Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-20
The Lulu Hurst Exhibition.

Lulu Hurst, the % Georgia Wonder gave
a second exhibition at Armory Hall last
night, TO a much smaller audience than on
the first night A second observation leads
to the conclusion that Miss Hurst is a very
strong girl, and not half so guileless as she
appears. She has admirable control of her
muscles and her features, and can assume
nonchalant air with ease Without any
intention to do her injustice. or contribute
to the decadence of her business, it is sim
pie duty on the part of this journal to re-
cord its conviction that all she does in her
exhibitions is due to physical causes, and
the result of muscular effort and adroit
management on her part. To explain
in detail is altogether too extended
a task for this time. But as examples, she
does not Gift persons in a chair When
Joseph Sims last evening insisted upon
keeping his feet from the floor, she was
unable to lift him in the chair, and Mr.
Sims offered $1,000 to any one who could
do it by pressure of the sides of the back of
the chair. When j. H. Carroll would
touch his feet to the floor, Miss Hurst easI-
ly tilted him forward and lifted him
slightly, for the reason that by pressure
upon his back with the chair and the re-
relieved Of over one-haf his weight. In
the cue trick she was plainly seen to seize
the cue with her left hand, while it lay in
the palm Of her right, and the upper
end was pressed between her body and her
arm. This was repeatedly done. ANY
one who viii Law a billiard cue or stout
stick, on the open palm of the right hand,
press it lightly beneath the arm and then
below the right hand, slightly press
the cue on top with the fingers of
the left hand, VIII find he can at once
resist the push of strong man applied to
the cue above the hand In the umbrella
trick it is impossible to discover to what
extent she graSps the handle: but she Ger
tainly does, and so suddenly dashes ii upon
the victim that he is disconnected, and hold
the stick tightly as he may, he can easily
be pushed abOut-indeed the harder his
grip and the tension of his muscles, the
easier he can be jammed around by the
operator. In the only remaining trick
several persons, standing erect hold chair
claSped tightly between them. Miss Hurst
places her right hand upon horizontal Stat
of the back OF the chair and between it and
the body of the holder, who clasps the back
Of the chair to his breast The left hand
she places palm down, and open upon
the cane seat at first, but frequently
thereafter SEXES the edge of the
chair with that hand. The victims
are instructed to clasp the chair tightly, the
closer and harder the better Thus situated
she easily swings the quartet about, it be-
ing very much easier topush or pull man
who is braced in this way than most people
imagine. A trial can easily be made TO
demonstrate this, and practice Will make
perfect. The only part of this feat that is
difficult to account for, is the holding OF
the chair from the floor, when four or five
strong men attempt to force it down In
that case the young lady had her hands
beneath the chair last night and was
plainly seen to hold it tightly Unless
the struggling men really form an arch of
pressure, and aid IN the suspension of the
chair, then the lady is a Samson in
strength, for at one time last night she had
but one hand under the chair seat when
four men We're forcing it down. In part
of the trials the chair was forced to the
floor In the cue test last night, with I'm
der Sheriff Lee in the lead, the stick was
by four men, three times in succession sent
to the floor, Miss Hurst being unable to re-
Sist them wholly The conviction grows
iirIner as the matter is the more consid-
cred, that the Georgia Wonder is simply a
remarkably strong and adroit girl.