New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-07
FINDS USE FOR HUSBAND
WHEN AER0PLANE BALKS
Ruth Law Gets Out of Swamp
Only by His Dash for
Spark Plug.

A husband is a good thing to have some
times even when woman Is brave
enough to be an aviator and advanced
enough 10 he a suffrsg ist.
Ruth Law discovered that when. taking
oscar Danielson. a member OF the Long
Island Mems League for Woman SUI
frage. for flight al the votes for women
aviation meet AT Garden city yesterday
she lost A spark plug and landed her pas
songor in a swamp. Looking around she
behold her husband. trailing her on foot.
Charley. run and get me a spark plug
she commanded
Charlie ran the two miles to the hangers
and back again. and Mr.. Danielson was re-
turned safely 10 his anxious friends. Be
sides Mr. Danielson. the only sunraEst
who mustered courage to make an ascent
was Miss Margaret Person, member OF
the Hikers club OF oyster Bay. she
was up in tie air FIVE minutes with hu'h
Law In the latter's biplane.
Nobody else would go up, not even the
flying widow" Mrs. Marian Sims. who
put on her aviation toys and smiled be
vitchingly I'm the scat OF biplane while
the photographers took" her, and then
decided the wind wasn't right for hying
But the night those suffragists passed
camping in the hangers with the colo
rain beating down was enough TO take
the starch out Of any ono. Miss Porua
Willis boss" OF yesterdays show,
backed out Of the camping proposition
and went ONE 20 sleep. But about sew
enty Long Island suffragists put In
weary night shivering in the straw beds
and listening TO the crying OF a family
II four babies whom their Suffrage
mother hac brought TO the rally for the
elevation Of their young minds.
Everybody las In the straw except Miss
Martha Klaschken. Of the Woman sur
frage party In New York. who In con-
siicration 81 an abscess I'm her ear was
given a cot bed But that bed was MISS
klaschken's undolng. -Four playful young
women from oyster Bay. called the
'.oysterettcs." seized the cot In tho early
morning hours. with Miss klaschken IN
il. and deposited the whole out In the
aviation field. Some OF the men were out
preparing for a flight. and there was quite
some excitement before Miss klaschken
and her bed got back 10 the hangar
The cold and damp made the "suns'
furlously hungry. and great was the dis
may when Il was found that all that re-
mained after the last nights supper were
crackers. dried apples and fudge tn"
riotous "Oysterettcs' Immediately or
canized a foraging party and begged or
bought everything every farmers wife in
the neighborhood could spare.
After a breakfast Of cold boiled dinner.
custard pie. baked apples, cold ham.
peaches. douGhnuts and milk. the suf-
fragists felt better
The crowd for the afternoon "dolnSs
was a small one The sunragists said
everybody had gone to see the amateur
golf championship. Still they mustered
quite a fine parade around the hangers.
Mrs Josie Demott Robinson. the eN-circus
rider. led IL on her spotted bronco and
a fter her came Miss Willis and ner broth
or Ben. known as the most beautiful male
suffragette.
The parade. suffrage speeches and the
airship ascents iilled the afternoon. Then
the "suffs' went home to get warm