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4 THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916. --- COMBINED RESERVE FOR ALLIED URGED - Such an Army Could Force a Decision Where Needed, Says Italian Writer - NOW NEEDED IN BALKANS - Germany, He Says, Has Been Able to Gain Successes by This Means. - Special Correspondence of THE NEW YORK TIMES. PARIS, Nov 8.-The advisability of creating what is termed "une armée de manoeuvre" by the combined Allies has been put forward by several writers in the Paris press. The idea was first exposed by Signor Luigi Campolonghi, Paris correspondent of the Secolo, and has met with favorable response from such a military critic as Lieut. Col-Rousset. The suggestion is that the principal allied powers, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Russia, should constitute a reserve force to act independently of the different fronts, according as the supreme allied command thinks fit. It is pointed out that Russia, Italy, and Great Britain especially have large supplies of men and material, of which a part could be brought into play as an active factor in the struggle wherever the need was most felt. It is argued, for instance, that such a "manoeuvring army," if it existed at present, would be of the greatest value in the Balkans in going to the support of the Rumanians. It is said that, thanks to such an "armée de manoeuvre" Germany has been able to deal effective blows again and against, as latterly in the case of the Dobrudja and in Transylvania. The system has worked very smoothly with the Central Empires, where there exists a single supreme command, which draws on the resources of its allies, whether Austrian, Bulgar, or Turk, as military necessity dictates. In the case of the Entente Powers, whenever a crisis arises, the process of constituting an expeditionary force-as in the case of the Saloniki expedition- is necessarily slow and subordinated to political and nation exigencies. The advantage of the new "manoeuvring army" would be its readiness to strike and move swiftly wherever required. Its composition would necessarily vary in accordance with the resources of the powers which contribute to its creation as regard men and material. Signor Campolonghi points out that by the combined attack on the various fronts, the Allies are preventing the Germans from resorting to their favorite and so often successful tactics of shifting troops quickly from point to point. But it is not sufficient to hinder the enemy using this arm, says the writer; the Allies should use it in turn. The "manoeuvring army" which he advocated, could, in fact, be transported at will and would furnish the weapon for giving the finishing stroke wherever the already existing and increasing pressure of the allied fronts was wearing down the enemy. It would of course not be necessary to transport the entire "armée de manoeuvre," which would be more in the nature of a common source on which to draw on. This plan, of adopted, would also have the advantage of equalizinz the sacrifices made by the various Allies for the common cause and would become essential if the lately advocated plan of a joint Supreme Council of War for the allied fronts be adopted. - DR. WISE ASSAILS SHONTS. Charges Interboro Has Used Espionage and Intimidation in Strike. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise on the platform of the Labor Forum in the auditorium of the Stuyvesant High School last night, challenged the heads of the traction companies in New York to appoint a committee to hear and report to the people of New York the evidence of what he called the "moral anarchy of Shontism which has reigned in New York for the last ten years." "All the Shontses and Baron Whitridges in New York," Dr. Wise said "could not persist in their ways as they are persisting if the people of New York did not tolerate and even approve of them and their ways. My quarrel is not so much with Shonts and Whitridhe as with the people of New York, and my indictment is of them. If the proper channel of publicity had not be denied to the strikers they would not have suffered the reverses that they seem to have suffered." He said the he wished his phrases, "moral anarchy" and "moral lawlessness," to be quoted, "I am reading them," he said, "from my written word, so that I may be held responsible for them. I have evidence in my pocket of the ten years of espionage, intimidation, and terrorism practiced by the heads of the local traction companies against the traction workers. I base the Interboro officials themselves under the date of Feb. 25, 1916. Rule 23 says in effect, that any employe who does not like the rules made by the company for his government, and is not disposed to aid in this enforcement, is expected to resign or he will be discharged. The traction workers has only two alternatives against such despotism, the acquiescence of whipped curs or a strike of men." Rabbi Wise spoke after Edward O'Brien, organizer of the carmen's union, who outlined the history of the strike from the beginning, and said: "The carmen have not only been fighting the press, the officials of the city, but also organized labor has not been where it should have been in the struggle." - FEAR FOR PRUSSIAN POLAND. --- Route of Ruth Law's Record-Breaking Aeroplane Flight [[image]] --- --- RUTH LAW'S STORY OF HER LONG FLIGHT - Continued from Page 1. - move my arms, and it was a job to handle the steering gear at a time when it had to be handled right. After I had landed-I think it was just 2:10, Eastern time-I gave instructions for putting 53 gallons more gasoline into the tanks, got into an automobile and went downtown where I got a cup of coffee and some scrambled eggs. It was in leaving Hornell that I came as near being wrecked as I ever want to be. Blocking the path to the east was a hill 600 feet high on top of which there were tall tress. Just after 3 o'clock I left the race track and started over that bill. I went up as steeply as I could, but it looked as if I was headed straight to a collision with the trees. Just before I got to them, the machine responded bravely and I got over those trees, how closely I came to not getting over them being shown by the fact that I practically flew through their tops with branches striking the bottom of the aeroplane. Soon after I left Hornell I saw that I was not going to reach New York Sunday. It was getting dusk. I was almost tempted to go ahead in the dark to Governors Island, but I had not any lights to enable me to see the instruments that told where I was going and how. The realization that I would have to stop came as a disappointment, but I comforted myself with the assurance that it was not my fault, but the fault of the cold weather in Chicago. That was something I had had to contend with that had not bothered Caristrom at all, for it was much warmer when he made his flight. Meets the Glad-Hand Chairman. When I saw that I had to stop, I decided it would be at Binghamton. I slowed down before I reached there and after nosing around saw a race track and there I alighted about 4:20 o'clock. The first person to greet me was Mr. Davis, Chairman of the Glad-Hand Committee. He had been driving by in his automobile and stopped when he saw me. I let the water out of my machine, ran it alongside a tree, tied it to the tree, got a big fat Binghamton policeman to watch it all night, put on my skirt over my flying suit, got into My. Davis's automobile and went to a hotel and am going to eat a great big meal when I get through with this. I feel a little cramped and tired, but aside from that, I'm all right. I am happy because I feel I made a good job of it. There wasn't anything to scare me in the flight. I have been flying for a long time and it didn't mean anything to be flying 5,000 and 6,000 feet up, for I happen to be the holder of the women's altitude record, which is 11,000 feet. It was pretty cold, but the suits I had were certainly all right for warmth. I didn't notice the cold, so far as my comfort went, I had on four suits of clothes, each one a good protection. The fact of the matter is that I am so warm now that I don't know what to do. I am going outdoors in a few minutes to get cool and then I am going to shed a few of my suits-not all, for all I have to wear is flying suits and my baggage, consisting of one skirt. I must mention that the only time I felt cold was in passing Cleveland, which was covered with snow. I am going to get a good rest tonight and be in New York at 9 o'clock in the morning. I expect to leave Binghamton at 7 o'clock and fly straight to Governors Island. Chicago-New York Flight "A Cinch" I know it is a cinch to make a non-stop flight from Chicago to New York and just as soon as I can get a machine that will carry enough gasoline, I am going to do the trick. The only thing is that one must have enough gasoline if one isn't going to stop. That was all that preventing my making the flight today, as both my stops were voluntary. Perhaps when I make the non-stop flight, I shall keep a careful record of everything, time and such items. Today I didn't even have an instrument to show drift. But then I didn't miss going any place I intended to go, with the exception of New York. It was the only distance flight I ever tried and I did better than the man who tried it. But I don't mean that the fact that I am a woman makes any difference to speak of. I supposed I ought to say that I am in favor of woman suffrage-but what has that got to do with it? Now I'm going to eat dinner. --- --- RUTH LAW FLIED 590 MILES WITHOUT STOP - Continued from Page 1. - cold during the time she was getting fuel and spark plugs, and it was not until 3:24 P. M. that she was able to get away. Five minutes after the machine took the air, it was out of sight and traveling at about a mile altitude. From Hornell, she flew over Cameron, N. Y., where she was reported at 3:43 P. M. For more than half an hour there was no further report of her passing, and it was feared that she has become lost and gone off her due east course. However, at 4:20 P. M., she reached Binghamton, and announced that she would spend the night there and continue the flight this morning, starting at 7 o'clock. Shortly after landing Miss Law got into touch with THE NEW YORK TIMES by telephone, and gave her own account of her record-breaking flight. Wrapped in wool and leather, though she was, Miss Law suffered keenly from the cold as her craft drove through the chill upper air. When she anded at Hornell she was so numb that men had to assist her to a waiting auto. Her light plane, with its wing sweep of only 29 feet, careened perilously at times. Her altitude was not great during the early part of the journey, and as she left Chicago and disappeared toward Gary, Ind., she was scarcely 200 feet up. Had an accident occurred [[?]] her motor death would have been certain, as the height was not sufficient to volplane to earth. In arising from the ground, spectators gasped as she tipped the planes upward at an angle of more than thirty degrees. During the later hours of her flight, Miss Law was able to achieve a greater altitude, and at times she flex more than 8,000 feet high. --- A CAMEO IN THE SETTING SUN. - All Binghamton Out to See Miss Law Sweep in from the West. Special to The New York Times. BINGHAMTON, N. Y. Nov. 19.-Ruth Law landed on the Kiimer [[?]] stock farm inside the city limits this afternoon. Thousands tried in the fading twilight to get a glimpse of her. Binghamton was just finishing its Sunday morning nap when a newspaper bulletin was posted that Miss Law had left Chicago and would probably be here shortly after noon, and before that hour the streets were thronged with persons gazing into the westward sky. As the day wore on the crowds thinned gradually, but a bulletin that she had landed at Hornell for gasoline gave new life to the interest, and the city resumed its watch. At 3:30 came word that Miss Law had passed Elmira, and fifteen minutes later she had passed Waverly. The sun was sinking behind the rim of hills which surround Binghamton when, in the clear evening air, a speck appeared in the southwest, which grew till the aeroplane stood out clear cut as a cameo against the red disk of the setting sun. Following much the same course taken by Carlstrom, the aeroplane hummed along at the height of 5,000 feet, apparently following the river eastward. Those who had not been told of Miss Law's approach heard the motor and all Binghamton was out to greet her. As she swept along the river front the thousands of watchers were startled to note the motor stopping and see the machine slant earthward. From most of the spectators she was hidden behind the trees and hills, and instantly the cry went up: "She's down! Something's broken!" There was a skurry of automobiles in all directions. It was thought she had landed on the south side of the city, and there was a tangled hurry of machines until word was flashed by tele- wanted to remain in Binghamton. She selected her spot for descent because the big mile track and the many white buildings marked it for her as a fair ground. But she had alighted in Binghamton's fashionable residence district. Samuel H. Dailey, manager of Binghamton Light, Heat, and Power Company, whose home was only a short distance away, insisted that she be the guest of his family, and Miss Law was obliged to decline many offers of entertainment from rich homes along Riverside Drive. But her first care was for her machine. It was in perfect condition, and not a wire needed [?]. Seeing that it was well protected for the night, Miss Law went to Mr. Dalley's house and later to the Arlington Hotel. Afterward she returned to the Dalley home, where she was the centre of an informal reception. Miss Law said the weather was good, except for a southwest wind which retarded her flight. She announced this evening that she would resume her slight promptly at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning, and expected to be in New York in less than two hours. --- LIFTED FROM HER CRAFT --- Miss Law so Benumbed at Hornell That Men Assisted Her to Auto. Special to The New York Times. HORNEL, N. Y., Nov. 19.-"It was great sport. If the gasoline had held out I could have flown all the way from Chicago to New York without a stop." So declared Ruth Law here this afternoon when she landed after her flight from Chicago. To guide the girl in [?] been marked out on the Fair Grounds but the aircraft was only a speck in the sky when it soared over the city. She was so high that she did not see the mark at first, and flew six or seven miles beyond the city, then swung back. She was so exhausted and benumbed by the cold that men had to help her walk across the field to a waiting automobile. In this she was rushed to a downtown hotel, where she had a brief rest and a bite to eat. Greatly refreshed, she hurried back to the field. Meanwhile half a dozen mechanicians from the Curtiss plant at Hammondsport had been busy. The gasoline tank had been replenished and the machine filled with oil. Not a bolt or screw was loose, and at 3:13 o'clock Miss Law again took to the air and soared towards the east, following the main line of the Erie Railroad. In five minutes she was lost to view. --- STARTS IN GUSTY HALF GALE. --- Miss Law Sails Away Toward Indiana Only 200 Feet in the Air. Special to The New York Times. CHICAGO, Nov. 19.-At 2:30 this morning Miss Law, who has been sleeping in a tent on the roof of Morrison Hotel to "acclimate" herself to the bitter cold encountered in altitude flying in Winter, rose and prepared for her start. At 3:30 she reached the hangar at the foot of Madison Street, in Grand Park, on the lake front. There her husband and manager, William Oliver, has been at work all Saturday night with two mechanics, stripping all surplus weight from her little aeroplane. Miss Law gave a careful inspection to every nut and bolt in the machine, so as to avoid an accident such as interfered with the completion in one day of Carlstrom's flight. She had expected to start at 4 o'clock at the latest, but the wind was blowing a fifty-mile gale from the northeast, and a successful start under such conditions was regarded as unlikely. Nevertheless Miss Law got into the machine and went up for a trial trip, twice circling the park. Having satisfied herself that everything was working satisfactorily, she came down and waited amid the little group of spectators for more favorable weather. But it was not till nearly three hours after the time she had set for departure that the wind was favorable enough to make -- wind sweeping in and out among the skyscrapers along Michigan Avenue there was a tumult of erratic air currents. Spectators held their breath as she started, fearing an immediate catastrophe, and so great was her difficulty with the shifting gues that she was not more than 200 feet off the ground when she disappeared toward Gary, Ind. James S. Stephens, First Vice President of the Aero Club of Illinois, said the flight under ordinary circumstances would have been unusual. "But under the handicaps with which she contended," he added, "It was nothing less than remarkable. When she announced her intention to attempt the Chicago to New York flight in her old-time Curtiss success was considered out of the question. Her accomplishment proves that she is one of America's boldest and most skillful aviators." --- NIGHT SIGNALS FOR MISS LAW. --- Army officers were Ready to Receive Her at Governors Island. The news of Miss Law's flight arrived so late in the afternoon that if she had reached Governors Island by nightfall she would have found few persons to meet her. Major Carl F. Hartmann, in charge of aviation at the department headquarters, and Colonel T. Q. Donelson, Inspector General of the department, were on hand with a small group of officers and men and received the bulletins of the latter part of Miss Law's flight from the Aero Club of America. Lookout among the sea [?] at the westward edge of the aviation field were peering up the [?]the little group of officers [?] newspaper men shivered in the shelter of the hangars, near the spot where Student Aviator J. Walter Struthers was killed, and his companion, Charles D. Wiman, was seriously injured in a fall last September. As dusk came on Major Hartmann has flares lit which had been prepared. These were huge pans of gasoline, which blazed for a hundred yards along the sea wall north of the lighthouse that marks the southernmost point. They outlined clearly the edge of the island and would have permitted the flyer, who is familiar with Governors Island, to make a landing in entire safety. It was about half past 5 when the news was received by telephone that Miss Law had landed at Binghamton and the party disbanded. [image] --- Finest Feat of Year, Calstrom's Opinion --- Says Miss Law Has Set Mark for Men Aviators --Calls Her "One of the Nerviest Fliers." --- Victor Carlstom, whose cross-country record Ruth Law broke yesterday, paid quick and spontaneous tribute to her performance. "Her flight would have been a fine thing for a man to do," he said last night, "and when you stop to think that the new record was made by a woman, it is wonderful. None of us thought she would make any distance, much less break the record. "To my mind, it is the greatest performance of the year. When you take into consideration that she was flying an old Mouel D Curtisa machine with a 100-hoursepower motor, it seems more remarkable than ever. In this machine, which Miss Law has been flying for some time in exhibitions, she sits in front of the motor with no protection from the wind. It is a 'pusher' machine, with the propeller in the rear, and has nothing like the speed of the more modern curt.ss machines. "I think her performance is one of the pluckiest exhibitions ever given. The fact that she must have faced intense cold for more than five hours, having only the protection of her flying suit, make it all the more extraordinary. Of course, I know that Miss Law is as game as they make them, but I did not think she would have the endurance to fly far enough to break my record. In face, I don't know that she has ever flown more than half an hour at a time. I know that this is her first cross-country flight, and I consider it all the more marvelous for that fact. "Miss Law has set a mark for all of us. I doubt if there are more than three or four men aviators who could make the distance she did. I want to take a try at the Chicago to New York fight as soon as I can. With the new speed scout recently finished at the Curtiss plant in Buffalo I feel sure that I could set a new record by coming straight through without stopping. I hope to have the chance. "By stopping at Binghamton Miss Law did the sensible thing. She would have found it almost imposible to come through to Governors Island in the dark, and would probably have been lost. Even now, if she is able to get from Binghamton to Governors Island in less than three hours, she will set a new record for the Chicago-New York flight. With a good wind Miss Law might do this. "With all the rest of the aviation crowd, I hope she succeeds in this. Miss Law is one of the nerviest fliers in the business and deserves the greatest credit for the flight." --- HAWLEY HAD MISGIVINGS. --- Feared for Miss Law to Fly at This Season--Commends Pluck. Alan Hawley. President of the Aero Club of America, said: "Miss Law Deserves great credit for her flight. I must admit that I felt some misgivings about it when she wrote me several weeks ago stating that it was her intention to make such a flight, and, while commending her for her pluck, the officials of the Aero Club hoped she would not undertake it. "We feared particularly, as we were drawing toward Winter, and the weather was so uncertain and liable to sudden changes, that the chances of success would not be so good as in a more settled season." Henry Woodhouse, a Governor of the Aero Club, said: "Miss Law's flight is another proof that mall carrying lines could be established between points 500 miles apart, to be operated practically all the year round, and between points 1,000 miles apart to be operated at least six months in the year, when the days are longer. "While the flights of Victor Carlstrom and Miss Law were made in machines that are partly open and which leave the aviator exposed to the elements, aeroplanes are no available which have a cabin warmed by the exhaust from the motor, so that the pilot can sit there and fly comfortably in most severe Winter conditions. At the speed American aeronautics are being developed, flights between Chicago and New York will be common during the coming year. "Miss Law deserves the highest commendation for adding a link to the trail blazed by Victor Carlstrom, and it is impossible to praise her flight too highly. It would have been highly creditable for a man-for a woman it is magnificent." David H. McCulloch, veteran pilot and instructor, said: "You can't say too much in her favor. It was a flight that took nerve and great endurance--the sort of endurance that one might only expect from a man who had trained for months and was hardened by years of flying. I think it was wonderful, and I know every one who knows nything about the cross-country game will agree with them." Others who expressed admiration and marveled at Miss Law's pluck and ability were Evert Jansen Wedell, Chrles Jerome Edwards, Augustus Post, and Douglas Wardrop, editor of Aerial Age. --- SHE HOLDS OTHER RECORDS. --- Won Altitude Competition for Women---Has Been Licensed 4 Years. A sister of Rodman Law, famed as the "human fly" and parachute jumper, Miss Law, whose full name is Ruth Bancroft Law, was borne on March 21, 1887, in Lynn Mass. She received her pilot's certificate on Nov. 20, 1912, four years ago today, taking her tests with a Wright biplane. Since that time she has made thousands of exhibition and passenger-carrying flights. She broke the altitude record for women on May 27 of this year. In company with several other aviators, she appeared at the Military Tournament at Sheepshead Bay. They all competed in the altitude contest, and Miss Law set the high mark for women by flying 11,-200 feet. Victor Carlstrom on this occasion tried for altitude in a baby scout machine, but was unable to do more than 9,000 feet. On Sept. 3, 1914, Miss Law made what was then the world's record for passenger carrying by a woman, when she went up at Garden City with Miss Pearl McGrath and Richard R. Sinclair of this city. She remained in the air for ten minutes and flew at about 800 feet altitude. Her brother Rodman has figured in many daring exploits. One of the most recent was when he dropped from an aeroplane, at an elevation of 3,000 feet, and soared safely to earth in a parachute. Before this, he attempted to up in a rocket containing 900 pounds of powder, but this exploded and ruined his experiment. Law has also jumped off the Bankers' Trust Company Building, the Statue of Liberty, and several the bridges between New York and Brooklyn. In February, 1914, he got the soubriquet, the "human fly," when he climbed up the front of a number of high buildings, using only his bare hands. At the Military Tournament, Law went up in a balloon, which he blew up with dynamite, and then escaped safely to earth by means of his parachute. --- AUTO KILLS BOY AT PLAY. --- Abram Marcus, 7 Years Old, Rune in Front of Boynoton's Car. Abram Marcus, 7 years old, was instantly killed by an automobile in from of his home at 73 Ellison Street, Paterson, yesterday afternoon. The child ran out from behind an ice wagon as the autoobile, owned and driven by Kenneth Boynton of 456 East Thirty-fouth Street, Paterson, approached rapidly. The child was taken to the Paterson Hospital by Mr. Boynton in his automobile. He was later arrested on his own recognizance, it being the opinion of the police that he had not been responsible for the accident. [Image]
