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1907 June 13 Thursday at Baddeck 109 World New York 23 Ap- 1907 RICH BROKER IN MILE-A-MINUTE RIDE IN AIR. Alan K. Hawley and Arthur T. Atherhold, Aero Club Men, Make Sensational Trip in Balloon Initial. AT ONE TIME 12,000 FEET HIGH; LAND IN CREEK Started from Philadelphia——Hurricane threatened to Sweep them to Sea. Nearly 12,000 feet high among the clouds and whirling through the air at times faster than a mile a minute, Alan R. Hawley, a wealthy stock broker of No.20 Broad street and living at No. 22 East Seventy-sixth street, with Arthur T. Athenholt, a rich Philadelphian, made a sensational balloon flight yesterday. They started from Philadelphia, intending to make a quick trip to this city. They ran into an easterly current of air which blew with hurricane force after passing New Brunswick, N.J. The velocity of the wind they estimated at 83 miles an hour. They feared if they remained among the clouds, that they would be swept far out over the Atlantic Ocean. So they decided to cut the journey short. Land in Matawan Creek. They travelled many miles, however, before they reached the earth and then they landed in a creek near Matawan, N.J. Both men were bumped and jostled about severely and emerged from the creek very wet, but extremely happy. Their only regret was that records which they had made while the balloon was flying far above the earth at a speed greater than the fastest express train were lost in the creek. Their flight from start to finish lasted ninety-three minutes, more than fifteen minutes being spent in maneuvering for a landing. In a bee line the landing [[?]] was sixty miles from the starting [[cut off] Herald Boston 24 Ap 1907. HEADS AERONAUT SCHOOL. WASHINGTON, D.C., April 23, 1907. Consul Thomas H. Norton reports that Paul Spiegel, a textile manufacturer, is to be the director of the new Aeronautic school, which will be established at Chemnitz, Saxony, May 1., Herr Spiegel has made 6000 ascents. There have been eight applications for entrance to the school. The tuition is $149 a year. Herald Washington D.C. 24 Ap - 1907 FAST TRIP IN BALLOON. Philadelphia Aeronauts Narrowly Escape Going to Sea New York, April 23——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 Philadelphia. The balloon, called the Initial, is owned by A. N. Chandler, a broker, and when it started from Philadelphia yesterday 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 international 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 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 [[?]]. Then we dropped into the creek." Staats Zeitung New York 24 Ap - 1907 Der erste regelmäßige Luftschifffahrtverkehr. Zwei New Yorker Kapitalisten wollen zwischen Fort George und Coney Island, den beiden großen Vergnügungsparks der New Yorker, einen regelmäßigen Luftschifffahrtsverkehr einrichten. Die drei vorgesehenen Landungsstationen sind bereits in Arbeit. Eine Station wird an der Ecke des Broadway und der 29. Straße eine Fahrtunterbrechung mitten über der Stadt gestatten; ein riesiger Eisenthurm, mit Palmgärten, Restaurants und Konzertkiosks wird die die Landungsstelle bilden, Elevatoren werden die Fahrgäste zur Gondel des Luftschiffs bringen. Die Fahrten zwischen Fort George und Coney Island können jeden Tag stattfinden, ausgenommen vielleicht die Zeit der schweren Stürme; indes ist möglich, daß auch gegenüber diesen Witterungsunbilden die Luftschifffahrt aufrecht erhalten werden kann. Die ganze Fahrt, eingerechnet den 20 Minuten berechneten Aufenthalt an der Broadway-Landunsstelle, wird nicht mehr als eine Stunde beanspruchen. Der Korrsespondent hat diese Weisheit aus einem jender phantasitischen Artikel geschöpft, die erfinderische Köpfe zum Ausfüllen der endlosen Spalten der Sonntagsblätter zusammenbrauen. Was da als eine Phantasie oder als Zukunftsmusik vorgeführt wurde, das hat der Korrespondent als baare Münze genommen und prompt nach drüben geschickt. Das Luftschiffprojekt des ingeniösen Fred. Thompson von Luna Park und Wonderland in Fort George würde sicherlich zur Ausführung kommen, wenn er eine kleine, ganz kleine Schwierigkeit aus dem Weg räumen könnte .... wenn er die dazu nöthigen lenkbaren Luftschiffe beschaffen könnte. Wie gesagt, liebe (r) "B. B.", alle diese Albernheiten, die ausnahmsweise sogar sehr harmloser Natur sind, lohnen nicht das geringste Partikelchen Galle. Lächeln wir darüber, lächeln wir, aber thun wir jenen Rindfleischproduzenten nicht die Ehre an, daß wir uns darüber ärgern! H.R.H.
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