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acclimate herself to the higher altitudes. She planned to start at 4 o'clock yesterday morning and did appear at the hangar in Grant Park in half an hour before that time. GALE RACES FROM LAKE. A northeaster tore in from the lake at thirty miles an hour. As the plane, a Curtiss tractor of the army scout type, was wheeled away from its shed the wind almost wrestled it from the dozen attendants. It was then that the mechanicians began to plead with the daring aviatrix to wait a more auspicious time to start. Her only reply was to begin personal examination of every bolt, wire and stay. She spent half an hour going over the engine, dropping oil here, "hard grease" there, and cleaning surplus away in another place. By 6:30 she was satisfied. The wind was dying down perceptibly. Miss Law climbed into the pilot seat, the mechanics spun the propellers and she sailed out over Lake Michigan, the craft's exhaust roaring and shooting flame. SOARS TO 3,500 FEET. She spiralled to 3,500 feet and dipped and glided for twenty minutes to satisfy herself as tot he condition of both plane and engine. She then made a perfect landing with a "crow drop," to eliminate possibility of injuring the running gear, and had the machine men make one or two minor adjustments. The garments she had chosen to protect her against cold on the long trip were donned. When Miss Law left the hotel she had on two suits of woolen underwear, a suit of silk and an outside one of leather. At the field she added a heavy fur-lined overcoat, two pair of woolen stockings, heavy shoes and leather puttees. On her head she wore a wool skull cap, a wool helmet reaching her shoulders and a leather helmet. Goggles, with a drop flap to protect her nose from freezing, gloves of a type used by Lieutenant Schackleton on his Antarctic explorations, and a final painting with oil of the parts of her face that remained exposed, completed the preparations. CAN HARDLY WALK. Burdened with the mass of clothing so that she could scarcely walk, Miss Law was lifted into the long narrow seat and strapped down. The mechanicians tried the engine and propeller for nearly two minutes to satisfy themselves that engine and plane were properly attuned and then released their grips. With the speed of a loosed hound the light craft slid away over the level stretch of ground and took to the air within a hundred feet. Miss Law worked the elevating rudders rapidly, climbing to a 3,000-foot level in seventy seconds, all in a half-mile spiral. She headed due south from the park, disappearing in approximately a minute from the view of the hundreds who braved the early morning chill to see her start. - DARING BROTHER ENTICED RUTH LAW TO AIR CAREER - An aeroplane was drawing circles in the sky over Marblehead, Mass. The machine was so high that it looked like a dead leaf floating in an air eddy. From the seeming leaf a dark speck detached itself and came straight down like a plummet, so fast that in a few seconds it ceased to appear as a speck, and was visibly a man descending by a parachute. "That's my brother," observed a serene young woman, one of a crowd of spectators. "I guess I'll learn to fly, too-it must be fun." The girl was Ruth Bancroft Law, whose pulse, her friends believe, never has varied a beat in all her 'steen - Player-Piano Souvenir Roll (No Charge) To introduce our new Roll Department in an especial manner we will present to every caller this week who owns a player piano of any description choice of a latest Hawaiian piece; march intermezzo or popular song roll. Ask for It Lyon & Healy Wabash Ave. Cor. Jackson Blvd. 567. years. The incident occurred five years ago. Without delay Miss Law began to take lessons in aviation. She speedily learned to run her own machine, and she has been astonishing the aviation world ever since. In 1912 she broke the altitude record for women, and it was only a few months ago that she made a series of startling flights over Chicago just to show what an enemy aviator, in case of war, would be able to do to the city. In a few minutes she had dropped toy bombs which, had they been real, would have destroyed the Blackstone Hotel, the Federal Building, the Peoples Gas Building and the Union Station. Then, just as a flourish, she looped the loop over and over again in a series of hoop-like convolutions across the sky and "escaped." DENIES SHE HAS NERVES. Miss Law does not claim to be fearless-although none would dispute her if she did make such a claim. But she says she has no nerves, which means that she has extraordinarily good nerves and that she would undoubtedly pass with high honors the nerve tests that are applied to applicants for jobs in the French military aviation service. In those tests a pulse-recording machine is attached to the wrist of the applicant. Then, at an unexpected moment, a revolver is fired at a distance of two or three feet: If the pulse "jumps," the applicant is rejected. But Miss Law's pulse does not "jump." In all her experience in the air-and she has made hundreds of flights both with and without passengers she has never lost her cool alertness for an instant, it is said, which may account for the fact that she is alive. Jewels Are Trap for Chloroform House Breaker - Terre Haute Burglar Captured After He Drugs City Comptroller and Wife. - TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 19.-An alleged "chloroform burglar" of unusual daring was captured here today after having obtained jewelry and money amounting to several thousand dollars, it is charged, from the home of Charles D. Mancourt, the City Comptroller. "I awakened later than usual," Mr. Mancourt told the police, "and felt very ill. As soon as I was fully awake I realized that I had been chloroformed. My first anxiety was for Mrs. Mancourt, who had not yet awakened. She was easily aroused, but she also was ill. I gave the alarm." Detectives helped Mr. and Mrs. Mancourt to take stock of their loss. The burglar had taken Mr. Mancourt's coat, trousers and vest, two diamond rings, a $1,000 diamond-studded watch and a purse containing several hundred dollars. At the same time a clew was found which led the detectives to a room in another quarter of the city. There they surprised and arrested a man who gave the name of George Scales, alias Charles Edwards. The jewelry and some checks belonging to Mr. Mancourt are alleged to have been found in Scales' room. The police say he confessed the Mancourt robbery and nearly a dozen others. Scales told the police he was on parole from the Ohio penitentiary, where he was sent two years ago for highway robbery. He also served a term, he said, in the Indiana reformatory. He denied having used chloroform. - Shock Kills Man as His Auto Hits Woman - BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-Ezra H. Pearsall, retired cigar manufacturer, was shocked to death to-day when the automobile in which he was riding ran down a woman motorcyclist at Gregorytown, Westchester County. Mrs. William Finche, the cyclist, suffered a dislocated shoulder. Pearsall, who was sixty-eight years old, shrieked and fell dead. - Two Die When Auto Hits Troller Head-On - RACINE, Wis., Nov. 19-Clarence McLaughlin, aged twenty-five, and John H. Rowan, twenty-eight, were instantly killed at midnight when McLaughlin's automobile collided headon with an interurban car on the Milwaukee, Racine & Kenosha Line. It is supposed McLaughlin failed to notice the car because its headlight had been dimmed. - BUSINESS NOTICE. - When Your Eyes Need Care Try Murine Eye Remedy Jacob H. Schiff Calls Young Women N.Y.'s Temptation - Others at Symposium at Gotham's Lure Cite Love of Pleasure, Clothes and Young Men. - NEW YORK, Nov. 19-The temptations New York holds out to young men and women were the subject of a symposium by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of the Columbia University; Jacob H. Schiff and others at St. Andrew's Methodist Church to-day in response to a request by the pastor, the Rev. Fred Winslo Adams. The chief temptation for young men, they said, were: Jacob H. Schiff-"Young women." Nicholas Murray Butler-"To spend more than their incomes." Justice Mitchell-"To achieve wealth by accepting low standards." The chief temptation for women were: Jacob H.Schiff-"Young women." Katherine B. Davis of the Parole Commission-"The desire for pleasure." Mabel Cratty, General Secretary National Y.W.C.A.-"Clothes." "Who's Elected?" He Cables From Guinea ––––––– BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.––An American in British Guinea cabled the State Department to-day asking who was elected President. He prepaid a reply of five words. [[continued from above]] losses. Our troops, pushing behind the enemy, have reached the Orosova-Craiova Railroad. South of Rothenthurm Pass the Caliman-Sufel road has been crossed. The total booty captured by the Ninth Array from November 1 to November 18 is 189 officers and 19,338 men, 26 cannon, 17 ammunition cars and 72 machine guns. In the Dobrudja there were patrol engagements. Near Silistria the artillery and infantry fire is livelier. ROUMANIANS CLAIM GAINS. BUCHAREST,Nov 19.---A further Roumanian advance in the region of Dragoalavele is reported by the War Office to-day. Heavy fighting is going on in the Juil and Gilort Valleys. The statement says: On the northern and northwestern fronts there is nothing new to report. On the western Moldovian frontier and the northern frontier from La Muntelu to the Prahova Valley we repulsed enemy attacks. In the region of Dragoslavele we continued to advance, capturing four officers and eighty soldiers, two cannon, two machine guns and five munition wagons. In the Alt Valley violent fighting continues. In the Gilort Valley there were violent combats. On the Danube and in Dobrudja the artillery and infantry fire slackened. Cincinnati Better Baby Experiment's Center BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK, Nov. 19.---Cincinnati has been selected for the experiment for better babies and better democracy that is to be carried on by the national social unit organization. Gifford Pinchot, president of the organizations, said Dr. Franklin H. Martin of Chicago, recently appointed by President Wilson medical member of the council of the national defense, would act as the organization's medical representative and form a national group of physicians. 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"THE AEOLIAN COMPANY" ad includes an illustration of two women listening to a phonograph.
"DESKS" ad includes an illustration of a roll-top desk with six drawers, three on each side, arranged vertically, and eight legs, four on each side.
