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ON THE RIGHT IS MISS RUTH LAW, THE INQUIRER AVIATRIX, TAKEN YESTERDAY AT THE BEGINNING OF ONE OF HER FLIGHTS. ON THE LEFT IS SHOWN THE AEROPLANE RIDING AT WHAT SEEMS A DANGEROUS ANGLE

Watch for Inquirer Aeroplane Looping the Loop Over Penn

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altitude flying, having climbed 11,500 feet in the air. She is regarded as one of the nerviest and most skillful women aviators who has ever flown in the United States. Her night performances are equally as complete as the day and made more adventurous on account of the addition of the lights and explosives.

Miss Law is an attractive young woman with light hair, blue eyes and rosy cheeks. She is a slight build and her appearance gives no indication of the courage required for success in her profession.

"I am delighted to be in Philadelphia," she said yesterday. "I have long had a desire to encircle your City Hall. And I did so want to try to loop-the-loop right over the top of Billy Penn. You see, I was a New Yorker for fifteen years and got to know quite a bit about your City. 

"Since I arrived here several days ago I have been busy exploring. Naturally my first interest was in City Hall tower. I had read of other aviators who encircled the tower and I wanted to have the honor of being the first woman to try the stunt. 

"Just to get the lay of the city, I made a trial trip on Saturday. From an aeroplane Philadelphia is beautiful. Its streets are laid out with such regularity and it is possible to distinguish most any point even from an altitude of 10,000 feet. 

The girl aviator began her career in the air four years ago. At that time she was visiting near a military aviation training grounds. Her interest in flying became so great, she began to take lessons. Within six weeks she had made her first exhibition flight. 

Cures Her Nervousness

"I don't know whether it would e a good treatment for all nervous women," said Miss Law laughingly relying to such a question, "but flying steadies me. I never find myself getting nervous while in the air, but I do notice a better control of nerves and brain as a result of the necessity for quick thinking. Personally, I do not regard sensible flying as dangerous as it has been colored; it isn't more so than automobiling. I am certain.  

I think trick flying is the least dangerous too. This may sound strange

THE FLORIDA METROPOLIS-Florida's Greatest Newspaper-WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1915.

AVIATOR HOLDS DAYTONAITES SPELLBOUND WITH PERFORMANCE

MISS RUTH B. LAW, SENSATIONAL WOMAN LOOP-THE-LOOP ARTIST

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BY WALTER EARLY.

Daytona, Dec 29.-Miss Ruth Bancroft Law, the aviatrix, who is now giving daily exhibition flights along the beach at Daytona, is one of the most daring persons the writer has ever seen. While The Florida Metrop-

In circles while at the height mentioned, and when she got the proper location, began to "loop the loop," making six complete "loops" one after another, yet before coming to the ground Miss Law made the machine do another new kind of "loop" by turning

The Florida Metropolis man was the first to congratulate Miss Law upon the successful termination of so hazardous an undertaking. During the exhibition the "bird woman" flew over

RUTH LAW'S DARE-DEVEL STUNTS IN MID-AIR YESTERDAY AFTERN'N WIN HER A $40,000 CONTRACT

Miss Ruth Law, the famous aviatrix, known the country over as the "Queen of the Air", and the most daring of all women to fly a machine, last night closed and signed a twenty week contract to make exhibition flights in the middle and western states during the coming summer, with the F.M. Barns Company, Inc., at the minimum rate of two thousand dollars per week. 

Ruth Law, who is not other than Mrs. Charles Oliver, and who originally was Miss Ruth Bancroft Law, has been coming to Seabreeze for a number seasons, and has been doing exhibition flying for the benefit of the tourists as a drawing card for this section, but never before has Miss Law defied the laws of Gravitation or attempted the seemingly death, attached stunts she did yesterday afternoon. 

F.M. Barnes, one of the foremost and widely known men in the amusement enterprize business of the states, arrived from Chicago yesterday afternoon, making a special trip from that city to Seabreeze, to watch this queen of the air work, and perform the marvels of which most are her own originations. 

Miss Law ascended into the air about 2:30 yesterday afternoon, and performed four of the most awe inspiring and sensational feats ever witnessed with the human eye. Miss Law performed the stunts that her contract calls for under the four heads, loop-the-loop, vertical dive, spiral dive and aerial cartwheel. 

Miss Law is the first woman to have ever successfully looped-the-loop, with a flying machine in mid air, and the first person to have ever performed that death defying stunt in Florida, having looped-the-loop, six times in succession in one flight, ten days before A.C. Beach, who claims the honor. 

Miss Law commenced this loop, at an altitude of over four thousand feet, and while upside down at no