The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-23
RUTHLAW FROWNS
ON VAUDEvILLEAS
SHE PLANS FLIGHT
Turns Down Offer of $35, 900
a Year-Soon to Have
New Plane.


New York, Nov. 22.-Ruth Ban
croft Law has refused dozen allur-
ing vaudeville offers in the last "a
hours, and the slender little woman
who has established a new nonstop
aviation record is busy With new
flight plans. One telegraph despatch
urged her to take up proposition
yielding $4,000 year. 1t said:
"Come on, kid. Sign up quick" She
flung it away.
The remarkable 590-mile nonstop
trip from Chicago to Hornell, N. Y.
accomplished with an obsolete loop
the-loop machine has inspired avia-
tors to plan efforts in the immediate
future to better her mark.
1t was thought that Victor Carl
strom's mark, 452 miles, made on No
vember 2, would stand for long time.
But Miss Laws success has instilled
in Carlstrom and other aviators a de-
sire to record longer flight than that
of Miss Law. 1t is possible that at
least one flight from Chicago will be
made in the next few weeks.
Miss Law herself plans to make an
other trip. Having established a
record and won the approval Of ex-
perts she expects to have for her next
attempt one Of the big and powerful
Curtiss battle planes which was re-
Curtiss feared she was not strong
enough to manipulate the mechan-
ism. He has changed his mind and
has said that Miss Law can have the
machine at any time.
Plans Transcontinental Trip.
Miss Law intends to enter into the
transcontinental flight, three stops, to
be held next year under direction of
the Aero Club Of America. In ex-
pressing this purpose she ventured the
opinion that "there will soon be hun
dreds Of persons flying from Chicago
to New York for business and pleas
ure.'
Her little machine, obsolete in con-
struction, rests on Governors Island
just beside the towering plane of Vic
tor Carlstrom. The contrast In size
and appearance is so great as to create
wonder that the far inferior mechan-
ism was able to effect far superior
record.
The Aero Club Of America has is
sued the following statement concern
ing the flight:
"She left Chicago on Sunday morn
ing at 1926 A. M, Eastern time, cheer
ed by the people who had gathered at
Grand Park Her aeroplane, being
loaded to it's fullest capacity, climb
ed sluggishly and battled with the
varying wind currents which came
across and over the buildings on the
lake front. There was at the time
southwest wind of about twenty-six
miles an hour, which soon died out,
and there was almost no wind there
after.
"She had mapped her course and
had her chart mounted on rollers in
a case, the case being strapped to her
belt and to the guard OF her seat.
She had gone over the route with
Lieut. J. A. McAlser of the Hydro
graphic Survey Office of Chicago and
had then traced the route herself on a
chart, noting on the chart the COM
pass directions of her flight, which di-
rections she summarized ON the cum
of her gauntlet.
Beats Carlstrom's Exploits.
"Following her directions, she pass
ed Cleveland flying at he1gnt Oh
about 5000 feet, and went on and
passed Erie at a height Of 5000 feet.
She soon passed clean and flew to
Hornell, where she landed at 2:1O
P. M, having covered the distance OF
$40 miles breaking the American cross
country nonstop record made by
Victor Corlstrom on Nov. 2, lettering
Victor Carlstrom's nonstop distance
record from Chicago to Erie by 138
miles.
"It was a surprise to everybody to
find that the aeropfane~used to make
the record breaking flight was the
small loop-the-loop Curtiss biplane
with the propeller in the rear which
she had rebuilt for herself on the
old model last March for loping-the-
loop exhibitions which she gave in
number during the past season. She
wanted this type, where the seat is in
front, without protection from the
elements, because, she said, it afforded
a wider range OF vision while flying.
Thesmachine was equipped with a 100
horsepower Curtiss motor and gaso-
line tanks holding ffty-three gallons"
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