The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-08-01

her afioat above the city. from the
streets OF which thousands turned
their faces upward to watch. not
for the hostile taubes as much as
to watch, admire and marvel at the
intrepid Girl Hawk"
Three times when the Germans
were advancing on Paris did she
give warning OF their approach, her
swift monoplane affording her
long advantage over the enemy.
There was no danger" she says
simply. But there is always danger
even the lay public knows, the fact
being emphasized by the peaceful
accident which ended the life OF
the young Englishman, the first to
destroy a Zeppelin, who, after tax
ing part In the greatest of aerial
war achievements and escaping as
by miracle, was dashed to death
when in the act of taking up an
American correspondent for an ex-
hibition fight Keen as are the
eyes of Mile. Dutrieu and skilled as
she is in the operation OF her craft,
there was always the possibility OF
sudden and unexpected onslaught
from the hostile craft; then there
was the peril which is always at
the elbow of those who adventure
into the skies.
Bruges Chimed Her Honors.
She had already fallen from a
house during an accident in Odessa
and escaped without serious hurt
Her monoplane had turned turtle
with her at Issy-les- Molineaux and
she escaped only with a severe
shaking up. having been saved by
the upper stays of the machine.
She has had many another close
call. Always glad to escape the
discussion of the graver aspects Of
the work. especially as it concerns
herself, Mile. Dutrieu very soberly
says that she felt one of the great
est Citations ef her life when she
flew high above the historical belfry
of Les Halles at Bruges. celebrated
by Longfellow.
AS the people wildly cheered in
the streets, the bells pealed out In
her honor while she circled above
the structure and then flew back to
Ostend, carrying passenger. But
no greater and yet scarcely justified
apprehension did she ever feel.
looking into the face of danger and
sudden death, than that which
seized her when, on her arrival at
Ostend, she had to be protected
from joyously hysterical crowd
bent on kissing and embracing her.
The record of this incident tells
us that: The mayor and all the
officers OF the city led in the shower
of congratulations that fell upon
Mile. Dutrieu. The men became
even more hysterical even than the
women, gesticu1ating and shrieking
like mad-stirred to uncomfortable
laughter and tears, stretching their
hands toward her. Thus they
pressed around the girl and the
flying machine. And so she had to
be protected-so many desired to
kiss her."
She was the first woman to fly
into Belgium. Two officers only
had done so before her. And over
the air lanes that she sailed in her
journey of a new achievement. now
speed swift. sinister things of the
air that spit singing death through
the void and on the earth below. or
drop thunderous destruction as
they pass swiftly through the night.
"Nervous?" she repeated the
query, smiled and was silent for
moment my friend. one must
not be nervous in the upper air, or
one. will never go there again. The
true aviator must be without nerves.
She's Homing Bird.
"of course. I'd much rather fly
than VOTE she continued; though
you doubtless think it would be
well for a woman, having accom-
plished the one thing to seek to
achieve the other. A woman may
tly aad be at the same time a hon.
ing bird by lnsttnct-this the view
as concerns myself, Of course. You