Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-07-08 | Page 4 | Woman Falls to Her Death

WOMAN FALLS TO HER DEATH. , Aviation continues to claim its victims. The 'first woman to make the daring task an exhibitional occupation has fallen, and is now dying1 in a hospital. But these deaths will not check the advancement of aviation. They. arc 'the regrettable features, but can be so overcome that fatal accidents will be few. With further experiments, the aeroplane will be perfected so that the trained manipulator of the planes will be as secure in the air as an engineer on a locomotive. .There is a risk, and always will ' be, but the risk will be reduced to a minimum. Railroading has been such a hazard as to be proscribed by the insurance companies, yet gradually the. loss of life has been reduced, re-duced, as safety appliances have been introduced, until today train-men train-men are accepted as risks. With better understanding of aviation, inventive genius will make flight through the air much less dangerous. Had the fatalities of the present meeting at Rheims occurred in the earlier experimental stages, when the Wright brothers were testing their theories of air navigation, by heavier-than-air machines, aviation might have been given a set-back from which it would not have recovered in years. But today the conquest of the air is well within reach, and will be finally attained, even though hundreds of lives be sacrified in the achievement.