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Popular Science Monthly 



Photo by Central News 



With her obsolete type of Curtiss biplane (called a "pusher") Miss Law covered a distance of 

 five hundred and ninety miles in nine hours, making the world sit up and take notice 



A New World's Record for Continuous 

 Flight Made by Ruth Law 



RUTH LAW, a daring young woman of 

 twenty-eight, has two new flying 

 records to her credit — the American cross- 

 country and non-stop record, and the 

 world's record for continuous flight for 

 women pilots. In a two-year-old, now 

 obsolete type of Curtiss biplane she flew 

 from Chicago to Hornell, N. Y., a distance 

 of five hundred and ninety miles, at the 

 rate of one hundred and three miles an 

 hour. She landed because her gasoline 

 gave out. The next morning 

 at nine o'clock she was in 

 New York. Her actual 

 flying time was under 

 nine hours. It 

 takes the fastest ex- 

 press trains twenty 

 hours to make the 

 trip. Until she made 

 her record achieve- 

 ment Miss Law 

 had never flown a 

 greater distance 

 cross-country than 

 twenty-five miles. 



Thi;, iii1l( i)i:clr!K).'ird flyer covered ninety 

 miles of rough country road in two hours. 

 Note the motor-wheel attached at the rear 



Call This a Boy's Toy or a Junior 

 Runabout, As You Please 



THE newest thing in motor-vehicles is 

 the speedy-looking craft in the illustra- 

 tion. It is a light but sturdy buckboard. 

 Motive power is furnished by a motor- 

 wheel attached at the rear. The entire 

 machine weighs only one. hundred and 

 thirty-five pounds, and it will cover from 

 eighty to ninety miles on one gallon of 

 gasoline. The control is simple, comprising 

 as it does merely one small thumb-lever 

 attached to the rim 

 of the steering- 

 wheel. A clutch 

 and foot-brake are 

 provided, and the 

 steering arrange- 

 ment is the same as 

 that of an ordinary 

 automobile. The 

 drive-wheel is lifted 

 about an inch off 

 the ground and 

 released at will by 

 means of the 

 clutch. It is cranked 

 by hand. 



