Show c C WOMEN AS AIR PilOTS Many Successful Aviators A viator of of Today Are f Females r TELL raj OF THEIR SENSATIONS to Fly In an Aeroplane Was Wasa Wasa a Ghent Woman Who Accompanied Since Farman-Since Farman Since That Time Tie Many Others Have Gained Fame by Feats In Air London The The issuing of a manifesto mani festo testo by the Women's Aerial league Initiating a 11 national national crusade for tor the provision of ot aerial weapons recalls the tact act that the e first woman Who who ever ascended in an aeroplane is believed to tobe tobe toe be e a 1 Ghent lady who accompanied Henry Farman on on a flight outside her own city in 1908 1903 The first certificated woman pilot in iu Inthe the he world was the Baroness de dc la Roche Rodio who after atter breaking breaking- her shout shout- shoulder der by r running Into a clump of poplar trees during practice her brevet brevet brevet bre bre- vet at going thence to St St. Petersburg where the czar personally congratulated her upon her skill In t t. July 1911 while she w was s leading In a abig big race In France her machine sud sua suddenly denly dropped to the earth like a stone Her life lite was despaired of of but after a along along along long convalescence she began flying again In tn February 1912 Exactly who was the first Englishwoman Englishwoman Englishwoman English English- woman to fly In hi an aeroplane Is uncertain uncertain uncertain un un- un- un certain but the honor lies between Mrs S. S F. F Cody wife of the pioneer pioneer and Miss Bacon daughter of ot the well known balloonist The former for tor former mer er made several flights with her bus bus- gha is i t s' s sz z L zv-z zv s wl s r d a. a ra a Yi Photos by American PrE Press Association mss MISS RUTH LA LAW tf TOP FAMOUS AMERICAN AMERIC AVIATOR AND D MISS MOI- MOI SA SANT tT OF FRANCE AND uE AMERICA ICA band during his earlier experiments and the latter at In 1909 1009 made her Initial aeroplane trip It Is is' sa says s 's Miss Bacon Bacun a U glorious buoyant sensation sensation- without a It parallel and ther therefore fore Indescribable tut It is delicious beyond words Prominent among British lady aviators avi avi- is la Mrs Maurice Ht Hewlett wife of the popular novelist Mrs Mrs J 18 HE holds the record of being beIng being be be- ing the only mother In lu the world vho who has taught her own son HOll to t Jl fly He is Lieutenant I II l E E. E T T T. lI Hewlett It II N. N who gained his hi- brevet brent lust last year Mrs Hewlett holds bolds the view that In a II few tew years women will wUl be bl starting off olT lu in their aeroplanes just n us as unconcernedly do In their motors as the they now The first time I went on an un aeroplane aero aero- plane planet Mrs Hewlett says nays I 1 quite luite Imagined tt it k wa was stationary The sensation sensation sen sen- was wm greater than an any 1 J have ever experienced At flirt t 1 was n a little hit bit afraid but the he be performance actually actually- had the effect of strengthening strengthen- strengthen Ing my nerves ner To the mere merc man on the street such n 11 view might at first appe appear r quixotic but Miss Davis I who has crossed the channel In an aeroplane more often than any other lady pays aviation a similar compliment Unique In Its way Is the entrance of ot Miss Mathilde into aviation According to 10 all traditions this charmIng charming charm- charm I Ing American Ameri an should dread the very err thought of or aerial navigation as her ber brother was dashed to depth derith in her br presence while flying in December Dec 1910 1110 Though small In stature Miss Moi Mol sant is big bit In spirit Some ome time ago the police pollee were Informed that she had been flying on n a Sunday and set outto out outto outto to apprehend nd her bel for contravening a n reckoned without without with with- state bylaw But Hut they the out their host Just as the representatives It fives tives of t the the- law l Hove o e in Ight Miss lIsl her hII engine n. n and Heared leared oft off Into intI th the tho air Kir out of their lr Jurisdiction Jurt 9 y |