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190 New York, her next stopping place. To Phila­delphia and Washington she used simply a Penn­sylvania Railroad folder as a guide! As she passed various cities, she threw out Red Cross literature and circled over them, so that it was late in the evening of the second day when she came down in Washington on the Polo Grounds.

The pictures of Katherine Stinson show her in what looks like a ready made jacket suit, with a curl over her shoulder and a ribbon on her hair. Probably as difficult as flying the 373 miles in a single day was keeping that curl and ribbon in place. At the time of this trip, the pilot weighed 105 pounds and had to stand up in the cockpit to enable the crowd to see her.

Another flight worth remembering was that when she bettered Ruth Law’s distance record. She started out from Chicago under entirely different auspices from her predecessor. Before leaving she was sworn in as a postal clerk and carried a sack of mail containing sixty-one special letters. She, too, left from Grant Park and followed the identical route of her feminine rival. However, she not only sailed by Erie, but Hornell as well and landed in Binghamton, establishing a new long distance rec­ord of 783 miles and one for endurance, too, with ten hours in the air.

On the Friendship flight I have said the crew was supplied with malted milk tablets. When I took them I had no idea that Miss Stinson had set the precedent, but in accounts of this flight of hers,