The Cairo bulletin., 1913-12-01
GRACE LAWLER
CAIRO'S FIRST
FLYING WOMAN
Bird Girl Scars High Over Tree Tons
and Says She Thinks "It's
SWELL
NO SIMPLE LIFE IN CAIRO
SAYS KNIGHT OF THE GRIP
People Here Must Fly High i'll
Everything They Undertake
to Put Through.
NO SIMPLE LIFE IN CAIRO
SAYS KNIGHT OF THE GRIP

Tony Jannus will have everybody
"up in the air" In Cairo before he
makes his getaway" said an oil
knight of the grip who was as
sembled among the vast assemblage
congregated on the Ohio levee yes
terday afternoon watching the
aerial excursions of several local
people ambitious to ho ''high flyers.
'But pshaw, the unusual is what
Cairo nigh steppers demand ard
must have. None of the namby-
pamby stun for them. The simpia
life might do up IN paducah, but il
don't 10 here You're not satisfied,
with higher stages Of water than
any one else, with It's accompany
ing thrills, but you got TO have
the biggest of stone sea walls, the
highest and strongest OF levee sys-
TENS TO beat back tho annual floods.
more railroads, north, east, south
and west, innumerabie big indus
| trial plants, a reputation for having
more moneM per capita than any
city in the country, the ability TO
sell in a tight money market, mu-
nicipal bonds bearing low rate OF
interest, merchants never asking for
extensions on their accounts, q
scandal anl sensation now and
then, the whole keeping Cairo on
| tho map and always in the eyes of
Ithe eoun4ry ry-A-something dqin' aal
lhe tjne. All these combined
make Cairo a target for the less
fortunate cities enyious of her
prominence, popularity and pros
perity. Its yhis that makes life
worth while in Cairo.
Miss Lawler Flies.
AS soon as the wind had died
down yesterday afternoon, and
while the sky was still clear, Tony
Janus made three flights carrying
passengers each tlme. Miss Grace
ITawler. his first passenger was the
FIRST woman in this city ever to be
taken for a ride IN the air. They
Ilcrt the landing az 4.2o o'clock
About midway across the river they
rose into the air and sailed down
almost to the point, circled aud
came back, following the course q
1.-THE river. Opposite the landing
they turned and sailed over tho
lhoads of the crowd gathered on the
llevee. Miss Lawlcr looked down
and waved her hand to the people
who had come there to see her fly.
At about Tenth street they circled
ana flew down the river to the land
, ing.
THAT was swell" said Miss Law
Her as she stepped from the boat.
'I woald like to flv al the time. |
WASH a bit scared. | could see all
] over the city and all over the sur
! rounding country. 1t Is beautiful
+ to look over the tops Of tho trees. II
was irst swell The only time It
was rough was when we hit tho
+ breakers When we started out it
$ ffeit like riding in a fast motor boat.
/. Int is pretty rough until YOU get into
g the air but after that 1T is more like
: riding I'm q motor car Mr.. Jannus
, 'hqd to look ahead all the time and
, ID noticed his eyes watered like he
b, was crying. Mine didnt, but
I Ididn't look into the face Of the wind
o. Ian the time.
Didn't Hold On.
II never once thought I was GO
ling to fall ont. I din't even hold
ON. except with my knees. There is
a bar right over your knees. and
pressed against that. When we
we're making the turn. though.
held on, but not because thought
was going to fall Mr. Janus let
me help him run the machine.
? Wasnf that niee?"
The next passenger taken up was
J. V. Brown. He said he enjoyed
0 the ride very much and would 80
= lagain today
Q win Perks Of Mound City, was
0 next given ride. As a variation
0 Of the former aights, Jannus mada
o spectacular dip from high in the
0 mir nearly to the edge Of the water
0 and then skinned across Just above