The sun., 1916-11-21
Flight From Chicago Was in
: Fragile and Battered Ex-
hibitiOn Craft.
TIME, 0 HOURS % MINUTES
Had Never Flown More Than
Is Miles BcfOrc-Will Get
Real Machine Now.

America. Ianded AT GOVeTnors is'e"s
yesterday morning after non-stoI
. hight from B%inghamton. ". Y, 16S mile'
/ northwest of here by airline. Her LITTLE
biplane now sets in front Of the army
that was flown over the same course b,
Victor Carlstrom, whose record she beat
something like q weatherbeaten baby
carriage standing next to a brand new
Limousine.
ID Ohiciais from the Aero Club OF
America. some army officers. including
Aajor-C,en. Wood and Major Carl F.
Hartmann. together with several dozen
newspaper reporters. photographers and
movie men. were on the parade ground
shortly after s o'clock. II was 1885,
when Major Hartmann first sighted Miss
Law, Just a speck In the hase above
Castle William. and at 9:37:3 o She
touched the ground. She had left Bling
hamton at 1928.
Her total flying time for the sss miles
from Chicago to New York war 8 hour
AT minutes and IS seconds.
Used Little Exhibition Machine.
Z She Is the champion cross-country fier
Of America. She is the champion woman
aviator Of the world. But that In not all.
She did 1t In a little machine that was
built for trick flying and looping the
Hoop. and she financed the Night herself
with money she made doing looping
stunts throughout the country. She did
Il merely as a sporting proposition.
It had been supposed that Miss Law
was coming here In a new machine OF
the tractor type with an enclosed fuse
lage and plenty Of power. But she
giided onto Governors Island yesterday
with the identical machine In which she
looped the loop for thousands at the
!. Sheepshead Bay Speedway last May. A
little tin dashboard to project her feet
from the wind has been added and the
Easolene capacity has been increased
from seven gallons to nfty-six. but that
II all. 1t Is a pusher type. propeller be-
hind, and bamboo poles running out 70
the rudders. with Miss Laws seat out
from under the wings over the front
landing wheel. There are only a hall
dozen OF these machines In existence to-
DAY, and 1t was supposed that they were
Useful only for trick flying.
viii Make New Attempt.
Miss Law tried to buy a big cross
country machine such as Carlstrom used.
but Mr.. Curtiss was afraid to sell 10 10
her for fear that she would be killed.
He thought 1t was too powerful for her.
But when he heard Sunday night OF her
record flight to Hornet from Chicago
he called the Aero Club OF America on
the long distance telephone and said that
she could have the new machine any
time she varied II. And she will very
oxely want II, for now she Ia going to
Try to break h0Sksn record by making
"a nonstop hi,St from Chicago to Gov
n Island.
Carlstrom, whose nonstop record was
bettered by !Os Law. had the best
equipment that money and science could
produce anu the backing Of the entire
Curtiss organization. His plane would
carry l52 gallons more fuel than the
machine Miss Law flew. He trained for
weeks and waited day after day for
favorable winds before making a start.
Miss Law. who never had flown twenty
fiva miles In a single flight before. just
had some new gas tanks put on her
%aeroplane. notified the Aero Gu to
make the flight official. and started.
Many Patches IN Machine.
Ruth Law is painted in large red let
tiers on top of the upper plane SO that
II can he seen from the ground when
she flies upside down. and the life belt
she uses in looping was strapped around
her when she landed yesterday. Here
na,o,a. whoro tho cloth haa haan nrnoI
s,,,.d "a on ,bo Lover .n,an. -. ~.
-,h.r. anororo,, rsoa in nt,h, ,onr,ns
had been nailed to II.
.ho .rr;y.ed ana Vas >srv uiiiin. ~ 90
20 Mater Uartmann'. Nous. ~ got go,
p,, she seemed IN no IN the mini. ~ CON.
N,tion resourcefni and no, disno..S %
taLo herself seriousIv sba 40 s,,.h,
Sair haired ana weichs Iss. thar I'm
nounds She was oncn,v n,ea.ed n, tho
recep,,on the army or,csrs and Arc
Club officials gave her hut .ne was n
1ttle hashfu, at Nrs, ana IooL.d N.
though she was wondering inst VIM ,hsv
were all there ivy
Although This woman has been living
since lal2-she is only oe-she has haG
an uphill 6rh, witbo,t financial hacL.
ing. riskire her life I'm machines tha,
were none too good. and she seemed
hardly 10 realize thai she had a, las, or.
famed the poal-ponularItv. nubIici,y
abd the official recognit,on or the Aero
Club that She IL the peer Of any maIa
fier In America, Miss Law has siwsvs
been in competition with men. nyinp In
machines that were inferior To theirs
and this time she won on, ~
aown a" the head OF n comnany - col.
dlerS when she landed sauarely I'm the
centre of the field. and some on. a.t.d
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