The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-02-05
MRS. GEORGE PRIEST, MOUNTAINS PREM1ERE
AV0ATRDX, WRITES OF HER AIR EXPERIENCES

MOntana'S premier ay1atrix is
Mrs. Georgia Prest, who, before
she took to aerial matPimOny, was
Miss Emerson of Anaconda. She
is as beautiful as the angels whose
sphere above the clouds she has
invaded. Also she is a young
newspaper woman and a year ago
was a feature writer on the Ana
conda Standard. Just now she
and her husband are associated
with an aerial transportation COM
pany operating out of Los Angeles,
but they are coming back to Mon
tana
This is how she became interest
ed in aviation. First she became
interested in the aviator. He would
take her for long trips in his plane,
she sitting behind him in the pit.
Because of the good looks with which
Providence has blessed her the young
man was constantly turning his head
to look at her. This, of course, was
dangerous. She did not want to
give up these delightful trips through
the air, nor did she wish to be re-
sponsible for the death of the young
aviator who would let his controls
go to look at bright eyes and dimples.
So she married him to save his life.
This is her own story:
How did I become an aviatrix?
I married an aviator.
I a think of no more valid rea-
son to explain my own case-I was
thrown into first-hand touch with
aeronautics and was not long in
winging it into the blue azure to
view the world beneath from a dozen
different angles.
Had my OWL husband not been a
flyer, it is an almost certainty that I
might still have my first trip off the
earth to make; and, inyersely, as he
is an aviator, it seems as natural to
me to fly with him as it must seem
natural to other women to ride with
their husbands upon terra firma in
the family automobile. Perhaps it is
hardly accurate to call myself a full
blooded flyer, but as mechanician
and chief of staff for the speedier
half of the family 1 contribute to it's
support.
1 believe the youngest femme
aerial traveller is my own little
daughter, whom I took to an al
situde of $500 feet before she was
six months old. She evidently en-
ioyed the trip as much as I did and
f any i'll effects resulted they are
hard to locate, as she grows bigger
svery day.
My first flying experience was at
Cal, in December, 1917,
l made my maiden voyage in
White Star passenger plane of the
Crawford Aeroplane company. Every
for several weeks l had been
It the aviation field watching the
requent flights. That is n thing
never tire of. AS many machines
S I have seen and as much of avia-
as I have grown to know, a
Machine in the air or on the ground
5 always a source of keen fascina-
ion to me.
The passengers had come safely
ack to terra firma, wildly enthusi-
site, and I envied them eve so
luch.
Finally the pilot asked me if l
-ould like to try it. 1 looked at him
moment, trusting that I had under
,ood him. Then he came toward
lie, holding out leather coat, he'll
and goggles; and let me assure
I established a speed record in
myself for the trip.
A Greenhorn.
I must admit that / presented any
ling but a graceful appearance in
citing into the ship. I was in every
'spect of the word, a greenhorn and
took two men to get me firmly es-
,blished in the front cockpit and
in with the safety belt.
Then the pilot opened the throttle, =
Q motor roared, and in the newness "
it all I found myself wondering il
neither I entertained any fear. l fl
can't say that 1 did or did not. h
was so excited I couldn't have told $,
minute later just what my thoughts h