Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-20

BTduudlly III was COM pell6Q 10 SLOW up.
Mr.. Douglass and the performing
bear seized the opportunity to take a
short rest Both we're experienced
travellers and never failed to take ad-
vantage of any chance to relieve the
monotony of journey.
Meanwhile an alarm had been
sounded upon all the trumpets held
by figures upon the Administration
building; telephones were at work
calling aid; the Fire Queen and all
the patrol wagons were dashing to
and fro; the Krupp gun was trained
upon the wheel, and all was hustle
and excitement.
Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack and Pro
fessor Hagenbeck, with high boots
ON, came riding like mad across the
Court of Honor and charged bravely
down upon the motionless wheel.
When within range, Mr.. Cody opened
fire and succeeded in breaking all the
windows that still remained intact
in any of the wheel cars. Texas Jack
lassoed the bear and dragged the
grateful little beast from the top of
the wheel, whereupon the professor
consoled the little animal by giving
him the usual lump of sugar taken
from the professors coattail pocket
Just at this moment engines 1899" "
John Bull" and DE Witt Clinton"
arrived for the purpose of hauling
the wheel back to its place.
They were just too late.
The wheel, having. lost headway
and remained still for a short time,
now began to be carried back along
the sidewalk. 1t rounded the curve,
ran along to the pier at the end, and
on coming back had acquired speed
that sent it off upon a new expedi-
ton.
This time the statue of the Repub-
lie realized there was something ir-
regular in the action of the wheel
and aroused from her lethargy
enough to step languidly ashore and
let the wheel go by. The Krupp gun
was discharged, but the missile, miss
ing the wheel, put an end to the
battleship Illinois, which went into
plaster chips with her flag still fly
ing.
Mr.. Douglass said pettishly, II am
getting very much bored at having
to run about on this axle, and | do
think the authorities of the fair
ought to do something to protect a
visitor from such an accident.
But his conscience told him he had
done wrong in entering the wheel
without having secured permission.
AS the great unicycle ran for the
Transportation building the statue
of Land" remarked, For the lands
sakeI' and hastily put on brakes, a
course for which he was commended
by Messrs. Fulton and Watt, his
neighbors. Stephenson, however,
blamed him for not first securing one
of the airbrakes, Of which there
were plenty inside the building.
Striking the Intramural line, the
wheel ran over Festival hall, explod-
ing the bellows of the great organ,
and then ran triumphantly up and
bursted the Horticultural bubble of
glass.
Just here, however, the wheel and
Mr.. Douglass caught sight of the
dome of the Illinois state building,
and the iron creature turned aside
with a sigh that could be plainly
heard at the British building on the
lake shore and then ran down the
Midway like a hunted stag.
Here Professor Hagenbeck and his
young men received the wheel with
stern glances that even that awful
monster of iron and glass found ir-
resistible. With a few lashes of his
long whip, the professor soon re-
duced the wheel to submission, and
at the word of command it ran to it's
place, climbed into position and was
still. The professor Immediately
gave the wheel lump of sugar from
his coattail pocket, petted it upon
the cogs, and saying There will be
no further trouble, think, " walked
back to lunch.
He had forgotten Mr.. Douglass.
How was the poor tutor to reach
the grouud2
He tried to climb down one of the
spokes, but slipped, lost his hold and
was falling, falling, fall
II really believe, boys, " said Mr..
Douglass, that I've been asleep. I've
had a remarkable dream. 1t was"-
But the brakeman called:
New York, last stop, all -
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