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THURSDAY  NEW YORK EVENING JOURNAL, NOVEMBER 7, 1912.
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Oakwood Heights Aviation Field at left May. 1913.
We charged admission to see the aeroplan two days before the flights.
My first Fair engagement, Kingston. R. I.
Sept 1912.

The first time I flew onto of a half mile race track.

HERE'S A REAL HIGH FLIER CLAIMING ALTITUDE MARK
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MISS LAW SEATED IN HER AEROPLANE.

Miss Ruth Bancroft Law, sister of Henry Roadman Law, the parachute jumper, is in a peculiar quandary for an aviatrix. She feels that she has succeeded in establishing a new altitude record for women, but she cannot be certain until the Aeronautical Society reads the barograph she carried and makes public the height she reached.

Mme. Dietru, the daring French aviatrix, is credited with the present record. She climbed 3,100 feet above the surface of the earth in her biplane. This Miss Law thinks she has surpassed.

At the meet of the Aeronautical Society at Oakwood Heights, S. I., Miss Law was the cynosure of all eyes, when she announced that she was going after the altitude record her composure and daring astonished everybody. She was in the air nearly an hour and when at last she volplaned to earth experts who had watched her declared that she had undoubtedly ascended higher than 3,100 feet.

But isn't it annoying not to know whether you are really the world's champion aviatrix until a lot of fussy old scientists have leisurely learned the barograph? Miss Law says that she will set a new record before she quits anyway.

AVIATION STARS TO TAKE PART IN AIR REVIEW
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Big Meet Begins at Oakwood Heights, Staten Island, To-Day.
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RUTH B. LAW TO SEEK NEW ALTITUDE RECORD
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George Beatty Promises an Aerial Turkey Trot in His Machine While in Midair.
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With a dozen or more of the best known aviators, including Miss Ruth Bancroft Law of Providence, competing to-day in [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] of the Aeronautical [[?]] to be held at Oakwood Heights, Staten Island, many interesting competitions and exhibitions are promised. Miss Law will attempt in her Wright machine to reach a new altitude record for women. It is her ambition to soar to the height of a mile.

In addition to marking the opening of the new aviation field, the meet has been arranged as an entertainment for the officers and men of the fleet, and it is expected that hundreds of them will be present. Frank T. Coffyn, who has recovered from the injuries sustained in an automobile crash in Central Park last spring, will fly in Robert J. Collier's hydro-aero plane from Wickatunk, N. J., to Oakwood Heights. Mr. Collier, who is president of the Aeronautical Society, has loaned his machine to make this cross country flight of about thirty miles.
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An Aerial Review.
One of the features of the meet will be an aerial review, in which all the machines taking part will fly in procession. So many machines have been entered that 

READY TO FLY OVER STATEN ISLAND TO-DAY
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The Aeronautical Society this afternoon will mark with an aviation meet on Staten Island the opening of its new flying grounds at Oakwood Heights, the first within the city limits. A dozen of the leading aviators at present in the East are to fly, it is announced, and one of the features will be Miss Ruth Bancroft Law's attempt to ascend a mile in her Wright biplane, making an altitude record for women. The officers and sailors of the Atlantic fleet and the members of the Aero Club of America have all been invited to be the guests of the society.

Among those on the flying programme are Captain Thomas S. Baldwin, George W. Beatty, Harry Bingham Brown, Cecil Peoli, O. E. Williams, of Scranton, Pa.; Frederick Rodman Law, who is to jump with a parachute from Brown's biplane at a great height; Dillon Hoffman, who will demonstrate sharp shooting from an aero plane, and Frank T. Coffyn, who will fly Robert J. Collier's biplane from Wickatunk, N. J., across Raritan Bay to the Oakwood Heights grounds.

At a meeting of the Aeronautical S...?

LEAPS 2,500 FEET FROM AIRSHI
Frederick Law Lands Enhurt a Oakwood Heights Aerodrome.

The 3,000 persons who went to Oakwood Heights, Staten Island, yesterday afternoon to the opening of the acrodrome of the Aeronautical Society say some good flying, although there was little in the way of spectacular exhibitions. The Aeronautical Society, being a scientific body, discourages all freak flying.

Frederick Rodman Law, who went up as passenger with Harry Bingham Brown made a leap from a height of 2,500 feet.

Law in his descent could easily be see working for a landing away from the water. He came down about half a mile northeast of the field.

Earlier in the afternoon his sister, Miss Ruth Law, in black sating bloomers and a red sweater, made a flight of several minutes at an altitude of 600 or 700 feet.

Miss Blanche Scott, who was schedule to fly from Governors Island to Grant Tomb, failed to get a machine.

Miss Louise Steiner of Eghert ville, whit drew the lucky number for a free rid went up as passenger with George