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[[Cursive?]] Chicago Sunday Tribune. IN the LIMELIGHT Shooting From An Airship Miss Jane Houghton and Miss Ruth Law doing aviation stunts in Manhattan. Which is harder--to hit a stationary object when you're motion, or to hit a moving object when you are standing still? Miss Law can do either. 6 THE WORLD'S NEWS. Saturday, Nerviest Girl Aviator and Her Thrilling Feats in Mid-air. Higher and higher soared the biplane like some gigantic bird. The woman with the lever in her hand smiled happily. She knew they were now over 4000ft. up in the air. The rather heavy set, elderly man passenger who had craved thrills in an airship sat tightly, as he had been told, but with firmly compressed lips. He inwardly hoped that this outward appearance indicated a real enjoyment of the sensation of flying. Never for a moment did his eyes swerve from the slight, girlish figure of the woman before him. How cleverly she managed the great, flapping machine! One false move of the lover and--- The man's reflections ceased abruptly. He became suddenly obsessed with the idea that something out of the ordinary had occurred. he leaned forward breathlessly. The young woman at the lever held his life in her hands. Surely the smile on the face of the golden-haired aviatrice was just as bright, but, even as the man looked, her blue eyes seemed to become keener, her slight form more alert. Her trim gloved hands moved quickly from lever to lever. There came an almost imperceptible jar as the ship seemed to be swinging around. The air currents changed. The man grasped again. It was no imagination. Something was really happening. The ship was surely turning around, now slowly, now faster, again and again. The man passenger who had wanted thrills was getting them. "Are you frightened?" asked the woman at the levers. "No, n-n-not at all." gasped the man, as he felt himself being whirled faster and faster through the air. Down, down, around and around, down again, ever circling, swifter and swifter went the machine while the man held tight and hasped and the woman gazed off into space with those keen blue eyes that are so unfathomable and smiled. "we just encountered an [[page torn]] birds, so gazed Ruth Law at her brother Rodman. "Rodman does it, so why can't I?" From the time she could first lisp the words, members of the Law family have heard her say them. Later they have seen them carried into effect. If Rodman rode a spirited horse Ruth was promptly discovered astride the same animal--or one a trifle more spirited. If Rodman came home drenched after a ducking in the river as a result of his attempts to row a boat in some peculiarly dangerous manner it only remained for time and opportunity to reveal Miss Ruth in the same predicament--and no matter what happened she smiled. She smiled the day that her brother Rodman made his first parachute jump. That was hte day she decided to fly. She said so. As she stood by the deserted race track at the Empire City Fair Grounds and watched the workmen packing her biplane for shipment to Hempstead, but hold your breath until you can board the nearest airship. It will at once be observed that this will have practically the same effect as the time-honored precept of counting ten. And when business matters all go wrong and the office boy brings a telegram that your mother-in-law is coming on a visit, don't swear or tear your hair, but you get right up in the air. The effect is marvellous [[marvelous]]. Miss law says so. And Miss Law knows, because since she commenced to fly a year ago last July she has made more flights than any other woman in the United States. Her recent visited to Hempstead, L.I. [[Long Island]], was for the purpose of breaking her own world's altitude record of 5500 feet. "Flying takes one so completely away from everything mundane," she remarked, apropos of nerves. "When I am on the earth I am as nervous as any other woman. Trifling difficulties annoy me. Sometimes I get dreadfully worried over a delay in getting started on a flight. Often, t the last moment, I have been greatly vexed and disappointed. But all I have to do is get the motor started and sail away. Instantly, I am calm and tranquil. Flying softly through the air has the effect of quieting the nerves as nothing else on earth can." The fearless, death defying young woman gazed up at the fleecy white clouds hovering over her with an expression that was almost affectionate. "I love flying." she observed reflectively, "and it took me only three weeks to learn. After I bought my machine I practiced for another four weeks before I gave my first public exhibition of Narragansett Park, providence, R.I. [[Rhode Island]] In all the flights that I have made never once has it occurred to me that I was braving death to any greater extent than are the pedestrians who every day cross Fifth-avenue or Broadway and Thirty-fourth street. "When I first wanted to fly Orville Wright refused to permit be [[me]] to be instructed at his school. He said it was physically impossible for a woman to learn to fly because of her tendency to get into a panic and in an emergency do the wrong thing. I have entirely disproved that theory. I have not inten- [[cut off]] MANY ATTRACTIONS OF VARIED NATURE FOR MEMORIAL DAY ----- Baseball Games, Horse Racing, Flights by Aviators and Athletic Meet on Holiday Programme [[Program]] of outdoor Sports. Only Good Weather Needed. ----- All kinds of attractions designed to supply the tastes of the most exacting have been arranged for Memorial Day, and favorable weather is about all that is required to make the day one long to be remembered by lovers of sport in this State. The attractions which will be offered to followers of outdoor sports include numberless baseball gamers, horse racing, athletic meets, exhibition flights by aviators, and various other diversions Intended to give pleasure and recreation to the thousands who seek it upon a holiday. Both the morning and afternoon are crowded with features which will attract thousands to Melrose Park, Andrews Field, and the various grounds where the [[cut off]] [[Picture]] RUTH B. LAW Aviator Will Give Exhibition Flights at Rocky Point Tomorrow SISTER AND BROTHER WHO HAVE NO FEAR OF DEATH By. Mr W.I. Philbrick [[?]] Many people who visited the fair at Rochester this fall and saw Ruth Bancroft Law, the aviator, and who in the papers have read of the feats of Rodman Law, the steeplejack and parachute jumper, will be interested to know that at one time they resided in the city. Born in Lynn, Mass. they were the children of Frederick H. and Sadie Breed Law, and by both father and mother were descendants of staid, dignified old families of the shoe city. When they were hardly more than babies their father bought a big farm at West Milton in this state, and made it a summer home. Later they moved to this city, where they resided for several years. From here they went to New Haven, Conn., and there on a big place outside the city the children grew up. At an early age both showed the intrepid, dare-devil spirit which yet characterizes them. When but a boy, Frederick Rodman Law began his adventures and traveled etxensively [[extensively]], finally taking up the profession of steeplejack, then that of parachute jumper. It was while in Lynn on a visit that Ruth Bancroft Law first got her idea of taking up aviation as a profession, and no sooner did she determine on it that she put it into effect, with such good results that today she stands at the head of her profession as a woman aviator. Quiet, unassuming and very unaffected this really remarkable young woman talks of flying through the air as calmly as other people talk of a ride on a trolley car. She is perfectly fearless and if she has nerves keeps them under perfect control. One thing, however, she absolutely refuses to do, that is, take up her brother as passenger for any of his jumps. Her business she considers safe, but his as very reckless and says the idea of being responsible for his welfare would unnerve her, so she has never taken him up, even on a pleasure trip. Last winter Miss Law passed at Datona Beach, Florida, where she was remarkably successful, and this fall at Oakwood Heights, Staten Island, she has made some record of flights. Slight of build, with a mass of golden hair, in her aviation suit she looks very young and girlish. She is two years the junior of her brother and has been married for several years. Her husband is Chales [[Charles]] Oliver, formerly of Lynn. He always travels with her, acting as her business manager. Rodman Law is also married, and besides his wife, two pretty children are to be found at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. The mother of the daring pair of Laws, together with her two other daughters, both of whom are married, resides in Chicago, Ill. It is an odd thing that while Miss Law is perfectly at home in her aeroplane she never cares to drive her own automobile and while Rodman Law does all sorts of reckless stunts for the moving picture people he has never learned to manage an aeroplane. From early childhood they have been devoted to deeds of daring and when "Rod" attempted any difficult feat Ruth did the same, or went one better and their escapades while at Fair Haven are yet well remembered by the residents. However as years passed and both were married, devotion to home and business seemed to leave neither time nor inclination for such deeds but now by a queer turn in the wheel of time both are engaged in what is certainly a hazardous way of making money. Mrs. Law, their mother, is sister to Mr. G.F. Breed and Mrs. W.I. Philbrick, both formerly of this city, and among Ruth Law's passengers this summer at Oakwood Heights was W. Rodman Philbrick, her cousin. Both Mr. Philbrick and Mr. Law are named for their maternal grandfather, George Rodman Breed, who was a well known shoe manufacturer in Lynn, Mass., and a son of Isaiah Breed of whom it has been said "He made Lynn what it is today, by the start he gave it while one of its foremost citizens." And from such staid old Quaker stock have those two intrepid young people descended. This winter Miss Law expects to spend in the south, where she has among her passengers many noted people, and will doubtless add new laurels to those already won. [[Picture]] KENTUCKY STATE FAIR SEPT. 13 TO 18th BIGGEST SADDLE HORSE SHOW IN THE WORLD Mrs. Robert Goelet Flies in Aeroplane at Daytona
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