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NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER

Line to Miss Law.
Hats off to Miss Ruth Bancroft Law
Who finished her flight without a flaw,
Reached Governor's Island, a worthy faet,
With sirship and captain in perfect taet.
We are proud to read that the world is stirred
At the record of our American bird,
Who for daring and bravery comes to the front
As the winner of a twenty-four karat stunt.

We refuse to attribute this triumph to luck, 
Rather say it was won through unusual pluck,
It's the nerviest feat in the air line today
And the girl who performed it, the world will say,
Has won the distinction, she so richly deserves, 
In an out-of-date airship pronounced unfit,
In endurance and safety for such a trip.

But our girl brought the sky traveler safely to port
And ever since has been holding the fort.
The skilful maneuvering of her aerial course
Has won admiration from every source.
Our best congratulations and praises sincere
For the girl who so gallantly threw away fear, 
With lawful, assurance we proudly declare
Your nation's best wishes and Uncle Cam's kisses
To our Heroine of the Air
RACHEL BATES.

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NAME OF PAPER Tribune 
CITY New York City
DATE NOV 21 1916
The Women Who Flew
  Miss Ruth Law, fair, small and twenty-five, shattered the long distance air record of America when she landed on the Hornell fair grounds, 590 miles east of Chicago. She also crossed another item off the once long list of things no woman can do. On both counts, we applaud and congratulate her.
  It has been a bad century for that historic list of non-womanly occupations. The few years thus far run have done more to upset the established facts about women than the whole century preceding. The war did it. But for the episode touching an Archduke and its varied con-sequences, we should still be listening to our conservative friends, contending not only that woman's place is in the home, but that she is utterly incapable of defending that home, and that therefore she is of obligation a helpless ward of man. How these helpless wards have left their homes to make shells and run railroads and generally do a good half of the work of defending their homes is now history. The beautiful assumption of woman's hopeless inferiority to man has beautifully glimmered.
  With this new record has come the discovery that a woman can do an amazing array of things and still be a woman. Miss Ruth Law, for example. Without laying too much stress on the fact that she carried a skirt with her all the way from Chicago to New York and donned it over her bloomers as soon as she struck land, the point is significant. Unquestionably, it is possible to hold the non-stop air record of American and remain distinctly feminine-even agreeably and charmingly so. All thing considered, we should be inclined to rate this detail as a very important part of Miss Law's very important achievement.

[[Check]]
Check No. 2185
Aero Club of America
Membership Corporation
NEW YORK, N. Y., 18th December 1916
PAY TO THE ORDER OF Ruth Law $2500 00/100
Twentyfive Hundred 00/100 DOLLARS
Special Assessment "L" 
AERO CLUB OF AMERICA
TO THE LINCOLN NATION BANK 
NEY YORK CITY

Evening World Daily Magazine
Congulations! 
Copyright, 1916
by the Free Publishing Co.
(The New York Evening World.)
By J.H. Cassel 
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WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO.
The young woman who man two new American aviation

TOPICS OF THE TIMES
An Aviator is She in Reality.
  As the women of this day are not content- perhaps they never were more than resigned-when told some-thing they have done as a magnificent achievement to have been accomplished by a woman, it is both safer and more gracious to admit, or rather to proclaim without any qualification, that the flight of RUTH LAW from Chicago to New York put her in the rank of the great aviators. Some commentators on her feat take the needless trouble or calling her an "aviatrix," others an "aviatrice." Both are good enough words, and the one as good as the other, but as Miss LAW showed all those qualities-courage, endurance, skill sense of direction and position- that are required for the navigation of the air, there is no necessity, and hardly an excuse, for giving her a name that emphasizes the fact, professionally irrelevant, of sex.
  As she did not expect or try to make a non-stop flight between the two cities, her two descents are important only in that they still leave a "record" for her or somebody else to set. If, or rather when, such journeys come to be for practical purposes-the transporta-tion of malls or a passenger pressed for time-it is improbable that more than 300 or 400 miles without a stop will be attempted, for that would sufficiently stress both the machine and its operator. We do not expect either locomotives or locomotive engineers to make more than a small part of such distances with our fast trains, and doubtless we shall be equally considerate as regards serial expresses.
  Not a little interest is added to Miss Law's flight because her machine was a small one and was provided with a notably simple equipment of instruments to assist in its guidance. The able workman, as is well known, likes the best tools and plenty of them, but in case of need he can get along with few and poor ones, and with them produce results impossible with any armamentarium for the amateur or tyro. Evidently Miss LAW can supply many lacks by the use of brains.
  It was, however, a serious oversight for her not to take along something to eat on the way. Food, judiciously selected, would have made her task far less exhausting, and  helped her to endure the cold of the upper airs.

A BIG ACHIEVEMENT.
  There are high flyers and high flyers. Miss Ruth Bancroft Law is one of them. The flight of the aviatrix from Chicago to New York with but one stop and in record-breaking time, is another indication that women can succeed in almost any line. Miss Law is a daring person and if she possessed the timidness ordinarially attributed to women, she would have never made the wonderful record that she did yesterday.
  Such demonstration go to prove that the aeroplane is no longer an experiment but a practical machine. Accidents come from fool-hardy experiments rather than sane use. Miss Law will do well to stick to such demon-

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