The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-29
SHE IS IN DAYTON
TO LEARN ART
OF FLYING
Mrs. w. S. Mckenzie, For.
rner Fair Secretary As
sistant Out For License
Is DATE
OF r G
Declares That She Will Beat
the Female Altitude
Record

tary-o of the North Dakota Fair ~associa.
ton, belongs the honor Of being the
nrst woman to ever enter the Wright
school of instruction for aviators
conducted at Dayton. o., at their
training camp.
Mrs. Mckenzie. well known in
a Forks and by patrons and ex-
h1bitors at the last state fair, is nov
IN Dayton and is receiving instruction
at the hands of Aviator Welsh, one Of
wright Bros, best men, and it is her
aim to gain an aviator's license by Oc-
tooer Is when she hopes to make
nights at the st. Louis, Mo-, aviation
meet. and where she declares she is
going out to win the purse Of $4,000
onered to the woman who breaks the
present. altitude record of feminine
aviators.-
Her First Enthusiasm.
lie entrance upon the field Of avia-
ton had Its inception at the state fair
IN Grand Forks. when she evidenced
the most enthusiastic interest in the
game and begged and pleaded with
Parrnalee to take her along with him
IN n of his flights. But her plead
tngs were then Of no avail. as the
Wright Bros. rules make it impos-
sible for the aviators to carry women
unless allowed to do so by special or
ders from headquarters. .
Mrs. Mckenzie was not satisfied at
Parmalee's Interpretation Of the rules
at that time. and had intended tele-
graphing to Wright Bros, for permis-
sion to make the aerial trip with their
aviator, but the trip did not materi.
alize. -
Revived in Twin Cities.
Probably her next enthusiasm over
the aviation game was aroused at the:
Minnesota state fair, when she met
Frank Cofyn and Howard Gill, the
Wright men who few for the Gopher
association, From Coffyn. with whom
h had a previous Acquaintance by
reason Of his visit in Grand Forks at
the time Parznalee was flying here.
h gained permission to MAKE a fight
with him but -Coffyn had an accident
and his machine was smashed, SO that
she was once more obliged to give up
the idea-temporarily-of flying.
= The aviation bug had become thor
oughly sinstilled, however. and Wright
Bros. began to. receive kilograms
from her. She fairly burned up the
telegraph wires until she secured con-
sent to attend the Wright Bros, camp,
and she is there now receiving the in
structton in the art Of awaiting.
To Work Under Contract.
successful In gaining an avfator's
pilot license. Mrs. Mckenzie will work
under contract with the Wright COM
pany. The st. Louis aviation meet is
h one. toward which her thoughts
win official recognition of her ability
as an aviator before that time. Gain
ing such recognition she will at once
make a try for the altitude record
among women, and she declares po-
sitively that she is going to win it.
Mrs. Mckenzie will not fly under
her own ~name-Emma Uewella Nc
KAnz{a-hnf hac o1AnfnA Ethel Mo-
Morton as her aviation title.
1t was very shortly after the state
fair in this city that Mrs. Mckenzie
went to Minneapolis where she enter
ed the employment Of the Tri-State
Automobile. company. After the
Wright aviators reached the twin cit
les during the fair week the typewrit-
she had set her heart on flying and
could see nothing alluring in the busi-
ness Office of an automobile company.
Mrs. Mckenzie resided in Grand
Forks several years. her husband be-
ing William s. Mckenzie, employed by
the Great Northern Express company.
He is still in the employ of that COM
not as enthusiastic owe the aviation
game as his wife. and Toes not entire-
~ approve of her desire to gain prom
inence in the aviation world.
Women and Aviation.
Women In the aviation world are
few. There are. at the present time.
only about twelve of them who have
been successful in negotiating atmos-
phere in the heavier-than-air ma
chimes. In America, there are three
women wlie have been grantd avia-
tors licenses, these being Mabel Mois-
SAINT. Harriet Quimby and Nine. De-
treu.
Miss Quimby was the first of these
women to gain official recognition. her
flight from Staten Island, New York.
being the one by which she won her
license. ~
Women have not yet ventured very
high into the air in the a%reoplanes.
but Mrs. Mckenzie. the Grand Forks
woman, says its altitude records that
she is out to win, and h is going to
bend Energy in that direction.