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[[?]] New York 
2 Jan - 1907

AERONAUTS LOST FOR HOURS IN AIR

Messrs. McCoy and Hawley Long Missing After 
Ascension from St. Louis. 

LAND SAFETY IN ILLINOIS

Voyage of More Than Eighty Miles Made Without Mishap Above the Clouds. 

[SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD.]
St. Louis. Mo., Tuesday. - Alan R. Hawley, aeronaut, and J. C. McCoy, pilot, ascended on the balloon L'Orient at half-past one o'clock this afternoon and floated away toward the northwest. At ten o'clock to-night no word had come from them, and the officials of the Aero Club of America were nonplussed, though they expressed no sign of apprehension. Late tonight, however, word was received that the Orient had safely landed at Cliffdale, Ill. 

The landing was made at half-past four o'clock this afternoon, when the balloon had sailed eight-six miles from St. Louis. 

Messrs. McCoy and Hawley said they enjoyed the sail through the air. The temperature was pleasant, about 40 degrees. The highest altitude was 2,100 feet above the clouds. They were out of sight of land most of the time.

Messrs. Hawley and McCoy were to visit the nearest telegraph office after landing and send word immediately to headquarters here. The balloon drifted toward St. Charles, Mo., but nothing was seen of it there. 

Telegrams were sent to Herrin, Ill., Orchard and Hermann Farm, Mo.; Warrenton and surrounding points to look out for the balloon, but nothing was heard of it at any of these places. It was feared the balloon had descended in either the Missouri or Mississippi River, in which case both aeronauts would have been in danger of drowning, but no such fear was entertained by the Aero Club officials. 

A large crowed assembled to witness the ascension in the coal yards of the Laclede Gas Light Company, at Second and Rutger streets. When the guy ropes were released the 35,000 cubic foot balloon rose gracefully into the air. There was not a single mishap to mar the ascension.

After a photograph had been taken the ballon was released at a signal from the aeronaut. It rose straight into the air for a height estimated at 1,000 feet. A large number of observers saw the big bag as it drifted toward the West. 

Owing to the length of time required in making preparations for sending up the first balloon it was decided not to try to send up the second balloon.

When L'Orient was almost inflated David R. Francis, accompanied by L. D. Dozier, president of the St. Louis Aero Club, appeared. The assistants who were scheduled to make the ascensions offered to withdraw in favor of the newcomers. Mr. Dozier declared he intended to make his first ascent in his own balloon. Mr. Francis declined to make the ascension on the ground that his wife would not let him.

The ascension was in the nature of a preliminary trial. The committee has already decided that St. Louis can supply gas of the proper quality, and announced last night that the great international races would be sailed from St. Louis in the week of October 1. 

So pleased was the committee with conditions in St. Louis favoring aeronautics that it was decided not to visit other cities. Courtland F. Bishop is chairman of the committee, which includes August Post, Alan R. Hawley, J. C. McCoy, Frank S. Lahm and Leo Stevens. They were unanimous in their selection of St. Louis. 

[?] Plant Industry, Favors Experimental Gardens. 

Government is Paying Out $150,000 Annually in Indiscriminate Distribution. 

PLEASES FARMERS. 

ations Would be Self-Supporting, Excepting the Salaries of Federal Experts. 

The Republic Bureau, Wyatt Building, 14th and F Streets. 

Washington, Dec. 31. - To do away with "free-seed graft" and establish instead a large number of experimental ms in the Southwest and throughout country is the plan of Beverly T. Galloway, Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, and William J. Spillman, Chief of the Division Farm Management.

The plan is a broad, comprehensive one, ing for its aim the establishment of "model farm" in every congressional district, and, ultimately, in every county of the United States. In the opinion department officials, it would serve ev purpose of the free, indiscriminate distribution of seed, and, in addition, give county vastly more than could ever be hoped from that practice.

e free distribution of common garden which comes into direct competition the seed men of the country, and against which a growing fight has been at each successive congressional session costs the Government about $150,000 year. The progressive farmers of the country apparently are opposed to this of graft, preferring to purchase seed they want it, unless it be something and new, and, therefore, hard to obtain. With the $150,000 appropriated for purpose, the Division of Farm Management could employ 100 men at an average salary of $1,500 and send two ex- into every State and Territory of

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