re ihe saf- L.n.ihig of .hss-s. Ilns ey an! Pest in ihe bal'o-n Ametba II on the IVr'b'-nka river. (Jivine. a . ! ar-'i today G neial rt'.io'rinc ronowcd r;imng he local a -iotiatdle i! eiith-, si i.-ts an 1 A. !l. I tin b.--t, president, c i le I a special spe-cial r."eting of th" Aero eluli board, of ge.- rnois t nig'-.t for the purpuje of lluarin di..t;,itres L. D. D'jzier. u - of the members of the route ;j co-e Til . 1 1 , o' t': ill T- inl or al r.-s -id t'ten wr-s n- lof' t In !'! n!r.r! tha- Hawl-v Pi-d t'" t h-.fl sT.b'h.'o.d p i e in -r' a'.de wr.ijd". rrc r(; fo ? :l.;r.i He !- a eh se f':i 'nl c-: bri' a-rjnaiit'' aad was il.-TPi.iJljl.r-ly n'eased with llu n ws that thv v i re ,-afe. i Mr. D si',- c r.j.-d t'n- opinion t'n-U tii-- Am":ici II. nvi-t nave cov- eied ii i .ii i y l.oici icpes ia less than twcioy i mi hours b.-cau? ' the bal- ' l"ou v.n last snok.-n near T notunson-v notunson-v Hie. Mb it.. Tin s lay aMcmooii at 4 "il ociock. Dietances Made By Balloons. ST. LOl'IS. Oct. I''---ollowing the i iir noancymcn'. ihai Alan U. Hawl-?y I 'ind Augustus P.s' had landed safely i In the balloon America II.. north of Lake St. John. Que., the two St Louis ( members of the international rife coiiiinisi loner A. Ii. Lambert and L. D. Do.ler. tonight gave out the olTlcl.l distances male' by the bilkons as lollow.s: America II, American. Man R. Haw-lev, Haw-lev, pilot, Aiig'is;us Post, aide Land- i ci at Lake Tshishtldama. near Pt-ri-bonka. Que. Distance ." miles Dusseldorf II . German Hans Ger-icke. Ger-icke. pilot; S. p. Perkins, aide. Land ed at KiskLink. Que. 12:io miles. Germania GeriiKtii Hugo Von Aber-cion. Aber-cion. pilot; August Ulanckortz, aide Landed at Coocoocache. Que. Distance 1 ,1 fn mlk-s. Helevetia, Switzerland. Theodore Srhiirck pilot; A. Annbruster. aide, landed at Villo Marie, Que. Distance i,ru miles Harbiirg Ilf.. German., Lieutenant Vest, pi 'or, . p. Ass'mann, aide. Landed in Lake Xlpisslnp, Ont Distance Dis-tance 7:'." miles. Azure a Swl'zerlanJ, Kmil Messner pilot. Leon Glradudaii, able. Landed near P.iscotasing, Out Distance 77 mibs. Isle De France. Prance. Alfred Le Plane, pilot, Wallet Pe Mimn. aide, landed itt Pogaiuasing. Ont- Dlatunce 7i." miles. j St lxtnls. No. t, American H. K. Honeywell, pilot, J W Tolland, aide. |