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Recovered to-day from their thrilling experience in a balloon that came near going out to sea before landing at Matawan, N. J., Alan R. Hawley of this city, and Arthur T. Atherholt went back to Phila-delphia. The balloon, called the Initial, is owed by A. N. Chandler, a broker, and when it started from Philadelphia yester-day it shot up to a height of 7,000 feet and rushed north at a terrific rate, at times as fast as a mile a minute.
The balloon has a capacity of 35,000 cubic feet, and when it once reached an altitude of 12,000 feet it came near carrying the aeronauts out to sea. As it was, they landed in a creek and both were more or less bruised. This is the sixth ascension for Hawley, who is qualifying for the inter-national balloon races to be held at St. Louis next October.
Mr. Atherholt said after the trip: "It was the most sensational ascension Hawley and I ever made. First we went up to a prodigious height and found that the wind was blowing a gale. It was bearing us straight to New York at the rate of forty or fifty miles an hour and we decided to try to break the record. We went rushing along at express speed until suddenly something atmospheric occurred and we went shooting up to a higher level. Soon we saw the sea off to the east. Then we dropped into the creek."

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MILE-A-MINUTE RIDE IN BALLOON PLEASED BROKER
Amateur Aeronaut Hawley Declares He Enjoyed Terrible Trip.
"It was a good ride, all but the finish," said Alan R. Hawley, the wealthy stock broker, of No. 20 Broad street, whose home is at No. 22 East Seventy-sixth street, in telling to-day of his mile-a-minute trip in the balloon Initial with Arthur T. Athenholt, a rich Philadelphian. The reached altitude of about 12,000 feet.
Starting from Philadelphia yesterday afternoon, they intended making a quick run to this city, when they were caught by an easterly current of air which blew with hurricane force after passing over New Brunswick, N. J. The two aeronauts estimated that the velocity of the wind was eighty-five miles an hour, and they feared that if they remained among the clouds they would be carried far out to sea. Then they decided to cut the journey short, Before they could reach the earth, however, they had travelled many miles.
When they got close to the ground their big balloon was whirling through space as though it had been shot like a catapult, and finally the car splashed into a creek near Matawani, N. J., and the two men had to scramble from the water, losing the records that had been made while the baloon was flying in the clouds at a speed believed to have even faster than an express train.
Plaything of Fierce Winds.
The aeronauts were in the heavens just ninety-three minutes, more than fifteen minutes being consumed in manoeuvring. First the balloon shot up in the air a distance of a mile, where it was caught by the air current and carried through the sky with the swiftness of a shooting star. In a bee line the balloon covered just sixty miles from the starting point, but it is estimated that it swerved on its course and that the distance covered was about eighty miles.
This was Mr. Hawley's sixth balloon ascension, and it was the second for his companion. The Initial is an immense French balloon owned by A. M. Chandler. The bag holds 35,000 cubic feet of gas.
Apparently not the least unstrung after their nerve-racking ride, Mr. Hawley and Mr. Athenholt packed the balloon and shipped it to this city. They followed, and last night dined at the Aero Club, No, 12 Last Forty-second street. Like most amateur aeronauts, Mr. Hawley is an enthusiastic automobilist. In telling of his trip he said
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"We made the ascension at Point Breeze, Philadelphia. The start did not seem very favorable.
"We finally got aboard and when up twenty feet I told the starter to cut the rope. We shot straight up for about a mile. At this being one usually experiences an unpleasant buzzing in the ears, but for the first time I did not have the sensation.
"When we had been in the