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...other balloon came down in Pennsylvania. Seven others descended across the broad expanse of upper New York. After 36 hours, all but two had been heard from: Navy No. 1, piloted by Lieut. Thomas G. W. Settle and Ensign Wilfred Bushnell; and Detroit Times, piloted by Arthur G. Schlosser and E. J. Hill. Far beyond the marks of any of the others, Navy 1 came to earth, nearly 43 hours after starting, at Canavoy, Prince Edward Island. More hours passed, with the Detroit Times no man on earth knew where...
...various points in the South, frenzied blackamoors scuttled in from fields to report balloons overhead. Three more bags dropped safely the second day. Farthest South (the race was for distance) finally dropped the Detroit, piloted by R. C. Hill and A. G. Schlosser, having floated some 800 miles. (Frenchman Bennaime's 1,358-mile float from Stuttgart to Moscow in 1920 remains the record). The Goodyear VI placed second, W. T. Van Orman piloting...
Nikolai Lenin: "From Prague it was reported that Professor Schlosser, chief surgeon of the German University there, had been asked to go to Moscow to perform an operation on me for brain tumor...