New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-23
Hidden in Clouds, Ruth
Law Dives as Strength
Begins to Flag.
FORCED TO ABANDON
HEIGHT RECORD TRIP
Young Aviator, Off to Defeat
Men, Disappointed at Making
New Mark for Women.

Lost in a cloud two piles above the
earth yesterday. Ruth Law, in an ef-
fort to break all altitude records, be
came so chilled by the winds sweeping
over Sheepshead Bay that she realized
she could not guide her aeroplane much
longer. Nor did she know whether she
was over the land or the sea.
There was only one thing TO do. Max
;ng the record she set out for was I'M
possible. Her aching arms and myers
rlutcbinc her steering levers with
erin she could not relax, told her thal
Size would have to get back TO earth
go, or else lose control of her ma
Snc did the one thing there was to
do -pointed earthward and dove.
Down on the ground her mother a
brother. her sister and her manager
Charles Oliver. were waiting,
An hour passed without sign OF the
Girl aviator. Her manager began 10
FRET. 81 wonder why she doesn't come
down" he said. "She won't be in time
to enter the bomb dropping contest
Dives Like Falling Sparrow.
Alone. two miles in the region where
s,aces are infinite, Ruth felt the cold
GRIN her arms harder. She knew the
fcbt was hopeless. It was guide her
machine TO earth while yet she could
or drop. So she guided 1t into a dive
As her manager still fretted lest she be
too late for the next event, he saw
tlack shape emerge from blacker
cloud 8,
"There she is-she is coming down,
sorne one shouted. "She is coming like
a falling arrow
The delicate prov of the plane, with
the girl sitting among its struts and
STAYS, was pointed toward the earth al
most perpendicularly. Her mother and
eister and brother looked with interest,
while others gasped. Another minute
and the aircraft was bouncing over the
grass and came TO a stop. They had TO
ift her out. There we're no family en-
bracings at this end Of the flight,
either.
Ruth's lips were blue and she leaned
stif1v against her assisters. Then as
the blood began TO flow again through
her body she began 10 tremble. Ugh
she said with a shudder, IL didn't know
] was this cold"
Several minutes passed before she
could speak again. She had TO run cold
water on her hands TO bring back SEN
sation and the power 20 move them.
She had 70 thrash her body to start the
circulation For half an hour she shiv-
cred. When she could gasp out word
again her first question was, How high
does the Paragraph show
Climbed II, 900 Feet.
- 10 q
manager told her with a disappointed
voice "You get second money"
is that all ," she said dismally. u
would have gone clean on up, but /
knew ! couldn't control the machine any
longer. ! came down in two minutes
once ! started for the earth"
you made a woman's record, any
how Oliver said comfortngly.
81 didn't 60 out after a woman's rec
ord ] went out after the mans, and
would have made it, too, if | hadn't
been frozen.
You would have made it neat as a
I hin if YOU had had a fussilage car TO
protect you" Oliver said.
For her pains she got $3.50 and the
renewed distinction of having been
( aloft higher than a woman ever went
before. The previous woman pilots
record was 5000 feet, and this was
/ held by herself. The first prize OF
$500 yesterday was won by Victor
/ Carlstrom, who. in the machine IN
which he broke the cross-country flight
record from Newport News, reached a
height of 14,5OO feet, with H. Nj. Gal
/ lup as a passenger.
/ In the bomb dropping contest the
first prize was won by Tex Millman
and second prize by Baxter Adams
one of the bombs, which were sand
bags. dropped among the few specta-
tors who braved the wintry winds 10
see the tournament, but did not inJure
anv one. The target was a piece oil
canvas. eight feet by three, stretched
on the ground. The drops were made
from about 900 feet.
An aftermath of the efforts OF the
Law and Order League and the Kings
County Sunday Observance ASSOCIATION
70 stop the tournament Sunday came
vesterda5 in the service Of seven sum
monses on Everard Thompson, vice
president and general manager OF the
Sbeepshead Bay Speedway Corpora
ton. II. +. Boucher, secretary OF the
limited Service Association, which IS
,.,,,,,rc tho tournament, and on hve