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Winning Aviator, Rival, Feat on Flight and Two Flying "Fans" Photo c by Dowers Engraving Co. [[Image]] Luckey passing the Woolworth Tower [[Image]] William S. Luckey The Winner Photos c By American Press Assn [[Image]] Charles F. Niles, who finished second [[Image]] Wood Finishing Photo c by American Press Assn [[Image]] Jane Haughton and Ruth Law Photo By Underwood and Underwood 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. [[Image]] Luckey Starting A few words from a [[?]]. Our Ancient Prayer. Oho Lord Jesus I pray thee to be blessed. Keep us from evil and bring us to to do onto thee. Amen. This Prayer was sent to me and is being sent around the world. Copy it and see what happens. It is said in Jesus Time all who passed it by would meet with some misfortune. Copy it and send to 9 friends within 9 days, and upon the 10th day you will meet with some great joy. Send no name only day received. Don't alter words [[Image]] Quite A Bird [[Ribbon?]] Aviator Ruth B. Law gave a number of exhibition flights with her Wright biplane at the Mount Holly fair grounds, Mount Holly, N.J., during the past week. A number of passengers were carried by the clever little aviatrix. [[cut off]]ning World, Tuesday, October 14, 1913. If You'd Be a High Flyer Just Lose All Your Nerves, Says Girl of 750 Flights [[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. -------- [[cut off]] be brave, just lose your nerves," [[cut off]] speaker was a trim little figure, [[cut off]]t hidden in a huge white woollen [[cut off]] with collar standing up to the [[cut off]]f her ears, partially burying her [[cut off]] on which was jammed a dark-[cut off]] felt hat. She was tightly hugging a large bunch of yellow chrysanthemums and white roses, and as she [[cut off]] she occasionally shoved her nose [[cut off]] straight into that armful of [[cut off]y. [[cut off]] girl was Ruth Law. She was [[cut off]]ng against her hangar at Oak[[cut off]] Staten Island, discussing the [[cut off]] of aviation from a lady's view[[cut off]] and also from a lofty stand[[cut off]]. And few are more qualified to [[cut off]] on this subject, for she has [[cut off]] more times with death than any woman on earth. [[cut off]] reply, quoted above, was to the [[cut off]]on asked her by an over-inquistive youth: "How does it feel to be [[cut off, brave?]]?" [[cut off, In?]] the first place, I do not think [[cut off]] brave," continued the greatest [[cut off]] aviator in America, as she gave [[cut off]] bouquet another embrace. "You [[cut off]] to be brave one has to possess [[cut off]] and bravery, and yet I have been [[cut off]] that a brave person hasn't any [[cut off, fear?]]. [[cut off, I?]] don't know about that, but I do [[cut off, know?]] that to become an aviator one [[cut off]] dismiss all fear. It's nice to be [[cut off]]s, and I think it is rather an [[cut off]] to say a person who is [[cut off, brave?]] hasn't any fear. But I think it is [[cut off]] that the real aviator lacks [[cut off]]." [[cut off]] as the interviewer gazed up at [[cut off]] as the interviewer gazed up at [[cut off]]g letters, "Ruth Bancroft Law," [[cut off]] were spread all over the front [[cut off, of the?]] hangar, he was inclined to think [[cut off]]his most capable woman flier [[cut off]] the bravest little woman on [[cut off]] meet if one searched the corner [[cut off, of every]] town between the Atlantic and [[cut off, the Pacific?]]. For she has done th[[cut off]] have caused poor, weak, help[[cut off]] cringe with fear. [[cut off]] GOT SCARED WHEN UP ONLY TEN FEET. [[cut off]] will tell you a story of how one [[cut off, time?]] when she took a man up about [[cut off, ten feet?]], in her little white Wright [[cut off, biplane?]] nt Sea Breeze, Fla., that male [[cut off]]al shook from his finger nails [[cut off, to the?]] extreme end of the longest hair [[cut off, on his?]] head. Then he begged her to [[cut off]]m back to earth. That wasn't all. After she had [[cut off]] him back to the ground, where [[cut off]]d started from, he begged her [[cut off]] on the certificate of flight that [[cut off]] gone 1,000 feet up. Miss Law [[cut off]] to do this, and the fellow hid [[cut off, the certificate?]] and "swanked about the [[cut off]] he had gone up ten centuries [[cut off]] woman aviator. [[cut off, "He was?]] such a pitiable creature that [[cut off]] 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 See Breeze last winter. I was caught in a whirpool 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 on 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 down 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 to fly in a forty horsepower Wright biplane, and the machine uses to-day is the same one in which she learned to fly and in which she has made every flight since. And what wonders she has accomplished with that machine! It is her one delight to go up when no one else will, and no matter how stiff the breez, or how dangerous the currents, if she thinks she would like to go up, why, she goes. She can dip, volplane, swirve, dive, and in fact she declares she can do anything in the air. Since she first began flying she has found her greatest delight in doing things in the ocean of space that would make the average woman tremble in despair. But Miss Law hasn't any nerves, and not having any nerves, she knows no fear. SHE HAS TAKEN UP 300 PERSONS IN TWO YEARS. During the two years that she has been flying she has taken from the [[earth?]] no less than about 300 persons. But she has always brought them down again. To fly with her is quite as asfe dip, volplane, swerve, dive, and in fact the chances of death are minimized, for never during the thousands of miles she has covered in the air has she ever met with one mishap. This is principally due to the fact that she is always cautious, and studies every portion of her machine before she takes her place at the wheel. She would have gone up yesterday in the teeth of that northwest gale had it not been for her friends' interference, who finally convinced her it would be folly for her to take her light machine up in such a strong wind. So she remained on the search and spent most of her day making new acquaintances and receiving floral tributes from her many admirers, who called at her hangar to examine her famous little machine and, incidentally, catch a glimpse of its attractive little owner. This daring 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. [[yellow flower with ribbon]] VOTES FOR WOMEN 1831 Monday, S[[cut off]] 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[[covered]] with an automobile yesterday, badly [[covered]] machine and tying up traffic on the new [[covered]] [[covered]] Sept. 21- A [[covered]] aeroplane and an [[covered]] the Newburyport [[covered]] 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 traffic could not pass for some time. The collision demolished the right wing of the aeroplane. The machine which caused it had a Maine register, and was occupied by a man and woman who declined to give their names. In the auto list the number is assigned to P. Q. Loring of Portland, Me. The damaged flyer was later towed to a Newburyport garage and a force of carpenters and machinists put to work repairing it. They will work all night, and the owners say there is no [[cut off]] they will make their flights in [[cut off]]
