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[[image]] CHARLES F. NILES, WHO FINISHED SECOND [[image]] LUCKEY PASSING THE WOOLWORTH TOWER [[image]] WOOD FINISHING PHOTO © BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSN [[image]] JANE HAUGHTON AND RUTH LAW. PHOTO BY UNDERWOOD AND UNDERWOOD. [[image]] LUCKEY STARTING. Flying to Staten Island for Start of Derby, Walb Aeroplane Enters an Air Pocket. ___ A STEAMBOAT SAVES HIM ___ Wood Makes Trip from Hempstead-Jewel Will Follow This Morning. ___ READY FOR TO-DAY'S MEET ___ Aviators Make Test Flights for Wright Memorial While Crowds Applaud. ___ WOMAN TO OPEN CONTESTS ___ Miss Ruth Law's Flight First Event on Meet Programme-How to Get to the Park. ___ WEATHER FOR TIMES AIR RACE TO-DAY: Fair; light to moderate west winds. A few words from a Nut. or spelling. Don't break chain. May 23rd 1914. [[image]] WHOOPEE! VOTES FOR WOMEN MISS LAW QUITE A BIRD ___ Ruth B. Law gave a number of exhibition flights with her Wright biplane at the Mount Holly Air grounds, Mount Holly, N.J., during the past week. A number of passengers were carried by the clever little aviatrix ___ [[image]] Miss RUTH LAW... Ruth Law, Who Can Make Her Biplane Perform Wonders, Declares Women Are Braver Than Men When It comes to Flying. ___ She Tells of a Male Passenger Who Got Scared at a Height of Ten Feet, Made Her Land Him and Wanted Her to Certify He Had Gone Up 1,000 Feet. To be brave, just lose your nerves." The speaker was a trim little figure. Lost hidden in a huge white woollen , coat with collar standing up to the [[top]] of her ears, partially burying her head on which was jammed a dark-[[green]] felt hat. She was tightly [[hugging]] a large bunch of yellow chrysanthemums and white roses, and as she [[spoke]] she occasionally shoved her nose [[right]] straight into that armful of [[beauty]]. The girl was Ruth Law. She was [[leaning]] against her hangar at Oakwood, Staten Island, discussing the problem of aviation from a lady's viewpoint, and also from a lofty standpoint. And few are more qualified to speak on this subject, for she has [[flirted]] more times with death than any other woman on earth. Her reply, quoted above, was to the question asked her by an over-inquisitive youth: "How does it feel to be brave?" "In the first place, I do not think I am brave," continued the greatest woman aviator in America, as she gave the big bouquet another embrace. "You see, to be brave one has to possess nerve and bravery, and yet I have been told that a brave person hasn't any nerves. "I don't know about that, but I do know that to become an aviator one has to dismiss all fear. It's nice to be fearless, and I think it is rather an exaggeration to say a person who is brave hasn't any fear. But I think it's true that the real aviator lacks nerves" And as the interviewers gazed up at the big letters "Ruth Bancroft Law," which were spread all over the front of the hanger, he was inclined to think that this most capable woman flier among the aviators of the world was fearless; had plenty of nerve, and was just the bravest little woman one would meet if one searched the corners of every town between the Atlantic and the Pacific. For she has done [[things]] that have caused poor, weak, help[[less]] man to cringe with fear. ___ MAN GOT SCARED WHEN UP ONLY TEN FEET She will tell you a story of how one day when she took a man up about ten feet, in her little white Write biplane at Sea Breeze, Fla., that male individual shook from his finger nails to the extreme end of the longest hair in his head. Then he begged her to take him back to earth. But that wasn't all. After she had brought him back to the ground, where they had started from, he begged her to put on the certificate of flight that he had gone 1,000 feet up. Miss Law refused to do this, and the fellow hid the certificate and "swanked" about the hotel that he had gone up ten centuries with a woman aviator. "He was such a pitiable creature that I never took the time to deny his story," said Miss Law. "And yet I wouldn't say this man was not a brave man. He had nerves, that was all. Possibly he was a very brave man down here, but he certainly was far from brave up there. "You see, man is more cautious than woman. This is why he is the biggest coward in the air. Of course, I'm speaking of those who go up as passengers. The women are always the bravest, and they go up just for the sport of the thing, and I find that the slight nervousness manifested when they first leave the earth is soon overcome, and very soon they request me to go higher. and when I send it up higher they ask me to go even higher. Woman is more daring than man. "Have I ever been scared? Well, I will admit I felt rather nervous one day when I was flying at Sea Breeze last winter. I was caught in a whirlpool when about one thousand feet up, and it caught my machine sideways and made every effort to rend it in a hundred pieces and dash me to earth in a disfigured state. But I fought it and ran the machine straight down and landed. It was a thrilling experience, and I would not care to repeat it. ___ ASKED ME TO GET HIS HAT, LOST AT 2,000 FEET ALTITUDE "I must tell you another story, which illustrates the bravery of some of my men passengers. One day while flying with a gentleman passenger in Florida my companion's hat flew off when we were about 2,000 feet up. He grabbed me by the shoulders and exclaimed, 'There goes my hat! We must get it!' I turned and replied, 'I'll go right back and get it.' "That man evidently thought he was riding in an automobile." It was just a year ago that Miss Law took up the first woman passenger in the world, on the very same ground where she now stood relating her experiences, and curiously enough that woman's name was Madame Dare. It was while watching her brother, Rowland Law, that daring young aviator, jump from Phil Page's aeroplane at Marblehead, Mass., with a parachute, that Miss Ruth suddenly decided to become an aviator. That was about two years ago, and since that time she has made about 750 trips and is known to have made more successful flights, for the time she has been flying, than four-fifths of the aviators in this country. She learned how to fly in a forty horsepower Wright biplane, and the machine she uses to-day is the same one. So she remained on the earth and spent most of the day making new acquaintances and receiving floral tributes from her many admirers, who called at her hanger to examine her famous little machine and, incidentally, catch a glimpse of its attractive little owner. This darling little aviator is not ostentatious, but, on the other hand, quiet and reserved, and it took much [[longer]] to get this story than it takes to read it, for she dislikes talking about Ruth Law. The next daring feat on her programme is a flight to Boston and return for a prize of $10,000, which will take place next Saturday, and she solemnly vows if she can get the six cylinder sixty horse-power Wright machine that she has her eye on she will make that trip at the rate of ninety-five miles an hour, and gather in that $10,000 in about two hours. And if the reader had seen the look of determination on her face as she said this it would have erased any doubt in his mind about her being able to do it. For when Ruth says she will do it she usually succeeds. ___ 1831 MONDAY, [[?]] AEROPLANE AND AUTO COLLIDE Car Runs Down Airship on Highway and Ties Up Traffic - Ruth Law and Charles Oliver Escape [[image]] MISS RUTH LAW, (MRS. CHARLES OLIVER) IN HER AEROPLANE [[?]]WITH AN AUTOMOBILE YESTERDAY. BADLY [[?]] MACHINE AND TYING UP TRAFFIC ON THE NEW-[[?]] Sept. 21 - A [[?]] aeroplane and an [[?]] the Newburyport [[?]] for some time today and several had narrow escapes from injury. The aeroplane was not in the air at the time of the accident, but was being towed on earth behind an automobile and was on the way to Rochester, N. H. It was owned and the automobile was occupied by Charles Oliver, the aviator, and his wife, whose professional name is Ruth Law, who is herself a flier. ___ The Oliver's were on their way to participate in a New England fair when their auto, which was towing the flying machine, broke down on the turnpike not far from the Rowley line. Oliver got out to repair it, and while he was under the machine another auto coming from the rear ran into the aeroplane which was trailing behind the stalled auto. The shock hurled the aeroplane across the road so that the traffic could [[?]] for some time. The collision caused the right wing of the aeroplane [[?]] the machine which caused it [[?]] register, and was occupied by a man and woman who de-[[?]] their names. In the auto [[?]] is assigned to P.Q. [[?]] Me. was later towed [[?]] and a force [[?]] put to [[?]] all VOTES FOR WOMEN
