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[[image]] MISS LATOURETTE, TO LEFT, AND MISS LAW, READY TO START SUNDAY AT OAKWOOD HEIGHTS. FLIGHT A SUCCESS WINNER OF STATEN ISLANDER COUPON CONTEST PROVES BRAVE AVIATRESS. Ten-Minute Flight Made by Miss Ruth Law with Miss Florence E. Latourette as a Passenger at the Oakwood Park Aviation Field - Weather Was Far From Perfect for Ascent, But the Ladies Were Undaunted. While the weather was far from perfect there was a large gathering of Staten Islanders and others interested in aviation at Oakwood Park Sunday afternon. The Staten Islanders were especially attracted by the fact that Miss Florence E. Latourette, who won The Staten Islander contest made a flight with Ruth Bancroft Law, the popular aviatress. Among them was a large delegation of the members of the Richmond S. and D. Club, led by Miss Loretta Pfaff. Miss Loretourette is a prominent and active member of this club, and her friends were an hand to cheer her ascension and welcome her return to terra firma. The Staten Islander special, driven by William P. Tiernan, of the Reliance garage, left the "skyscraper" at St. George at 2 o'clock, arriving at the aviation park in ample time. All preparations had been made for the arial [[?]] at 3 o'clock, the appointed hour, but a downfall of rain which lasted for some time caused a postponement. Time to Go Up. Just as soon as there came a break in the storm, however, Miss Law undaunted by the weather and wing, ran out her bi-plane and Miss Latourette, showing hardly less bravery than did the experienced aviatress, took her seat and a pretty and graceful ascent was made. The aeroplane was in the air for nearly ten minutes and at one time reached an altitude of nearly a thousand feet. When they returned to earth Miss Latourette was showered with the congratulations that she had enjoyed her first trip in the air immensely. "Did you talk?" was one of the hundreds of questions asked concerning her feelings while in the air. "There's nothing to that not able to talk business in an aeroplane," she answered. "I could talk all I wanted to, but of course I did not want to annoy miss Law with too much chaff." "Oh! Miss Latourette can talk alright," said one of her friends within hearing distance." To this remark Miss Latourette gave answer with a cheerful smile. Souvenir from Miss Law. Miss Latourette yesterday received through The Staten Islander a souvenir from Miss Law, reading as follows: CERTIFICATE OF FLIGHT. This is to certify that Miss Florence E. Latourette made flight as passenger in my aeroplane on November 17, 1912, at Oakwood Heights, Staten Island. N.P. (Signed) Ruth Bancroft Law, Aviatress To the left of the certificate is a picture of Miss Law, seated in her aeroplane. Miss Latourette will have the certificate framed, so that in years to come, when she travels with her husband and children and grandchildren by air route, she will have something memorable to show for her first flight by aeroplane. Everybody Invited to Fly. Miss Ruth Law is at the aviation grounds every day, taking people up in the air on very reasonable terms. If you have any desire to take an exhilarating flight, she will be pleased to serve you. [[image]] SNAPE DAFFER MISS LAW HAD MADE A PERFECTLY SAFE LANDING. [[image]] GOING UP AT OAK WOOD HEIGHTS. AVIATOR IN SMASH; GIRL WELL-WISHER. Pawtucket Crowd So Dense Jack McGee Is Forced Against a Tree. (Special to The World.) PAWTUCKET, R.I., Aug. 26 - The right lower wing of Aviator Hack McGee's biplane struck a small tree that loomed up out of the dense crowd that was tardily falling back for his getaway for Newport shortly after noon to-day and was smashed. Aided by Aviator Harry Walte, he is repairing the damage to-night preparatory to flying to Newport to-morrow morning to carry some of Mrs. Belmont's guests home in his aeroplane after dinner. McGee will hand Mrs. Belmont a message relating to the woman suffrage movement from Mrs. Thomas Pelham Curtis of Boston. Last evening McGee was driven out to sea by a thirty-mile wind after leaving Cliftondale, Mass., for Newport, and darkness compelling him to alight here. At noon the aviator started out for Newport, but the crowd prevented escaped injury by falling flat on the ground. McGee will be in Newport all week, making daily flights and, it is reported, carrying passengers for a fee. Eleonora Sears and Mrs. Baldwin Cass, a society fencing instructor, intend to go up. As McGee was starting on his flight from Boston yesterday Miss Ruth Law, daughter of Rodman Law, a New York parachute jumper, bade him goodby and good luek. She is studying aviation at the Atwood school of aviation. WOMAN AVIATOR TO MAKE DEBUT AT STATEN ISLAND Miss Ruth Law, Sister of Parachute Jumper, Blames Operators for Airship Deaths. THINKS MACHINE ONLY SMALL PART OF FLYING Recklessness and Carelessness Generally the Cause of Fatalities, She says. Miss Ruth Bancroft Law will make her debut at the Aeronautical Society's aviation grounds, Oakwood Heights, Staten Island, on October 12 (Columbus Day). MIss Law has agreed to take part in the Staten Island flying tournament, and intends to demonstrate that the aeroplane is no a dangerous vehicle for women to operate. [[image]] [[image]] Ruth Law Miss Law comes of a daring family. Her brother, Frederick Rodman Law, is a parachute jumper, and was the first to leap from a moving aeroplane two thousand feet high. The young woman us anxious to have her brother make a jump from her aeroplane, which he will demonstrate at the Oakwood Heights meet. Fear has never entered Miss Law's make-up as an aviator. She does not allow herself to be influenced by the dark side of the flying game. It is Miss Law's theory that deaths in aviation should not be blamed to the aeroplane as much as to recklessness and carelessness on the part of fliers. Her study of the causes of so many deaths convinced her that aviation to-day is seventy-five per cent operator and twenty-five per cent machine. She feels confident that the say will come when aeroplanes can be operated with greater ease and be less dependent on the skill of the operator. Others who will take part in the meet are Captain Thomas S. Baldwin, Harry Bingham Brown, George W. Beatty, Cecil Peoll and George O. Simons. OCTOBER 4, 1912. [[image]] MISS RUTH LAW. The Most Famous Woman Aviator in the World. She Will Take Up the Winner of the Coupon Contest on Sunday. FREE AEROPLANE RIDE WITH MISS RUTH LAW IN A STANDARD WRIGHT BI-PLANE The gentleman or lady presenting the largest number of these coupons at The Staten Islander Office before 6 o'clock on THURSDAY, NOV. 14th, 1912, will be given a free ride at the Aviation Aerodrome, Oakwoods Heights, on SUNDAY, NOV. 17th, between 3 and 5 o'clock. CUT THIS OUT and enclose, with name, addressed to Aviation Editor. ever gave the honor to Port Richmond. The ascent will be made to-morrow afternoon at the aviation grounds, Oakwood Heights. When Miss Law will take Miss Latourette up in her airship and show her how Staten Island looks to the man in the moon. When notified yesterday by the aviation coupon manager that she had won The Staten Islander contest, Miss Latourette smiled broadly and said: "y friends have said that if I won the contest I would get afraid and stick to terra firma. You can say to the readers of The Staten Islander that I am going up with Miss Law on Sunday afternoon, November 17, at Oakwood Heights." "I do not believe it," broke in one of Miss Latourette's intimate friends, Miss Loretta Pfaff, who happened to be present at the time. "You don't? Well, just be there Sunday afternoon, and I will prove to you that I have courage enough said the aviation winner. Miss Pfaff promised that she would have a large concourse of friends present to see Miss Latourette go up and come down. The Staten Islander special car will leave the skyscraper, St. George, on Sunday at 2 o'clock to take Miss Latourette and her friends to the aviation field where she is expected to make the flight at 3 o'clock. MISS RUTH LAW FLIES EVERY DAY Miss Ruth Law is doing great things at the aviation park at Oakwood Heights. She makes a flight every day, taking up passengers. A gold certificate is given each passenger signed by Miss Law, showing that the holder has had an aerial experience. Miss Law is teaching the art of flying and makes special prices to those of Staten Island who are desirous of learning the art during the next two months. In an interview with Miss Law is was surprising to learn that as high as $75,000 was made by a single aviator in one year. She further stated that it is as easy to learn to fly an aeroplane as it is to sail a boat. Miss Law says that next year will be the greatest season aviation has yet seen. [[image]] MISS RUTH BANCROFT LAW IN WRIGHT BIPLANE. F.R. Law Entertains 20,000 Spectators at Aeronautical Society's New Grounds. WOMAN AVIATOR FLIES Staten Island Girl Who Draws Lucky Number Goes Aloft with George W. Beatty. With six biplanes in varied flights, a sensational parachute drop, model aeroplane contests, a ball game and athletic field events, and more than twenty thousand persons in the attitude of a good natured family at a village circus were entertained yesterday afternoon near Oakwood Heights, Staten Island, at the opening of the new ground of the Aeronautical Society. Mr. Mueller's band, of Staten Island, greeted the throng with national anthems at two o'clock, while a volley of small bombs on the field released a flock of toy balloons. The fife and drum corps of Stapleton cadets played with persistence until evening, continuing the strains of "Our Director" on the nine mile train ride from the little station. Frederick Rodman Law, riding as passenger with Harry Bingham Brown in a Wright biplane, attained the height of 5,500 feet, and from this altitude dropped with his parachute to safety in a pasture four miles north of the aviation field. The small aeroplane appeared only as a small speck in the sky to the north when Law leaped from his seat with the parachute. It opened almost at once and began a graceful descent. When within one-half a mile from the earth while the breeze caught the inverted white bowl and swayed the passenger as a pendulum to sharp angles. Once one side of the parachute appeared to collapse, but straightened when Law swung to the other side. He landed lightly on his feet. Miss Law in Flight. Miss Ruth Bancroft Law, of Providence, sister of the parachute jumper, and one of this year's new pilots, wheeled about the sixty-five acre field and over the waters of Princess Bay in a Wright biplane. George W. Beatty gave two exhibitions of banking, cut spirals from several heights and performed a "turkey trot" to please his audience. Ther was enthusiasm for every event, but the applause of the day went to Miss Louise Steinhert, of Egbert avenue, Egbertville, S. I., who drew the lucky number out of the 1,200 distributed in the grand stand, and was taken upon a flight by Mr. Beatty. Miss Steinhert was the center of the was the centre of an astonished group of Staten Island residents when she insisted that she would take advantage of ticket No. 150. She clutched the upright braces of the biplane and looked into space at beginning. Then she waved to her friends beneath her while six hundred automobile horns sent up a raucous greeting. "Fine," she said when she alighted. "It is just like the circle swings at the beach. In Captain Thomas S. Baldwin's "Red Devil" Horace Kemmerie opened the afternoon with a serious of straight flights, banking and volplaning in the huge bi-plane. Later in the day the "Red Devil" made several circles of the field. Dillon Hoffman, in Brown's biplane, attempted the feat of shooting toy balloons, which were released from the hangars and sped at fifteen miles an hour to the north above the grand stand. Mr. Hoffman pointed his repeating shotgun a dozen times at the ellusive balloons and fired once without effect. It was found impossible to maintain the proper altitude. Elling O. Weeks, in a biplane built by himself and O.E. Williams, at Scranton, Pa., demonstrated that the machine had a stability which compared favorably with a Wright or Farman. In his flight the audience took a keen interest which made it evident that the majority preferred the novel air craft to mere sensational flying. It typified the purpose of the Aeronautical Society, which is devoted purely to the scientific advancement of aeronautics "as an art which will develop the ultimate means for transporting the commerce and travel of the entire world." Between flights there was a baseball game, and four dashes, a mile run, a broad jump and a shot-put were held upon the field. Four contests were held by the owners of the miniature aeroplanes. Armour Selley, of the New York Model Aero Club, broke a world's record. His three foot monoplane, propelled by rubber bands, remained in the air 158 4-5 seconds. Officers of the Aeronautical Society expressed satisfaction at the day's results. One=half of the gross receipts, which were reported sufficient to meet expenses, will be divided among the aviators. Miss Ruth Bancroft Law, aviatrix, sister of F. Redman Law, who jumped from the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge, will make an aeroplane flight at the fair on Thursday and Friday. Her machine will be on exhibition at Kingston all through the week. On Governor's Day, Thursday, she will attempt to break her altitude record of 1000 feet, and on Friday she will take as a passenger Phillip Money of Exeter, one of the best known men in the South country and an active director of the fair. FREE RIDE SKYWARD LAST TWO DAYS OF CONTEST FOR THE AEROPLANE FLIGHT. Miss Ruth Law is Waiting With Her Airship to Take Winner of Coupon Contest Up in the Air from Oakwood Heights - She is on the Grounds Every Day and Has Opened a School for Aviation - Certificate Given to All Who Fly - Ascent to be Made Sunday. This is the last call for the hustlers in the coupon contest for an aeroplane ride free of all cost at aviation park, Oakwood Heights, on Sunday. The contest closes to-morrow night and the fortunate holder of the greatest number of Staten Islander coupons, like that printed below, will get the prize. Miss Ruth Law, the famous woman aviation expert, whose picture is printed in this issue, will take up the winner in her Wright biplane. Miss Law is the only professional woman flyer in this country. Her spectacular flights have been described in his and in other papers. Having established her headquarters at Oakwood, Miss Law is daily taking up passengers for a flight to the blue empryean. All passengers are given a certificate signed by her. Thiss week she has added a new wrinkle and is now actually teaching people how to fly. That is, to manipulate the machine themselves. Miss Law is an enthusiast on the subject of aerial travel, and says that in few short years at most that men will go to business and women will go shopping in airships more than they now do in automobiles. Flying is a fad just now, she says, and everybody is talking about it. Miss Law will take passengers up in the air for long or short trips. She is on the ground every day and will explain the workings of her machine between trips. Or you can make arrangements through The Staten Islander. Phone 204 Tompkinsville. SPECIAL NOTICE. All Passengers Taking a Flight Will Receive a Certificate Signed by Miss Law. Miss Law holds the altiude record for women aviators and is the only woman who ever carried up another woman to the height of 1,000 feet. This she did on Tuesday of last week at Oakwood when she had the famous Leona Dare as a passenger. Don't forget the free ride coupon in this number. You have just as good a chance as anybody if you hustle. Any man or any woman can win. Bring in the coupons and you will get a free ride in the air with Miss Law. Bring the coupons to The Staten Islander office before 6 o'clock to-morrow evening. The lucky winner will be taken "up in the air" on Sunday afternoon between 3 and 5 o'clock, and a good audience will be on hand to see the flight.
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