The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1893-07-26
Josh Griffiihs Vital 0rgansIange
Their Positions in
Anatomy.
A Couple Of Revolutions on Ferris
Wheel Do the Work fofm.
A Graphic Description What 1t
Feels Like to Get UP5
Feet in the AR
u MONEY coulan, &c, out.
towensboro MesseI

"Ohl pIiintil TetuTUeu lTViS Wi"
Fair n few days ago, and has been
kept busy ever since tellithe people
who can't 90, and those way they are
going and want "pointer$hat he saw
and how he saw il. Ami thousand
other things he took i'm ferris wheel.
This is a monster wheelP feet high,
made like an old fashid upright re-
volving swing, with al hundred
boxes bigger than ordH street cars,
and capable of carryingOO people at
one time. You pay sop to make two
round trips, which taxi mething like
half an hour.
Mr.. Griffith said 81 h't want to 90
mp in the thing but nFife did and |
made three trips to before | could
screw my courage uptt intoit. When
got in and the doots closed l felt
like my doom was ses Then it started.
1t went up slowly, by the time it got
forty feet high my was dizzy and
my heart was in my oat. Then my
liver and lights andlard all crowded
into the same plac4d ! thought !
would choke. / Jscared TO death.
There were about I ny women in the
car and they were chattering about
the lovely view anBing look at this
and see that ! din'tsee anything.
was down rs clo$ the bottom as |
could getand hay eyes covered with
my hands.
"Therewas and fellow in the car
and he was as baS scared as l was. He
was whiteas sliand the cold sweat
was running off dm. When we got
about a hundred high all the women
ran over 70 oEN OF the car to see
something Thyng tilted away over.
The OF Yer scaredbw and mysslf reared
back aSiaf as wiuld to get the thing
level, BUTT wo5t work. thought /
would die UH, unwe went till WI
got TO thctop. u don't have any IDEA
how high that ! took one look out
and thr of pr shot through me as
if | had ben fg lectric chair
ana lei the dead4 onges placed ON my
head. 1t was awf Away up there in
the sky, with apphtly nothing but air
between you and !, is enough to make
a man feel bad us5
1.-THE wind aswing, it seemed to
me, 500 miles an Ir and those boxes
were waving and ding about like bird
nest in the top otree / felt in my
pocket to get inybney. | was going
TO offer it all to I CONDUCTOR to put me
out. happenedhink that this would
do no good, but He'll you l would have
given $4,000 to been on the ground.
"Then we sta down. That was
worse than goin}. The women kept
running from o1de to the other, and
it kept me busy ing to get the car bal
anced. If it ha{ been for this oScupa-
ton OF my mindhould have died be-
fore got down s it was it only scared
me worse than 1. Finally we got to
the bottom and rose to get out. The
conductor said lad to make another
trip. The whebakes two revolutions
without changbassengers. / begged
him to let me and the women all
laughed at me told him | would give
him $40 if he vd only open the door
and let me jun put he wouldn't do it,
and we started It's no use trying to
describe how II on that second round.
/ was weak abick. The wind blew
harder and thf rocked more, and the
women changpides oitener, and the
floor tilted frfr. We seemed to 50
higher than 9id before. The minutes
seemed like d and | was sure my hair
was gettlng n Inc grouhp WAS 80 iar
away the ped looked like ants. oh,
how / envie@m! When that thing
stopped and door opened it was the
happiest mott ever experienced. I'll
tell you it whst like coming back from
death to lifqiy knees tottered under
me so that luld hardly stand, but |
hustled out here. When / struck the
ground maa firm resolve never TO get
off OF 1t agail | don't think l will ever
even 60 up IS any more.
mo, sir; int want any more Ferris
wheels in nj Ten thousand dollBrs
wouldn't be sort of inducement Ia
get me to mithat trip again."
These worfere spoken with such in
tense sincer1hat the reporter laughed
and Josh tuf TO his desk and resumed
the writing Otter recommending some
fellow Tor Hion as storekeeper-guag