Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-10-13


of its amusements last year the Gulf
Coast Fair has engaged Miss Kath-
crime Stinson, the Mississippi girl,
who has today the distinction of be-
ing the most daring woman aviator
in the world and makes more annual
ly in holding the people spell-bound
while she does the Dip of Death and
Loops the Loop, than the salary of
the President of the United States, to
appear on at least three different days
during the Fair The dates arranged
for are the opening Monday, October
Goth; Wednesday, November 1st, and
Friday, November 3rd, which is School
Day, at which time Miss Stinson will
do some extraordinary stunts for the
pleasure of the school children.
Miss Stinson was raised over at
Hattiesburg. Mississippi, where the
writer remembers her well, and little
dreamed that she would one day be-
come so famous. She is today the
most sought after individual in the
United States when it comes to flying
and the money she receives from the
Gulf Coast Fair is sum that would
make many people wonder how the
Fair can afford it. The fact is the
Gulf Coast Fair believes in the best
there is to be had in features that
attract the multitude and Miss Stin-
son is in that class.
The New York Herald in discuss
ing Miss Stinson at her recent Sleeps
mead Bay engagement said:
Clasps from the tens. of thousands
in the grandstand and thousands more
around the field of the Sheepshead
Bay Speedway testified to the daring
of little Miss Katherine Stinson, fly
ing biplane there yesterday after
noon. She also won thrilling ana
spectacular race. biplane against au-
tomobile, finishing the two-mile cir
cult of the track a few yards ahead
of Dario Rests, the automobile rae
ing champion. a
"Murmurs of fright and horror
greeted the long drive from an alti-
tude of 1000 feet made by the brave
little girl. She had assembled to a
height of 1900 feet, smoke pots at
the end of the biplane's wings leaving
its trail of record of her movements
in the air. At that height the avi-
atrice shot downward, looping the
loop completely before dropping 500
feet. The smoke of the loop above
her and the audience broke into ap-
plause. which suddenly halted.
Miss Stinson had cut out her en-
CINE and her biplane was shooting
almost perpendicularly toward the
field Many believed she had lost
control of it and was plunging to her
death. Not until the biplane was
within 100 feet of the earth did its
driver divert its course to a long, cir
cling slant, which soon brought it
lightly to the ground amid roars of
approval and relief.
Dressed in an afternoon frock OF
yellow silk, with her dark brown hair
hanging, the young woman's appear
ance addict the interest in ner per
Torrance. No one had ever attempt
ed before what Miss Stinson grace
fully and easily accomplished last
night. In an atmosphere clouded and
weighted with fog, her achievement
was often threatened with dire dan
ger"
THAT brave little Miss Stinson
laughs at death and superstition was
evinced by the fact that the hazardous
flying feats were all performed in a
! biplane equipped with the Gnome mo-
tor that was used by the late Lincoln
Beachey when he plunged to his death
in presenting the dread tumble
fight the brave girl so prettily han.
died last night. Now you thrill-lov-
ers took their hats off to this slim
and shy girl, and it is fitting ana
proper that it should extend her this