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FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1915
THE CINCINNATI COM

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WOMAN AVIATOR
 THRILLS CROWD

Death-Defying Swoops and
Curves Gracefully Performed
by Miss Law in Spectacular Flight.

MAN PERFORMS DARING 
FEAT IN LEAP FROM 'BIRD'

MISS RUTH BANCROFT LAW
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--Photo by Barnum.

   Spectacular rather than sensational
one would call the air flight of Miss
Ruth Bancroft Law at Coney Island 
yesterday.  There was something of
the real drama of the skies about it.
You followed it with the keenest intensity:
you were thrilled, but not
shocked, as you craned your neck and
raised your eyes heavenward. You tried,
perhaps, to accept it, even in its daring,
as a conventional exhibition of
well-practiced skill sustained by courage.
But still you were amazed by the
celerity and easy grace of its accomplishment
and the finally and splendidly
attained climax in the young lady's
alighting after sundry death-defying
swoops and curvings that threatened 
at times to bring the huge machine 
crashing against the lofty coaster
at the south of the aviation grounds.
          Driver Shows Skill.
   There were moments when the big
canvass-winged bird curved and careened, 
hanging at threatening angles
as its engine chugged and its propellers
churned and buzzed in a seemingly
too close approach to the ground;
but its immediate graceful lifting
brought such assuring evidence of the
driver's skill that the thrill, half
started, gave way to admiration, followed
by applause.
   Drama it was, of its own peculiar
kind, a braving of the skies with an
easy, self-assured daring, a spectacular
illustration of the conquest of the air
boldly accomplished.
   There was, however, one really sensational
feature, an interpolated incident,
that turned briefly all attention
from the real drama of the clouds and
the frail but daring pilot of the seemingly
sentient canvass ship.
          Daring Feat of Man.
   Miss Law, costumed in a dark blue
silk suit of baggy knickerbockers, a 
heavy sweater, goggles and tight-fitting 
cap, had guided the circling
Wright aeroplane to a dizzy height
directly above the green aviation field,
when suddenly a young man, George 
Mayland, seated by her side, rose and
clambered over the supporting wires to
a position beneath the deck of the
plane.  He had buckled a stout belt
about his waist and this he now attached
to the ropes of a parachute tied
tightly to the lofty, hovering machine
He could be plainly seen in his every

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THE DAYTON JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1915.
DARING AVIATRIX AT FAIRGROUNDS
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DARING AVIATRIX LIKES TO COOK
 AND DARN HER HUSBAND'S SOCKS
     By Cynthia Grey [[image]]

   I was rather started to find 
Ruth Bancroft Law, the daring
woman aviator, darning her
husband's socks 
under a tree at 
Coney Island.
   I expected to 
find her in flying 
costume, tinkering
with the engine of her
Wright biplane
or trying difficult
feats with a parachute.
   Miss Law is 
as adventuresome
as her brother, Rodman Law,
the dare-devil movie star.  She is
one of two women in the United
States who hold licenses from the
Aero Club of America.
   She has established height records
from flights by women, and
to take a daily trip of 2500 feet
in the air, disturbs her no more
than to go window-shopping on
Fourth-st.
   I found her dressed in shirt
waist and skirt, engaged in the
most humdrum of wifely pursuits.
       Likes To Cook and Sew
   "I like to darn and cook and
sew, and even sweep," said this
woman of the air.
   "When I travel about doing 
exhibition flying I take my sewing,
also an electric iron, so I can press
my clothes."
   Miss Law sews her aeroplane as
well as her clothes.  She is covering
the planes with new material,
a waterproof linen.
   She can take aeroplane engine
to pieces and put it together
again.
   "Two mechanics are with me, but 
I look after the engine myself,

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THE DAYTON JOURNAL
DAYTON, OHIO, SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1915

AVIATRIX THRILL 
WITH FLIGHTS INTO CLOUDS

Miss Ruth Law Gives Pretty
  Exhibition With Biplane
  at Fairgrounds Before Big
  Crowd.

   Miss Ruth Law cast a weatherwise
eye toward the gathering clouds. She
walked to where Charles Oliver waas
tinkering with some braces on the 
model B Wright biplane and stroked
his straying locks. 
   A moment later she was seated in
the control of the aeroplane, the motors
were started and with propellors
whizzing she went scampering down 
the broken field at the fair grounds.
She went the entire length of the
course before acquiring enough speed
to ascend.
   Upon the return trip she early gathered
speed and was in the air at 4:16 
for a beautiful flight lasting for 10
minutes.  At times Miss Law attained 
an altitude of close to 800 feet.  At
others she hovered within 150 feet of
the earth, and she described two distinct
spiral descents.
       STORM STOPS FLIGHTS.
   When she alighted from the first
flight, which proved also to be the last
because of the severe rain and electrical
storm, her graceful descent was a
subject of much comment.  Although
prevented from doing anything spectacular,
Miss Law executed an elegant
flight.  The rising winds, which occurred
in frequent puffs and gusts, 
were bothersome.
   Miss Law in real, honest-to-goodness 
life is Mrs. Charles Oliver, of New
York city.  When she stroked the locks
of Charles Oliver before attempting 
her flight, she was merely evidencing
proper connubial affection, and the last
touch meant much to the Olivers, who knew
not whether it would really be
the last or not.
       TOOK MISS STINSON'S PLACE.
   Miss Law flew before a crowd estimated
at 3,000 under the auspices of
the Dayton auxiliary of the National
Letter Carriers' association, yesterday
afternoon and she took the place of
Miss Katherine Stinson, who was advertised
to give an exhibition.
   According to Miss Stinson, she was 
unable to fly on account on the litigation
which involves the Wright company
and Albert Elton, of Youngstown,
Elton, who is a partner in the Price
Exhibition company, guaranteed to
have a machine here for Miss Stinson
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AVIATRIX THRILLS
 HUNDREDS IN FLIGHT

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to fly, but his machine is held by the
Wright company pending settlement of
a suit for $1,000 institu [[?]] the company
against Elton.
       HAD NO MACHINE HERE.
   Miss Stinson exhibited a telegram
from Elton in which he guaranteed to 
have a machine for her to take up
yesterday.  Her only available machine
was in Chicago and as it is a new one
and she has not given it a thorough tryout
she did not wish to bring it to
Dayton, Miss Stinson explained.
   Throughout the exercises at the fair
grounds yesterday Miss Stinson was
an interested spectator and after the
flight she pronounced Miss Law's work
to be splendid.  Miss Stinson engaged
Miss Law to fly for the letter carriers
after she found she could not do so.
Miss Law was in Cincinnati last week
and made flights at Coney Island.
          SHAM BATTLE.
   Prior to the aeroplane exhibition
three companies of the Third Infantry,
O. N. G., stationed in Dayton, presented
a sham battle.  Companies G 
and K were on the offense and occupied 
trenches at the northern end of 
the track infield. Company H and the 
battery was entrenched on the southern
end of the infield. 
   Because the advancing and retreatings
troops disarranged the wires for
the mines, which were planted under 
the infield in several locations, this
feature of the engagements was not so
interesting. Smack of musketry and
boom of the small artillery piece operated
by the battery and movements
of the troops gave a good illustration
of the real article however.
   Ed Wright, cowpuncher of Douglas, 
Wyoming, twice holder of the championship 
for riding bucking bronchos,
entertained the crowd until the sham
battle was ready. He rode two bucking
horses and demonstrated many
tricks of the celebrated cowboys of the 
western plains.
   The Third Regimental band and 
Heidelberg's orchestra furnished music 
during the afternoon. The heavy 
rainfall stopped the second flight and 
the other entertainment features arranged
by the postmen's committee.

CINCINNATI TIMES-STAR.
BIRDGIRL FEARED HER NOSE
WOULD BECOME SUNBURNED
[[Image - Miss Ruth Law preparing to make a flight at Coney Isle]]

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THRILLERS
Provided By Woman Aviator and
ParachuteJumper For Crowds 
at Coney Island.
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     RUTH BANCROFT LAW.
   Interest in the thrilling flights of Miss
Ruth Bancroft Law at Coney Island, and 
the daring parachute drops of her companion,
George Mayland, increases each
day, and the boatmen on the Island
Queen and Princess declare they have
never seen so many "repeaters" as they 
have since Thursday.  The element of
danger in each flight of Miss Law and
leap of Mayland makes it an "act" that 
can be watched time and again.  Immense 
crowds saw it yesterday and preparations
have been made for a still larger 
attendance to-day.
   Picturesquely dressed in a dark blue
suit of baggy knickerbockers and sweater, 
googles and tight-fitting cap, there is
a certain fascination about the daring
young woman even when she is merely
tinkering about the machine.  She is
slender and willowy and has a reputation
among airmen and those who follow the
sport of being more skillful than many
with international reputations.  Never for
a moment do the spectators take their
eyes from her the moment she starts
aloft until, completing her dizzy circling
of the clouds, she returns to earth again. 
   The crowd yesterday was exceptionally 
large, and, while the day was not ideal,
the exhibition was perfect in every detail.
As a special feature "Knockout" 
Mars, the local fighter, made a trip with
her.

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RUTH BANKCROFT LAW, said to be the most
daring "skywoman," will fly in her biplane at
Coney Island, beginning June 17.  She will sail
the same sensational course selected by Lincoln
Beachey, famous aviator, who flew at

Transcription Notes:
Left column-Image of Ms. Ruth Bancroft Law in black and white next to her plane. Middle column-Daring Aviatrix Likes To Cook And Darn Her Husband's Socks-Image of Ms. Ruth Bancroft Law sitting on a chair with a needle and yarn fabric