The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-11
MAY MARCHAND STARTS FOR Nj
AGARA.

MAY MARCHAND STARTS FOR Nj
AGARA.
Does Not Know What the Word
"Fear" Is and Everything Is Pre-
pared for the Foolhardy Adventure
From the Chicago Tribune, Sept. 7.
Monday, at all events not later than
Tuesday-unless Miss May Marchand's
courage should fail at the last moment
Niagara falls will recapture from the
Brooklyn bridge and the Elffel tower the
international belt for cranky adventure.
Miss Marchand's friends at No 233 Wash
ington boulevard were in tears last evening
But with a smile On her face and sklrtless
blue flannel suit in her trunk, Miss Mar
chand tore from them and took the
o'clock Pennsylvania train for Fort
Wayne She will meet her manager
there to-day. Tomorrow they will
go incognito 10 Niagara Falls, Canada. And
at the first opportunity to elude the wa ca!
men of Queens park Miss Marchand will
throw herself from its shore wall into the
water aud shoot the falls.
VIII she be picked up below dead or
alive!
81 don't care which" she said, arranging
her hat and brown hair before the strip of
mi ror between the windows as she took her
seat in the sleeper. 81 may as well de
young and happy as old and wrinkl3d"
THE GIRLS OBJECT.
Miss Marchand'S blue eyes looked too
bright, her cheeks Goofull Of color, and her
health too near perfect for the speech to be
entirely sincere. But she is French girl.
and doubtless did not see a wide difference
between death and wrinkles.
''What is your object In undertaking this
venturep
81 want to be the first woman to go over
Niagara falls. | simply want to do some
thing to distinguish me from the rest of my
sex. am tired of being nothing b ut one
of millions on millio IS of girls. Ii were
man should do something else. 1t would
hardly individualize aman now to 60 over
the falls since Mr.. Graham went over lat
Sunday. But girl, or
Miss Marchand, not quite 81 years old,
pretty in spite of an oy rfull mouth, might
have sat for Jeanne dare, as, with glow
ing eloquence, she told Of her ambition to
free herself from commonplace girlhood
''In case you SURVIVE Will you enter
dime museum"
Mss Marchand's blue eyes grew dark
with Indignation. nnn
You misunderstood me-" she said scorn-
fully. II pay all the expenses of this ad-
venture. L shall make no money by it,"
Are you sure of your courage"
Miss Marchand received the question in
creduously.
"Courage." she repeated. @e."Did you ever
hear of coward among tie French! Fear
is an unknown idea in my family. Not
long after our arrival in tGiS country my
brother George became the engineer Of u
passenger train on the Cincinnati Southern
railroad.
George, the fireman, and several of the
forward brakemen sighted an approaching
train on the same track in Sloaa'S va lef,
Kentucky The fireman and brakeman
jumped off, but George stood by his engine
and SO succeeded in Stacking the speed CT his
train that the people in the rear coaches es-
capped with slight shock. But George was
killed. He lived long enough, however, t.
send to mother the words: Il died at my
post That was eight years ago, and
George has been my hero since,
HER SISTER WAS RECKLESS ALSO.
"My sister Nanine died, too, because she
could not be frightened. Four years ago
we we're in Akron, o. A young man drove
up to our house in a break wagon with
wild colt. Several girls and young men
were on the porch with sister and myself
as he came up. The young men had to run
out and hold the colt while its owner leaped
out of the wagon. My sister chaffed the
owner for not having the animal under bet
ter control. Some one said: You talk as
if you could drive the colt yourself,
Nanine.' L would not be afraid to try it,
she ans cred. A bet was made. She Sprang
into the wagon, grasped the reins, and flew
down the road After racing with the
wind for a half mile she was thrown ont
and killed. Fearl 1 don't know what it is"
But your parents; don't they objectH
81 have slipped away from them" she
said, in mock whisper. They are at
New Castle, Pa, and both being old. they
cannot follow me. Last summer, while at
Niagara, wanted to go over the falls, bu5
they heard of it and prevented me. This
time l have employed a manager TO provide
against any surprise"
''Will not the government take the place
of your parentsp
.'Which-ths United States or Canadas
OF course it's against the law of eft ler to
attempt to go over the falls. But just be-
cause there are two governments it's an
easy thing to outwit them both. You see
one-haf the Niagara river belongs to Can
ada and one-half to the United States. My
programme is to enter the water on the
Canadian side. shoot the Canadian bend OF
the horseshoe folls and emerge on the Cams
dia shore below. | will then be spirited
at once to the American side. No offense
will have been committed ag ainst TIE
United States, and Canada will forgive as
soon as l am beyond her reach"
HER PREPARATIONS.
"What will be your preparations for the
perilous journey?'
"Mr. Ora am, the. Buffalo cooper, has
already made me one of his famous barrels.
1t will fiji almost as well as a tailor male
dress, being just my length, and ju, my
- well, circumference. OF course Isban
wear a special costume. It'sof blue fl Anel
without any superfuous cloth or tram
mings"
"Wlll you be loose in the barrelp'
"0h, no. l shall prof by Mr.. Graham's
experie ce. His head was badly bruised
by The whirling and humping be received.
/ shall have my head encased IN cork,
which will lie fastened irnmovablY to g