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AMAZES WORLD'S EXPERTS
Non-Stop Records
Sub-Identenant A. Marschal, from Nancy, France, to Chelm, Poland, via Berlin, 812.5 miles.
Ruth Law, Chicago to Hornell, N.Y., 590 miles.
M. Deroye, 486.7 miles, Italy.
Victor Carlstrom, Chicago to Erie, Pa., 452 miles.
Captain De Beauchamp, Nancy to St. Dona di Plave, Italy, 437 miles.
(By United Press.)
  NEW YORK, Nov. 20-Ruth Law, a smiling little woman, took her place as the premier woman aviator of the world today, when she beat the American record for cross country flying. She landed at Governor's Island at 9:38 a. m., having flown 840 miles from Chicago in an old style exhibition aeroplane.
  Miss Law's record stands as the second longest flight that has ever been made. Her flight of 590 miles is exceeded only by that of Sub-Lieutenant Marchal of the French army, who flew from Nancy to Chelm, Poland, in June of this year. The distance of this flight was 812.5 miles.
  Miss Law made but two stops, the first at Hornell, the second at Binghamton, N. Y. last night, when she was forced to alight because she had run out of gasoline.
  BEAT CARLSTROM'S RECORD
  Fully exposed to the wind and cold owing to the fact that the type of machine she drove forced her to sit out in front of her motor without any shield for protection, the plucky young woman outstripped Victor Carlstrom's record for continuous cross country flight, made on November 2, in the very newest type of machine, and then continued her journey and flew further than has any woman before in history.
  Miss Law left Chicago at 7:25 a. m. (Central time) Sunday morning. She reached Hornell-590 miles away-at 3:34 p. m., continued 120 miles further to Binghamton at 4:20 p. m. and resumed her flight early this morning.
  Her flying time for the entire trip was 8 hours 59 minutes.
  Numb with cold, Miss Law was helped from her aeroplane at Governor's Island by Major General Wood, Henry Woodhouse and Augustus Post, the latter two governors of the Aero Club of America. The plucky little woman was immediately hustled into an automobile and rushed to an army officer's house to "thaw out."
    FLIES THROUGH FOG.
  The last leg of the flight-270 miles-was made through a dense fog. Miss Law said the fog was so heavy that she was forced to fly very low,
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Ruth, your wildest dreams must now be realized you have got in K C B's column
Ben

Ye Town Gossip
by K. C. B.
George W. Perkins
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New York City
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Dear George,
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I see by the papers.
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That the Governor.
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Has made you the chairman.
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Of a commission.
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That's supposed to find out.
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Why it is.
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That we eat.
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Expensive food.
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And why it is.
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That expensive food.
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Costs so much.
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And while you're at it.
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I want to ask you.
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If you will find out.
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Why it is.
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That when you pay $3.
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To go to dinner.
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With some club.
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At some hotel.
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That the chef.
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Will take $2.
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Out of the three.
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And go out.
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And buy a lot of goo.
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And sauces.
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And green peppers.
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And a lot of other stuff.
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And come back.
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And take a piece.
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Of perfectly good meat.
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Or vegetable.
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Or whatever it is.
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That they hide.
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Under the goo.
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And mess it all up.
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And hand it to you.
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And make you eat it.
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And lie.
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And say you like it.
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And I'm sending you.
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In a little tin box.
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Something I got.
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At the McAlpin.
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Monday night.
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And I want to ask your committee.
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If they can tell me.
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What it is.
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I claim.
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That the little lumps in it.
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Are made of liver.
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And Ruth Law.
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Says they're made of lobster.
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And if it's lobster.
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I want to know.
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Because lobster.
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Always makes me sick.
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And I ate some of it.
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And if I'm going to be sick.
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I want to know.
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And George.
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If you've any idea.
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You're going to reduce.
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The cost of living.
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Please do it.
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As soon as you can.
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Because I'm going housekeeping.
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Along about Christmas.
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I thank you.
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Miss Law Is Premier Flyer Now
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Aviatrix, in Her First Effort, Shatters Aviation Long-Distance Records
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SHE BEATS CARLSTROM
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by Associated Press]
BINGHAMTON, N Y, Nov 19— Attempting a non-stop flight from Chicago to New York, Miss Ruth Law, guiding a Curtiss biplane of the military scout type, shattered all American long-distance aviation records for a single flight today when she flew from Chicago to Hornell, N Y, a distance by railroad of about 660 miles, bettering by about 100 miles the record made by Victor Carlstrom on November 2.

A delayed start, and a cross wind that cut down her speed and forced her to descend to replenish the gasoline supply, were responsible for her failure to reach New York City, Miss Law said after her arrival at Binghamton this afternoon at 4:20 o'clock.

Her First Long Flight
Before today, this law had never made a single flight longer than 25 miles. Her machine, a small biplane, has a spread of wings less than half that of the one Carlstrom used. It was not specially designed for the occasion.

Miss Law covered a distance of about 785 miles in six and 50 minutes, time being deducted for the descent at Hornell. The 1st 660 miles, the distance by rail between Chicago and Hornell, was made without a stop, breaking the non-stop flight record.

Miss Law left Chicago at 8:25 a m, Eastern time. She had expected to start before that hour, but was delayed by experiments with the carbureter for an hour and a half. In the time thus lost the aviatrix might have covered the remaining distance to New York. At the outset of her flight a strong wind blew toward the east. Aided by this, she made an average speed of 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of about 6,000 feet. During the last 200 miles, before the stop at Hornell, a sharp cross wind blew, with the result that her gasoline tank was soon emptied. She glided 2 miles into Cornell at 2:07 p m.

Flies to New York Today
After replenishing her supply of gasoline miss Law flew the remaining 117 miles to Binghamton without mishap. Here darkness overtook her and she was forced to descend. She intends to continue to New York at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Miss Law's experience has been gained wholly in short exhibition flights. Her flight today was held under the auspices of the Aero Club of America.

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The attitude of the German Admiralty seems to be that a non-combatant who puts his trust in the sacredness of international law is open to the charge of frivolity.
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Miss LAW is deserving of the fame that has come to her. She has found means of getting away from Chicago at the rate of over a hundred miles an hour.
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How can any permanent agreement between WILSON and CARRANZA be made to which Villa does not subscribe?
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On a visit to Lakewood JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER has taken his cows with him. How much more sensible than NOAH, who impeded his travels with so many attractive but non-productive animals.
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Nowadays it is RUTH amid the alien clouds.
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The appeal of WERNER HORN, awaiting trial for dynamiting the International Bridge at Vanceboro, Me., from the dismissal of his suit for release on habeas corpus, was advanced yesterday by the Supreme Court for hearing on January 8. The prospect now is that HORN'S case may outlast the war which furnished the excuse for his "military" attack on the bridge.
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Monastir, says Berlin, was "without any military importance." The same was said of Verdun.
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The Government fisheries Bureau at Beaufort, N. C., Announces that it has propagated this year 2,624 diamond back terrapin; so the bottom may drop out of the food market at any moment.
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What chance has man against woman for a non-stop record?

Drawbacks of Fame.
MISS RUTH LAW, the somewhat-surprised-at-herself young woman who broke the American non-stop record in American aviation a few days ago, is now sustaining as best she can drawbacks which attend sudden fame. She is kept busy driving away the people who want to label soaps, corsets, cold cream, perfumes and petticoats with her name, and those who want her to ride upside down in a motor cycle, and to lecture to girls' schools. 

It appears that MISS LAW is not interested in any business projects which do not tend to advance the art and science of flying. She doesn't see why she should ride a motor cycle around and inverted track, or be photographed in Somebody's new style of aviation costume, or give her name to an aviator's helmet which is not at all what she wore in her flight, and no better. She declares that she, is absolutely devoted to the cause of aviation, and the only offer which has interested her is a proposal for a 10 weeks' series of lectures in the large cities of the country. Somebody has offered her $25,000 for such a course, and she would carry her little biplane with her as a bit of "very ocular proof." This idea pleases her.

The young woman is much bored at present by the crowd of self-interested persons who want to exploit her, but the same poise and philosophy with which her character must be fully penetrated are bound to stand her in good stead. A thousand attempts may be made to hitch a string to her kite, to get advertising for something else part of her own great exploit, but she can afford regard these things serenely; hi good luck crown her own skill, bravery and patience, and no more popular aviator has ever stepped from the cramping chill of a hard flight into the blaze of popular enthusiasm. The fact that a woman should have one such a triumph adds piquancy to the situation. Not all women could do what she has done, but it is proved that one woman could, for she has done it. It is more of a triumph for aviation than for feminism, which is as it should be. Any other view of the exploit would be unworthy of so plucky and intelligent a woman. The Aero Club is to give her a dinner; the whole town is happy to drink her health.

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AERO HEROINE — miss Ruth Law, holder of the aeroplane record for distance without a stop in her spectacular flight from Chicago to New York.
(Photograph copyright by Underwood & Underwood.)

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