New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-07
pREp1RIyG no JUMP FROM THE BRIDGE.
ELABORATE ApPARArUs ARRANGED BY BROOK
LYS MAN.

ELABORATE APPARATUS ARRANGED BY kHooA-
LYS MAN.
Dennis F. Butler, brother-in-law.of = Mike
Donovan the weliknown Brooklyn sport ID pfep'r
ing to lump from the East River Bridge one VI tho'o
DAYS and say. that Paul Boyon, Dr. oL,sry' orHigh-
a. prookIvn and John W. Barton, OF Adams-st. Brook
are prepared to bet anything that tho thing VIII Do
doDo "
"This is no advertising job anything OF that khu
DR. O'Leary said "Butlcr means business, and II you
Just go down his house you'll SEQ whether IN not
right"
put1er xros fonnd In RI her poorly furnished at
No 33 sandss Brooklyn diligently working on the GU
rious wearing apparel which he says viii insure MN
against all injury when he strikes the water lie Is
feet 10 inches In height strong aud WHY and LOOKS As
he never knew cared for a knockdown dow IN the
series OF encounters he has had In the ring. He Is
twenyseven years OF age, weighs 1873 pounds ana Is Oh
dark complexion. al jumped from Passaie FAILS he
said "lsst sumner in the presence OF Mike Donovan
and several Others and yon know that Is SO
feet. I'll try how my apparatus WORKS there'
when have it finished then I'll 20 right down from the
Brooklyn Bridge with tho most absolute confidence In
1873 Jumped from the derrick in the Navy Yard ut
Philadelphia into the Delaware, aud that's 100 feet
Have you any backersi"
"Wel I havo Boyton 70 begin with He's making
ts heavy legginss with steel springs that WI"
wear on my legs william Booth. OF Adamss, making
the lead attachment for my shoes and Michael Barton
who lives door, Is making tho SHOES 10
a weight OF ffty pounds each FOOT but this leal will
spring of Immediately after strike tho water. shall
I'LL my nOstrls with putty and my ears with flannel
stepped in oil and all tho other padding around my
chest and legs will be also saturated With OIL III hold
ny hands straight over my head, and OK
pect to sink about twenty-five feet I'll be
all right after that" and Butler
rubbed his hands moment and then continued To work
away gleefully GA his d" apparatus as he called H.
L" But the police J.
'Oh they can't hinder me. can walk ri-ht over the
prsmenade dis guised old negro woman II | Hko
then climb the truses and get urdorneah tho prone
grim the police both sides OF the catrte
may sec me, but can do nothing.
The reporter visited the men who Butter shld were ala
iug him with his apparatus and found he tolng the
truth Tho who preparing the lead for the boots
has his part OF the work nearly flushed.
regular watch on the Bridge % prevent anything
like this II had ny WAY woud
NM mn a sprlng-soard for these banked ldiots
or course u ever receive any woll-grOunded nIorma
tlou that this lump eoins to be repeated I'll mako al
Tie prsparntiOns possible to prevent and fiso may
lie adop cd next tmo that We could not even guess
a. THIS Butter fellow was IN with mo last night con
tlnued the Captain, showing ono of his lead boots
But it's all bosh." ~,
Captain BoytOn was az his place In Twenty ninth
Eat and said that from maAing leggings
or ANYTHING else for Buti.r. he didn't even know the
man Il was yerJ impcrtlnsut," he said, Tor hin 10
tnenfion my uatsN | hal do with nf jump
N and will have nothing 10 do with such mad
prauks I got letter yesterday from fellow uancd
DDnAldsOn Of Wiliain-st proposing 10 Jump from lle
Bridge, out threw It Into tina IRE"