Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-10-18
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OF the Great and Only La Lu as Seen in W.
@. Coup's Monster Show and Paris Hip
Podrome---Interesting Description
of the Catapult by which Lu Lu
Is Hurled Nearly zoe Feet
za Through the Air!
The powerful and ingenious, enginery,
by which Lu Lu is thrown, like q bird,
through space in Coup's show, is an inn
mense improvement ON those used by the
ACCENTS in Syracuse during the reign of
Dionysius the elder. These formidable
military engines were used for throwing
Stones, darts, and other missiles, acted on
the principal of the bow, and consisted of a
wood framework, part of which was
elastic and furnished with tense cords of
hair or gut. The largest of these machines
| projected beams six feet long and weighing
sixty pounds to the distance of
400 PAGES. They were made of such
| strength and power as to hurl pom
derous projectiles with precision,
| distance of quarter of a mile. The one
used by Lu Lu consists OF powerful iron
frame work, a throwing lever about twenty
feet in length, two cast iron disks, supplied
with hooks, hundred or more pieces of
elastic rubber, an inch in diameter and
about eighteen inches in length, with iron
| eyes in both ends, and wire rope fastened
from the throwing end of the lever to the
carriage supporting the catapult In get
| ting the machine in readiness for action the
! long le4er is raised high in the air, the two
| iron di ks being thus brought together, the
rubber springs are hooked on, the lever put
down until the spings are stretched to near
! ly six feet, and the enormous strain of over
20, 900 pounds pulls heavily upon the short
! arm of the lever.
At moment specified the master of cere-
monies introduces to the audience the cele-
brated Lu Lu, who is good looking young
man, neatly clad in tights. After a grace.
full bow Lu Lu looks over the machine and
sees that the safety pin is all right and soon
stealthily mounts the frame work-one mis-
step, quick pressure or bad calculation
would cause the lever to detach, and in
stantly he would receive blow that would
smash him to atoms. Placed at the extreme
end of the lever is form for the body Of
Lu Lu to lie upon. With the utmost cool
ness and caution he reaches to his form
on the end of the lever, and at this poin
the most absolute quiet is demanded by hi
attendant A breathless silence ensues
The powerful lever by means of which LII
Lu is projected like bird through the air
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charge of an attendant, and when the ordel
is given to go, the catch bolt is touched, tht
iron disks spring together, the great bean
flies upwards with tremendous force, ant
the daring Lu Lu is whirled through the ali
with the speed of rocket, sevety five fee
high describing the segment of an air circl'
nearly five hundred feet in, diameter, anl
performing two complete somersaults be
fore alighting in the net nearly two hundret
feet away.
On discovering that this wonderful "mal
bird accomplished his daring flight un
harmed, the audience breathes freer an
the lithsome Lu Lu skips away out of sight
amid the deafening cheers and rapturou
plaudits of the electrified multitudes
, One or two foolish attempts have bee
made to initiate Lu Lu, both of whic
,, proved fatal, one being that of young gin
who now lies buried in Greenwood Gene
terry, New York, from the effect of the fall
Lu Lu is the first and only human being ths
ever accomplished the feat
The performance will be witnessed witt
Coup's Show in Knoxville, October ~.