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[[FIVE NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS]]
Ruth Law, Famous Flyer, Here
BATTLE-SCARRED FRENCH POLICE DOG GUARDS GIRL WHO HOLDS AMERICAN LONG DISTANCE RECORD

MISS RUTH LAW.
  A HUGE, ferocious-looking dog which barked at timid ladies and hotel porters  was in the rotunda of the King Edward Hotel this morning, guarding a slim girlish figure in a well cut khaki aviation uniform. He came in for almost more attention than his mistress, who is Miss Ruth Law, the pioneer woman aviator of the United States.
  "Boileau doesn't seen to to understand that he must wait this morning," said the youthful flier as she patted the dogs head.
  "Boileau" is a French police dog who has been doing his bit among the soldiers in the trenches.    He has been wounded on his nose, but skillful surgery mended him successfully, and he is without any scar to show that he has been in the thick of things.
  But it was Miss Ruth Law, not the French war dog, who was to be interviewed.
  Looking fresh and youthful, with a wonderfully clear pink and white complexion, like a child's, Miss Law gives the impression of being self possessed and level headed. She has blue eyes, finely cut features, an unusually pleasant smile, and is very attractive in the military costume. FIRST FLIGHT IN 1912,
WAS MADE IN BAY STATE.
  Miss Ruth Law has been flying since 1912. Her first flight was at Marblehead, the military aviation school just outside Boston. The school in those days was not under Government control. her instructor was the famous American yachtsman Mr. W. Sterling Burgess.  She has flown from Chicago to New York, a distance of 950 miles, in nine hours and one minute. This is a record-breaker, and Miss Law still holds the palm for the American long distance flight.  This was  made in a Wright airplane.
  Miss Law has come to Toronto to fly on Saturday at the automobile races on the Exhibition track. She is to compete with the motor cars in her specially-constructed Moraine-Sauinier monoplane, and is to rise not more than fifteen feet from the ground. This will be an exceptionally trying test of skill, as it is dangerous to fly so near the ground.
MARRIED FOR FIVE YEARS;
HUSBAND DOES NOT CARE FOR FLYING
 Though she appears to be very young, Miss Law has been married five years. Her married name is Mrs. Charles Oliver. Her husband is here with her.
 "My husband doesn't care for flying at all," she acknowledged with a laugh. "He came up with me once, and he said he never wanted to do so again."
  During the seven years she has been flying, not once has an accident occurred.
 "I always touch wood when I tell people I've never had an accident," she laughed..
 "No, I don't think I was particularly nervous about going up the first time alone," stated this sportswoman, "but I stayed up fully half an hour. The difficult thing to me seemed to be able to come down. I've always landed perfectly safely, but landing is one of the most difficult things to learn."
 On Saturday Miss Law will give an exhibition of looping the loop, modern war tactics, vertical dives, spiral dives, and numerous other clever feats.
MET MANY FAMOUS "ACES"
WHILE ON VISIT TO FRANCE.
 In January, February and March, 1917, she was in England and France studying military advance in aviation. While at Paris she met many of the famous flyers—Guynemer, Nungesser, Navarre and others. She considers the latest model of Rolls-Royce airplane, which she saw at Hendon, near London, the best that has yet been built. Her reception in Paris was very cordial, and she received permission from the chief of the French Military Aviation Corps to fly within a radius of thirty to forty miles of the city.

Work Is Recipe of Ruth Law

Will women make good in aviation? The question has been asked so many times, I suppose because I am a woman and an aviatrix. People think I should be able to answer that question better than any one else. How many times have you been asked if women will make good in your line of endeavor? Can you answer the question fairly? I can't. Don't you begin to think at once of the seemingly insurmountable difficulties that you were able to overcome just by a stroke of

[[Picture of Ruth Law, wearing a cape and a helmet with goggles]]
Ruth Law.

luck? Of the hardships that you put up with before you knew success? Of the disappointments and the steady plugging required to get on top?
I think of these things when a girl comes for advice on aviation as a profession. I think of how easy it would have been for me to fail and I am about to advise her not to try flying, even as you have perhaps advised some novice not to enter your profession. Then I realize that perhaps this or that girl is capable and willing to work just as hard as I did. What one woman can do there are bound to be other women who can do the same thing. What right have I to discourage them, even if I do know that learning --really learning to fly from the inside out-- is a tough job for a woman. But I loved it and liking a thing goes a long way toward making it successful.
In the early days of flying when I couldn't afford the best mechanics and even the best were none too good, I realized the importance of learning to overhaul my own motor, to set up or take apart the airplane to make my own repairs. Even now it isn't safe to pilot your own airplane unless you thoroughly know the mechanical working of the machine, Haven't you often heard an auto go chug-kerchug-chug down the street with the cylinder missing fire, the driver apparently oblivious of any defects in the performance of the machinery. You can get by with that sort of thing in an automobile but not in an airplane. I have saved myself many an accident by the quick detection of some irregularity in the running of my motor or the flying of my plane and been able to make a landing before something serious happened.
The only way to get experience is to pitch in and work yourself. In exhibition flying it is absolutely necessary to have mechanical knowledge of your plane. A few years ago I was appearing at the Nebraska State fair and the last day, Saturday, is known among fair people as "get away day." There is no time to lose as we must be at the next town ready to fly Monday morning. In the instance I am about to relate, my two mechanics over a fancied grievance "stuck." They walked off the field and left me with an airplane to take apart and ship to the next town. It was a brand new exhibition plane which I had never taken down before. But when it was built for me in the Curtiss factory, a few months before, I had reported at the factory each morning at 7 o'clock and went home each night when the whistle blew. I had watched every knot and bolt go into the plane and motor and was able, when necessary, to get my inexperienced helpers and put my airplane together in the next town, Milwaukee, Wis., in time to give my exhibition flight as scheduled. My face was streaked with grease and I didn't present a very pretty picture when I was ready to fly, but the people in the grandstand were not disappointed, and I had added to my reputation for making good.

THE [[OBSCURED]] STAR, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1918.
RUTH LAW WOULD TRY FLIGHT ACROSS OCEAN
American Aviatrix Arrives in the City to Race Auto and Do Stunts
SHE LOVES FLYING
While Racing She Travels Just Few Feet Over Head of Chauffeur in Auto

"I have always wanted to come to Toronto, because I understand that it is a real flying city," said Miss Ruth Law, pioneer American aviatrix, who arrived in the city this morning from New York, and will fly a race with an automobile here on Saturday. Miss Law commenced flying in 1912. "I used to fly in an old Wright machine with a propeller on each side of me, but we have gone a long way since then.. Now I fly a Curtis exhibition machine, which I have brought with me. I do exhibition stunts on it," she said.
"This little gold wing which you see was given to me in Paris, where I was flying between January and April last year. They would not let me go anywhere near the front, but they did give me this war dog." Miss Law has with her a French sheepdog, which is fully trained in trench warfare, and was employed on listening posts in No Man's Land in the war.
"I am very interested in the mail delivery between Montreal and Toronto, and I think in the future mail will be regularly delivered in this way. The service between New York and Washington has not lost a single day yet."
"What do you think of the proposal to fly over the Atlantic? Do you think that it will be a successful venture?" asked The Star. "Oh, yes, it will be sure to succeed if the proper precautions are taken. I would not like to try anything foolhardy, such as depending on a favorable wind, but I would not mind trying the flight myself if I had a machine which was built for the purpose and carried enough fuel to make me independent of the weather," she replied.
Speaking of long-distance flying, Miss Law remarked that her flight of 950 miles from Chicago to New York, which is still the American record for 950 miles, she said that for the transatlantic flight a landing raft in mid-ocean appeared to her a possible solution of the difficulty.
"They say that they cannot do that, though,' she remarked. "But would it not be terrible if the aviator could not find it? The wind and the tides and everything might make this very difficult."
In regard to her race against an automobile she said that if she were flying the machine which she used in France, there would be no difficulty at all. That machine went at 140 miles an hour, but her own exhibition plane can do but eighty. "Sometimes I win and sometimes the car wins. It all depends on the weather and the "bumbs." If the day is calm I can usually win," she said. "I fly just a few feet over the driver's head and am disqualified if I rise too high."
"I have been flying now for seven summers and I love it. I think there is no sport like being in the air and I don't think that I could live without it now."
Miss Law was dressed in an aviator, constume, and wore on her head a smart cap similar to those worn by the men of the Royal Air Force. Much of her attention was taken up with her dog "Poilu" who understood only French when she first got him but who understands English now. "He just had to learn because I do not speak French at all," she said.

[[Photo of Ruth Law, dressed in aviator gear, holding a chain leash attached to her dog Poilu]]

RUTH LAW AND HER DOG "POILU"
Miss Ruth Law, American aviatrix, in Toronto today, told The Star that she might some day attempt a flight across the Atlantic. Her French dog, which accompanies her, saw much service at the front and can now understand English although it took some pains to teach him. Miss Law made a record by flying 950 miles from Chicago to New York.

Kings of Motor Racing World Meet to Contest Laurels
MISS RUTH LAW IN AERIAL STUNTS
Automobile speed fans literally stormed the Exhibition grand stands this afternoon for the automotive races of the International Motor Contest Association at the local mile track, under the auspices of the Sportsmen's Patriotic Association.
The event was something unique in the annals of sport in Toronto, and the people turned out in thousands to see the barn-storming speed kings in action, which Miss Ruth Law, the famous aviatrix, performing her overhead stunts as an added attraction.
The morning's shower helped rather than detract from the success of the races from a sporting standpoint, for the track was in excellent condition when the first race was called. In fact, before the arrival of the miniature cloudburst this morning the officials were seriously considering watering the track with fire hose in order to lay the dust.
Officials on Track.
The referee of the racers was Co H. C. Bickford, general officer commanding Military Districts No. 2, who was aided by Capt. Lou Scholes as starter and P. J. Mulqueen.  Fred Lyonde, and James Norris as judges. Robert Falconer, Charles Soady, and James Murphy as times, W. A. Hewett as representative of the Sportsmen's Patriotic Association, W. M. Gladish as announcer, and others.
Exactly at 3 o'clock the convalescent soldiers at local hospitals paraded on the track in their blue and khaki uniforms, and were greeted by a cheer from the crowded stand.
There were eight events on the card, the first being a three-mile match race, between Louis Disbrow and Gaston Chevrolet.
A Happy feature of the meet was presence of hundreds of disabled Canadian warriors, who were the guests of the Sportsmen's Patriotic Association, and a number of the French "Blue Devils." 

TO APPEAR AT DRIVING PAR IN THRILLING PERFORMANCE
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RUTH LAW
On the afternoon of Sunday, May 22, Miss Law will work with a number of noted auto drivers in giving to Columbus people the first combined aerial acrobatic show and automobile races produced in this city. Miss Law will perform all the stunts introduced by the late Lieutenant Locklear and in addition a stunt entirely new to the aerial world will be put on. The act will consist of the lifting of a m[[tear]] from an automobile by an airplane[[cut off]]

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