The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-29
LAURA MYERS
WANTS To FLY
Honolulu Girl Gives Exhibition of
Daring on Roof Garden
Parapet.

While Eleanor Sears of Boston IS
West to California and soar over San
Francisco, thereby causing the San
Francisco aviation committee to wire
| less to Miss Enid Gregg, who last week
was a guest of Major and Mrs. Dunning
at Fort Shafter, to represent San Fran
cisco in competition with Miss Sears,
Honolulu has a galaxy Of daring young
women who are anxious to make trip
heavenward with Bud Mars or Captain
Baldwin.
Since the announcement was made
that there was probability that the
aviators might be willing to carry
passenger, four young women have
called at The Advertiser office to an
nounce they were willing to make the
flight. Three promised to leave their
names later, but Miss Laura T. Myers
of 1.-The Homestead left her name
and address and will await the decision
of the aviators as to whether they viii
carry passenger at all. Miss Myers
stated she was perfectly willing to make
the flight, and believed she possessed
the necessary steadiness of head and
nerve to go as far as any aviator liked.
Walked Along the Parapet.
On Monday evening, while the ball
was in progress at the Young Hotel, a
young woman declared her determina
ton to make a flight, if given the
chance, to Mr.. Hall, the advance repre-
sentative of the aviators. She was ban
tered about her nerve, when suddenly
she declared she would show them.
With that she climbed up on the stone
parapet, four stories above Bishop
street, and walked along it with as
much grace and with as much noncha-
lance as if she were crossing the bril-
llantly lighted roof garden. There were
some nervous people in the crowd and
some stopped breathing, and there was
a sigh of relief when she descended to
the roof garden again, laughing at the
fears of her audience.
Startles Friends.
1t was only two months ago that Miss
Sears startled her. friends, as well as
her family, by her flights with Claude
Grahame-W White, the English aviator at
the New York meet. After circling the
course at Belmont with White, she de-
clared with enthusiasm:
81 love aviation!'
| In fact, her enthusiasm was so
marked that her family took alarm, and
there We're rumors that her affections in
! the ease were divided between awaiting
and the aviator who happened to be an
interesting bird man on earth as we'll
as in the air.
Miss Sears brother was dispatched
| posthaste from Boston by the family
i,n~ g,Io
earth return at once to Beacon street
and sweet New England convention
atty.
Oltimatum Fails.
But even this family ultimatum did
not prevent the Back Bay belle from
going up Just once more with charm
| ing Mr.. White when they met in Phila-
| delphia in November
| Now Miss Sears proposes to fly over
| San Francisco, where her more mundane
accomplishments are well known to all
newspaper readers. Her hike to. or
rather toward, Monterey is still clear in
the minds of her followers. Her achieve
ment of walking across the stage dur
| ing the performance of a play is also
one of the tales of adventure told So
ciety little children.
~ " dc nat III dI ludb NHtH MISS SEARS
announced she was going to San Fran
| cisco to attend the aviation meet in
| January that San Francisco should look
| upon that announcement rather in the
| light Of challenge that required the
selection of a championess to meet and
| equal the highest flights Of the versatile
| Boston girl. Miss Gregg was therefore
| selected. She is on her way home to
| San Francisco, and on arrival in San
Francisco may announce her decision.
| Ambition of His Life
| Frank Wilburton, a well-known ka-
| maaina. who is getting, along in years.
| indicates that he has not lost all his
youthful energy, as he declares he is
| really anxious to make an aeroplane
| flight. 81 am getting old and haven t
/ long to live says ne, but I would
be happy if, before | pass along to the
| next world, ] could make an air flight. -
| He has faith in the aviators and be
lieves that such fight would be I'M
attended by disaster and that he would
eventually pass away without his