Evening star., 1911-08-15
MRS. LOCKWOOD IN AIR, !
IS CHANCE Of future
Has Accepted Invitation to
Take Ride in College a.,
Park Aeroplane. +.

Belva Lockwood. some time candi.
date of the woman's suffrage party for
President of the United States, one OF
the oldest lawyers in the United
States. may crown her long years OF
| accomplishments and high aspirations
by a flight in an aeroplane. She has
consented to risk her life In an aseen-
sion.
The proposition to make flight
was put up to Mrs. Lockwood BY the
agent of an aeroplane manufacturer,
with several machines now I'm service
at College Park. who saw an oppor-
tunity to make capital of the exploit
IL Mrs. Lockwood, one Of the 0ost
known women in the United States.
would essay IL. Her courags WAS
proof, and she accepted.
The agent asked permission TO con-
suit his principal to arrange the tight
and agreed to advise he's. She is
awaiting his communicable.
Flew as a Girl.
This would not be Mrs. Lockwood's
first flight. AS girl ten years OF
age. in a heavier-than-air machine Of
her own devising, she few straight
down twelve feet to the ground on the
roof Of a house. hitting the earth with
considerable force, but without physi-
cal injury.
Ii was predicted OF her by the editor OF
a Chicago newspaper. just after her nomi-
nation for the presidency, that she would
by the year 1900 put climax to her
notable career by the invention OF a ny
ing machine She began her career with
that accomplishment, but her young mind
was not ripe enough to make success or
one held in each hand-was never offered
to the patent ONCE for registration
Escapades of Girlhood.
Mrs Lockwood was born and spent her
girlhood at Royalton, Niagara county, ~.
Y. Here at the village school, she dis
tinguished herself in her studies to such
an extent that her mother. strict In many
things, forgave her much because OF her
great maternal pride in the intelligence Of
her small daughter.
The GIRL as remembered by the woman
of national reputation that she came to
catch crobs. climing trees after birds
nests and squirrels, jumping fences and
up to all manner of mischief that her ac-
tive mind could conceive.
The fight Of the swallows interested
her. She thought their movements In the
air the poetry of motion. and was move
to initiate It, She went about IL logically.
studied the ways of the feathered crea-
ture in the air and in his haunts In the
barn, and thought that she had learned
all there was TO know about the swallow
and his comings and goings.
Borrowed Family Umbrellas.
She borrowed the family umbrellas. and
with the first good breeze-which she re-
garded as essential to sustain night-she
made her attempt Climbing out OF the
window of her home. onto the roof OF the |
one-story l. constructed at the rear or |
the house. she made her preparations.
The umbrellas were opened, one was
taken in each hand, she poised herself Oh
the edge of the roof and launched her.
self in air over the twelve-foot precfptce.
Down she went like a plummet into .
we'll Her hopes had failed.
Picking herself up. uninjured In body
but with aspirations disappointed and
crushed, she went her way and never At
again to soar In air. Her par
snts never heard of II, as she never told
until long years afterward. and no neigh
Dor saw her trial. She remembers dis-
tinctiy every detail OF the incident N hee
young life. --------