Arizona silver belt., 1894-12-01
DANGEROUS BUSINESS.
Tho Perila Attendant Upon an
 Aorobat's Career.
An old-Time Professional Relates Some Thrilling Tales of Terrible Falls Of Himself and Brothers-His
 Advice to Boys.

William Hanlon, of the firm of Han lon Bros, producers of stage speetacles and pantomimcs, has had a remarkable career. The llanl6ns did not come to America until the year 1881, but before that time they travelel continually in all sections of the earth. William Han lon, the only remaining member of an acrobatic family, has given mp gym uastic feat3 for good and is now de- voting his entire time to the produc- tiou of his pantoinine, "Superba."
 1t is q question, and great ques- tion, whether the success that might be gained by q professional acrobat is worth the years of constant training, the bardships and terrible dangers of following such vocation, said this fa- aaus Fymnast to representative of the Chicago Inter Ocean recently. "I would not advise a young man to un- lcrtalee to become professional aero bat for those reasons. l remember I got my first fall at Malta through the careless of Mir Lees, to whom had been apprentieed The drop was only about twenty feet, bat lost my senses Che moment l began to fall. h subse- quent falls 1 was conscious until the thud came and in my first great fall, strange as it may seem, had time dur ing the drop of thirty-five feet to think of all the terrible accidents I had ever seen in my life and of many other things as well. This last happened in Manchester England. and the result was badly broken arm, which the English doctors failed to properly mend. was laid up for year, during which time We eros ed the Atlantic, and Dr. James K. Wood. a then famous New York surgeon, fixed me mp in good hapc a job which caused great deal ot talk at the time among the med ical profession throughout this and the old country.
 ''I had another terrible fan in Ha- yaua, Cuba. In Rio de Janeiro Brazil, got another bad tumble in fact allof ay brothers as well as myself had at Least twenty bad falls during our aero- 4,.tic career, but the wurat happened 3 poor Thomas ft was at Pikes opera aousc, Cincinnati Tn ell our career ge had never used nets, as they do nowadays, and you ean costly imagine what tumble to . hard stage floor meant to any If us. lu making tic flying iTap from one tapcze e mother ThGmas l1s' his hold and itl, into thc fo3ilishts, baundiug from there into the orchestra and nnashipg thc bass giolir His head struck two gas jets, scasiug them of, and t was Q long time before he seemed on the road Co recovery.
 Strange enough. just one year from that time we were again playing in Cincinnati and one night Iuomas was ais.ing Tie was lauud few days Jtcr wandering m demeuted coudi- .ian in Harrisburg na. md died there. It was afterwards found tGat a frag- mcat of the skun, which wus fractured Oy the fan, had penetrated the brain.
 .Sun, there are bright sides to the life of the professional acrgtat If he is saPertor ia his ljnc his ttiunpls are absolute and pleasing lie is received wcll wherever he goes uud he is given opportunities tU zee things that many wealthy peaplc arc even unable to ob- serve, a5 was ,he cac witA us We saw aad Eet many members of royalty. In. ludiug Eugeuie empress of the French;
 achess of Theba of spain. duke
 ud duchesscof Elba, and tho queen of
 pain, but of all Che royal people we net the rajah of 8urdnan was the most magnificent. ilis throne which was allowed tpscu also, was the c0sllicSt on earth 1t was wide enough for two very large men to sit on and built of olid gold The seat was upholstered ia ihc finest down and satin, and the arms terminated in two knobs each half the size of mans head thiclcly incrustcd with rubies IS large as pigeons egg and other rare jewels. 4 silken canopy was surmounted by dove. which was ablaze with frst-water diamonds of great size This throne was worth kings ransom, but every thing in the rajahs court was on similar scale of magnifcence. The BrahmiR priests had Q remarkable influence over the prince and were constantly coneocting plans to rob him and enrich themselves One was Co in- 3uce him to build golden cow life izo, hollowed 50 that he could get in idle, and once or twice year fast for wenty-for hours. At t5e princes death the golden COW was to become the property of the priests. The prince dicd All such sights and experiences go to make up the enyiable side of pro feSsionable acrobat's life but the other side leaves me the only survivor of once large and happy family. Boys don't do it."