New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-26

WAS a great comfort 10 me 10 near
from Miss Harriet Qumby, who was
the second woman aviatress TO receive
ri,ot,s license in the world. that there is
Immediate DANCER Of the air traffic be-
s,,ire 20 congested as IL is at 34th. 42d
"a so-h streets and other busy centres of
the CITY
have been worrying about that. Every
me seems to be up in the air these days.
zen our Presidential candidates. so col
I,sions would he the natural order Of things
was slad 70 know, too, that the rules
~ The air are strictly enforced; that
r,acbirA must keep At least $50 feet away
from the next one, and that IT is not con-
,idered good form To try and fly over or
under an approaching aeroplane, no matter
tr how eYeat a hurry YOU may be There
are no matinee, bargain counter or suf-
frage parade amendments TO this.
Seems 70 make one feel, oh. so much
safer. sonlevav or other.
With motor cars running over you at
.yerv corner with bicycles hitting you
while YOU Try TO get out of the way of the
surface cars. with holes in the street for
VOL 10 fall into while you try to avoid be-
ing trampled on by automobile scared
lorses il is a great relief for a timd per-
son Ike your Aunt Kate to feel that she
can take her morning exercise in the ether
II she wants TO and may avoid even the
senoblance of an accident. if she employees
just ore horsepower sense.
Miss Harriet Quimby told me all this
very confdentially. shortly after her return
from the other side where she nonchalant-
" crossed the English Channel in a 20
bleriot monoplane with q Gnome engine.
In the words Of the small boy, who placed
his dirty hands on his bare knees, and
eheered her night:
ITS going some"
Women says the Chaperon ARE divid-
ed into the get aways and die Always"
Miss Quimby certainly belongs to the
former class
A DRAMATIC CRITIC ON LAND.
When | discovered her she had recently
alighted-from an elevator-and was sitting
az her desk in the publication Offices Of
"Leslies Weekly" where. when she is
not flying. she exercises the profession OF
dramatic critic-two professions not so
widely dissimiar as you might think from
q first heetine glance. In both the Occa-
sonal airy fight is not only permitted, but
actually demanded.
had expected to see a prizehghting sort
Of person, with moonlike face bulging
muscles and an awaiting costume of wide
checks or stripes 1t is striking combl-
nation which makes very good picture,
you know.
But no. l faced feminine young per-
son-really young, not merely SO in stage
h1Fa u
little mug Of blue field violets and a great
disorder of papers were evident She was
attacking this chaotic mass with as much
fervor as if she had been recently appoint
ed 10 her position, and before she saw me
] gained the impression of very compe-
tent business woman. Sometime during the
interview. ! remember she said:
81 have no desire IN fly for exhibition
purposes that would be 10 take myself al
together too seriously. 1t would mean
staying away from my work, which really
love. l couldn't do that
There is good deal of the schoolgirl
about Miss Quimby still. She IS just too
awfullv enthusiastic about things and then
yes, she doesn't talk, she actually gabbles
The FIRST YOU know its h-r-r-r-r and away
! couldn't for the life Of me remember al
she said. for as soon as I'd catch up to one
topic, she was attacking another; but I did
get a word now and then, and managed tc
ask few questions.
II is very natural that young woman
who has ridden broncos and bicycles and
confesses that she lives the aeroplane he
cause It affords so much easier methods Of
escaping the speed minions' than she car
use in her runabout should find II difficult
TO restrain her speech TO the strictly legato
In fact the interview few along at sucF
a pace that I could only take impression
tstic notes Of her appearance. and gathered
in these. that she is rather blonde. viii
sunburned complexion, slim and not above
medium height. She has a brilliant. fEe