New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-22

70 the Law and Order League and the
Kings County Sunday Observance Asso'
citation.
Aero Flights Attempted.
While this was going on the head:
of the tournament and their lawyer
put their heads together in anxious
consultation. The order served on
them by the police and the sheriff had
forbade also the holding of aeroplane
flights. These had been billed as q
leading feature OF the day. The mill.
tary show, although a disappointment
had been good: but had IT been good
enough TO give the people their money s
worth that was the question.
II was decided finally 10 take a
chance on the $40 fine and a ten day
bit and send the flyers up. The crowd
was waiting FOR something more "a
happen. II happened. First Baxter
Adams shot into the air and did few
tricks and dives.
Then Ruth Law. the girl aviator. as
cended up and up until she was 1000
feet above everybody else. The feel
that she was only a girl up there
gripped the crowd. and when her ma
chine suddenly began TO come whilrne
down from the heights in one loop after
another. until she mad turned over ten
times without stopping, the feeling was
that there really was nothing girl
couldn't do. She proceeded 70 snow
that she was able 20 accomplish a fe"
more thrilling feats.
Just as the crowd thought her part
was over. her machine suddenly turned
its nose TO the ground and dived like
shot duck falling from its fight:
There was no doubt in anybody's mind
that the catastrophe had come 20 her
the disaster they say overtakes all
flyers. The crowd was on its feet, gasp
ing. watching that fall until the great
bird and its frail girl were within a
few hundred feet OF the earth.
Miss Law Smiles.
There was surely no room TO rght
herself in that short space left, but
suddenly the aeroplane went up INTO
the air again. made a turn and swooped
around. not more than 80 feet from the
ground, past the grandstand. Miss Law
went by the cheering throng win her
hands off the controls. smiling at them.
This dav Of battle and thrills began
for the guardsmen IN nine different
armories at sun-up. They began to
mobilize there for the advance to the
threatened area. The most spectacular
dash was made by the 7th Regiment IN
a hundred motor cars.
The cars were lined up in Fifth Ave
nue. from Fifty-ninth 70 Seventeen
Street. and the entrainment was IN
charge Of Captain J. Weston Myers
head of the reglmental quartermsster
department. The scene at the armory
was much like real war times the
wives. sweethearts and women triends
Of the soldiers all on hand 10 bid them
farewell.
General Appleton, former commander
of the regiment, was there IN citizen $
clothes, watching the movement. Inc
regiment marched to the cars; there IS
10 order in the regulations for getting
into motor cars. so they just fell out
and tumbled in. The column went
down Fifth Avenue. through the gaping
East Side to the Williamsburg Bridge
and out Ocean Avenue TO the Speed.
way. They started at 9:35 and arrived
at :06.
There again being no order of exc
cution in the regulations 10 get sol
diers out Of the cars, the bugle blew
the assembly and they tumbled out and
fell in.
Discussing the complaints made
against the days operations by the
Sunday law strict constructionists, Cen
eral Organ said: eve have had SINH
lar complaints before and have tried 70
obey the law without getting into a
controversy about it. The firing of
guns would probably be violation of
the letter of tho law. The objections
made covered this whole mannuvre, but
we did not believe that, so long as we
refrained from firing, there could be
any objection"