The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-10
GFNEVE SHAFFFR
ANXIOUS TO FLY
With Her Brother She Has Built
an Airsl1ip and Will
Make Flight

Shaded from the sun by the wings
of her brothers aeroplane. Miss Geneve
shaner, sorority girl and aeronautist,
of so2 Holyoke street, Stood yes
terday, telling the details of construe-
tion of the biplane al her side and of
the thrills she hopes 10 experience
Sunday. August -, when she is TO sail
away from Berkeley in the balloon of
Captain a. Van TasselL
4 will be the inst woman on the
coast ever premeditatively to take a
balloon trip" said the young and
pretty aeronautist. and hope TO be
the first woman ever to fly anywhere
in an aeroplane. ou- aeroplane should
be ready very shortly; all it lacks no*
are the engines and since it has dem
onstrated its efficiency as a glider 1 do
not think there should be any appre-
hension but that il wiz be good dying
machine What wish is that the
women of San Francisco would form
an aero club.
Miss Shaffer has been called by some
of her friends the Katherine Wright of
the Pacific coast At present her.
brother. cleye T. shaffer. has not dup
Heated the wonderful sersal adventures
Of the WriEhts--ne one fn the world
has done THAI nor ear achieve the dis
tinctien which viii always attach to
the Wrights-but slafTer intends TO
follow closely in their air currents, so
10 speak. and when he has achieved his
fame he must share his glory with his
sister. Miss Geneve Shafrer. for she has
been his closest adviser and most in
te1ligent helper
Gives Sister Equal Credit
shaner now gives his sister equal
credit for the work he is doing. When
he was seen yesterday afternoon at the
place where he is employed he referred
all questions to his sister
You will find her al our home. he
said. and she can tel you as much
about the machine ar can
Miss shafTer who, with her mother
and brother. lives in a little cottage
in Holyoke street near the San Bruno
road. was quite ready TO show her
brothers model.
We live out here" she said, because
here is a great deal of room and high
land from which TO fly the machine
our aeroplane" she said. accepting
joint responsibility for the machine.
was built first as a glider and was
used in several flights of about zoo
feet But now we win install Curtiss
engine of six horsepower and will
make an aeroplane of it. Then / ex-
pect TO fly in the machine and hope to
be the hrst woman ever to SAIL
The Shaffer AeropIane
The Shaffer aeroplane is ready for
fight as soon as the engines are in
stalled and the rudders, which are
finished. are attached. The frame is 20
feet from tip to tip and the extensions
from fore to rear rudder planes win be
20 feet. The planes are arched and
the frame is covered with prepared
waterproof cloth. The frame is of
spruce. reinforced with piano wires The
wing tips win extend beyond the ends
of the planes.
Cleve T. Shaffer is member of the
Aero club Of New York and is the
! western representative of Aeronautics,
the periodical devoted to lying. He
is % years. of age Miss Shafer is
younger. She is well known here So
cially. having been member Of the
Phi Alpha Kappa sorority while at
tending the Polytechnic high school in
this city. Later she went east TO
finishing school at Jamestown. \. Y.
MY brother has been interested in
aeroautics all his life" said the girl
with much family pride He studied
air currents from the time he was
able to read. it seems. l have fol-
lowed his studies. too. | have closely
read Professor Baden Powelrs book.
.Ballooning as a Sport and keep up
with the articles in the Scientific Amer
lean and other, papers, l think that
some day i may be able to write ar
ticles on the subject. too L hope so.
but ii Is too early yet for me to talk
about tilat-
Will Make Balloon Trip
Il look forward with the greatest
I anticipation of our balloon trip sun
day. August -. We start from Pro-
fessor Van TasselI's place in Berke-