Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-11
BRIDGE-JUMPER MAUDE.
she VIII Make the Drep from tho
BrooklJn Bridge AtiIrcd In ord.
nary Street Costume.
Among the Feats She Has Already Accom-.
phshed Was a Lenp from the Tower OF
the Chicago Water. works.
New York MornIne Jonrnnl.

rying along the big bridge yesterday one
would have supposed that the huge
structure was some sort Of man.o'-war
decorated with union jack flags and
manned by full crew OF blue clad tars
Brooklyn's fair bellies, as they trlpped
homeward, were particularly conscious
OF the presence OF policemen, who fol-
lowed them in squads clear across the
big arch. The little beauties thought the
olue-clad giants were smltten with their
charms
Some were not so delighted, however,
and curious episode was the simuitane.
Gus appeal to Officers Lally and Ludden
by two OF the pretty creatures for the ar
rest OF each Of the other policemen for
following the fair complainants. Then
the truth came out, and both officers ex-
planned with bows and bushes that It was
expected that a singularly beautiful
young belle from Chicago, named Maude
Delano, would try to jump from the bridge
during the day.
On the roadway the same caution was
observed, and big, black-whiskered officer
Winston repeatedly hung on behind the
heightened carriages as they swept over
the smooth pavement for fear that the
beautiful Maude might suddenly emerge
from one Of them and attempt to scale the
network.
At the point where Steve Brodie made
his plunge dainty Brooklyn schoolmarm
stopped to gaze down into the blue waters
OF the East River and to repeat thought
fully few lines from 1.-THE Bridge of
Sighs" She was shocked beyond meas
ure to find pair OF sturdy arms about
her while the heavy voice Of Officer Fltz-
gibbons said:
t'Not this time, my fair Chlcagoan."
The young woman tainted.
But with all their vigilance the bridge
police tailed to recognize the neat, modest
figure Of Miss Maude Delano, as she trip.
ped across the structure at about p. m +,
| leaning on the arm of her friend and
hacker, Jerry Costello. Nobody would
have taken the little lady for bridge
jumper, and no one would have supposed
she had nerve enough Yet the quiet cou-
pie were making the trip forno other pur-
pose than TO familiarize themselves with
the points OF vantage and TO decide upon
the best spot from which the leap should
be made.
Miss Delsno looks TO be not more than
eighteen years old. Her black eyes have
fearless fash, but the expression Of her
piquant face Is womanly. Her hair is "a
glossy black and is done up IN the pre-
vailing Mikado roll. A neat check white
and black dress does not conceal the con-
tour OF very graceful form. To call her
Chicago belle is libel on the neat little
feet encased in tiny pair Of low-heeled,
common-sense shoes.
The couple arrived In Jersey City yes
terday on the j o. m. train, on the Erie
road, and were met at the Payonia Ferry
House in New York by carriage which
took them TO their hotel on the East Side,
which they prefer for the present to have
unknown for fear OF police interference
"Yes,n said she to Journal reporter
Yesterday afternoon, al will show what O
woman can do tomorrow"
She exhibited q number OF handsome
medals, which she had won in swimming
contests in the West and boosted that she
had leaped from number OF high places
into the water before. At Council Bluffs,
Ia, she Jumped from the center OF the
bridge. At st. Louis she dropped from
the yardarm of ship. AT Chicago she
leaped from the top OF the water works
tower into Lake Michigan (), and at
Montreal IRON the great bridge into the
st. Lawrence:
Mr.. Costello, portly gentleman with q
waved mustache, explained that when the
leap was to be made Miss Delano would
be conveyed in a closed carriage upon the
bridge, and would spring out when at the
center, clad in her street-dress, with O
rubber band about her skirts.
81 suppose she will try it," said the
handsome officer who stood at the Park
Row entrance to the driveway last evening
"There is nothing Il man can do that
woman won't try, and they have more
nerve than man has, I'll be bound. Gun
men are talking OF nothing else than TINS
attempt to-day, and we're on the watch
| GU may be sure"
0Pshaw!n said Steve Brodie, who con.
descended to bend down from his pedestal
at the museum TO be interviewed ON the
subject. otis nawthing for woman tc
do, Her clothes will be just like a para
chute and let her down so gently dat she
viii think she's dreaming Let her Try
mems clothes ef she wants to DO some
thing big"