Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-07
ADDnE LAMoNTs FLIGHT.
Gliding 3s5 Feet Down an Inclined Wire
While suspended by Her Teeth.
- a ~ ~ $500

UAuihG $40 Feet DO an Inclined Wire
while suspended by Her Teeth.
From TIE Ne,o York Herol4.
Plump and peachy little Addie Lamont
tripped out Of one the legs OF the big
wooden elephant at Coney Island yester-
day. Her legs were encased in pink tights,
and her body was attired in mass Of
pink and blue rufiles. A name Of soft
| brown hair flowed down her back, and her
feet were imprisoned in pair of tiny gold
boots.
A large crowd had gathered to see the
plucRy gymnast slide down 800 feet OF in-
clined wire while holding on by her teeth
alone. The wire rope was stretched from
the gorgeous yellow howdah to two
crossed wooden posts braced firmly in TIE
salt meadows. The longest slide ever
made was that of Emma Juta in the
Paris hippodrome, when she accom-
! plished a flight of 800 feet without break
ing her Jaw or her neck.
IT was fully $3.50 O'Clock before Addie
walked out on the meadows where her
swarthy little husband was Juggling away
at trapeze on the wire. She had good
| broad shoulders, shapely limbs and small
I hands. When little iron wheel was
fastened on the wire rope in a socket, and
a canvas and leather mOuthpiece was at
tached to it, the girl became very ner-
YOus.
"Get that blanket ready now" she
shouted as she jumped into the trapeze at
the foot Of the inclined wire. something
may happen while | am beingpulled dup"
Two men seized a piece of carpet with
ropeihandles and held it IN.
''lbe first two men are always knocked
down. explained the little husband.
Both men dropped the carpet.
ooh, come, you won't mind It," pie adj
ed the husband. "She knocks me down
often"
The men winked and nodded.
"Oh, ! don't mean that way" con
tinued the husband. 81 mean when l am
holding the carpet. Oh you'll like the
sensation. It's bracing, it's exciting"
rwop powerful fellows held the carpet up
and braced their legs while the little hus-
band stood behind it. Then a crowd in the
meadows yanked a hemp rope which
hoisted the trspeze and its fair occupant
up the inclined wire. When she was
about 1875 feet high and $40 from the posts
where her husband was she gave the sig
nal to stop.
''m afraid of this durn thing" said
one of the st8lwart carpet holders.
"Oh, you'll like it. It's really nice.
Quite an interesting experience, | assure
y0u,' said the husband, with a sickly
smile,
Just then a cannon went off, the band on
the elephants back played 1.-The Man on
the Flying Trapeze," and Addie got out
of her trapeze. One foot held her back
and both hands gripped little bar run
ming through the wheel while she got q
firm hold on the canvas and leather strap
with her teeth.
Swish The moment the girl let herself
loose she came flying down the rope at a
terrific speed with folded hands and bend
ed knees, IA II in prayer Her hair nut
tered behind her and her bosom heRved.
AS she came down her speed increased.
The men with the carpet had a sudden
and curious trembling at the knees.
mice! very nice! Really eXcitingW
muttered the husband, eucOuragingly.
The girl threw herself into beautiful at
titudes, nut the crowd was hOrr0I-stricken
when she neared the ground, as her speed
was something trightful.
Catch ON" hOwled the husband.
The next instant the pink and blue angel
went through the carpet like cannon
ball, knocking the two men head over
heels. Her husband caught her. but one
of his hands struck her stomach as she
face turned white, and she cried out, as if
in pain:
''Let me loose" throwing two or three
men aside.
My DEAR" murmured her husband,
trying to put his arm around her.
son, 90 away, she said in a tone of dis
gust. 81 want to get my breath"
In a few minutes she was able to walk
to her dressing-room. and soon was quite
recovered. She said that the wind was too
strong. and that the strain on the muscles
Of her jaw destroyed her hearing 80 that
she did not need her husbands warning
to catch on the handles of the wheel with
her hands and with her elbows break the
force Of her fall. She said that she would
90 the whole 800 feet neXtsSaiurday under
the supervision OF Manager Hamilton.
just then the two carpet holders skunk
deiectedly away from the meadows.
''Not so very nice, either; Ell, Billw
said one.
mot SO very" was the sympathetic
answer.