The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-11-20

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| placidly asked of Mrs. Hartmann:
May ! borrow some of your face
POWDER"
i Having powdered her nose. she
/ talked to the United Press Of he:
flight.
| Sitting in an automobile and rosy
checked from contact with the friyid
air of the upper regions, swathed III
sheepskin and oiled garments, shf
graphically described her thrilling
voyage.
I'm awfully well pleased that I've
been able to beat the American rec
! ord Miss Law began. "But could
have done better. believe could
have made the flight all the way
through If things had turned out the
way / expected them to. And I'm
going to try it again.
when I made up my mind to try
this flight from Chicago to New
York." she said. 81 got into com
munication with the Curtiss,s aero
plane factory and tried to buy big
battle plane, one of the most power
, full l could get. But they wouldn't
let me have it. They were afraid
that women couldn't handle the pow
erful machinery and manipulate their
big machine in that long trip.
when they kept on putting me off,
I just decided to hop into that little
machine and make one great effort.
II didn't think it hardly possible
that could make the trip through
to New York without stop. My ma
chine will not carry enough gaso-
line. But now I'm. going to have that
big machine and I'm going to try it
all over again
Speaking of her machine, Miss Law
pointed laughingly across the field to
where her biplane nestled in the
shadow OF the ruge acceptance Victor
Carlstrom used when he attempted
the flight between Chicago and New
York. The sturdy, old fashioned ma
chine with which Miss Law shattered
Carlstrom's record was not half as
Carlstrom had left on the aviation
field. The small machine is barely
one hundred horsepower, while that
Of Carlstrom is capable Of two hun
dred.
Speaking Of her flight from Bing-
hamton to Governors island, Miss
Law said it was about as risk an
undertaking as she had ever faced.
1T was SO foggy," she declared, "it
was almost impossible for me to see
where I was going There were times
when l skinned over the New York
hills only one hundred feet up. 1t
certainly gave ms plenty of thrills"
On the cuff CT one of the aviatrice's
gloves was q tiny map. She had
drawn it herself and outlined almost
perfect course from Chicago. She
had jotted d )wn on slip of paper
pasted alongside it, the names of the
towns over which she passed. to-
gether with other data for the rec
ords for the Aero club.
ut was. awfully hard making head
way" she said. There was strong
head wind blowing against me. l had
not taken on any gas at Binghamton.
The strength OF the wind slowed me
up quite "a bit and when l finally
located Governors island through the
haze, l discovered there was not an
other drop of gasoline in my tank.
With my engine shut off, volplaned
to a landing. Ii there had been an
other mile for me to travel would
have been in a bad way"
Miss Law declared she had abso-
lutely no trouble with her machine.
It behaved nicely all the way for her.
OF ZIG HeTO OluU
which sanctioned the fight, were en-
thusiastic over Miss NLaw's flight
She paid all the expenses Of tbs
fight, but asked an official sanction
for the trip so it might be mades a
record.
Miss Laws feat Vas ACCOMPLISHED
on the anniversary OF the day she
received her Di.ot's license. Nov. 20,
1912 Being sister of Rodman Law.
the famous parachute jumper, she
had plenty Of family nerve to help
her when she decided to do stunts
with a flying machine.
This is the first distance flight she
ever attempted, but she has been
making records for some time. She
broke the altitude record for women
on May ~ last when she climbed
II, 200 feet Victor Carlstrom, on this
occasion, tried for an altitude record
in a baby scout plane, but arose only
5000 feet.
Accompanied by Miss Pearl Nc
Grath and Richard R. Sinclair of
New York she established a record
for height with two passengers on
Sept. 2, 1913, arising, 800 feet and
remaining in the air for ten minutes.
Miss Law is % years old and was
born in Lynn, Mass.