New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-02
UERRMANN DID Not WEAR 4 PAD.
.rttr urRALD.s.' FREE ICE FUND BENEFITS by
HIS ABILITY TO STOP REGULAR ARMY
Dt.IJETs WITH IIIS HANDS.

BULLETS WITH IuS HANDS.
Those who were present at The HERALD Free Ice
Fund entertainment at the Metropolitan opera
Hons lac, evening are stu wondering whether or
not Uncle Sans soldiers were in COLLISION with
Hermann the magician. when they fired at him
with the regulation Army ammunition and he
caught the bullets In his hands. 4 squad OF 'ni'el
States soldiers from Governors Island apparently
fired one voIcy at the slightofhan performer WHO
seemed 70 mind II no more than ne woud Il Vo'i'!
from a pea shooter Mr.. Hermann did not touch
ar handle the ammunition or the guns previous 10
tho nerformance The cartridges were examined by
different people In the audience ana by committee
appointed TO mark the bullets which were theh re-
turned TO the soldiers Of the firing party The rfes
yere then loaded The squad was marched 70
raised platform at about the centre or inc HouS'
while Hermann took his position at the centre OF
tho etage There were no screens or mirrors. Ap-
parently ne had protection. ana apparently S'N
bullets from six rifles few at him when the worn
10 fire was given. Hermann hcld Ms hahuS "'i"''
his face and almost simultaneously with the report
OF the rifles he dropped the marked bule'S 10 inc
roor Whether the cartridges fred were not the
same ones examined by the audience or II here was
inst enough powder in them 10 sena pu"e' 9"o
distance the loud report being maze by an c~pi'
sion OF powder which had no connection WIN ''e
h,,,a.s az IN the old cannonball trick. no one knew"
Every one there satisfied that " was IL hy9-
i,v,ng and bewidering trick. and the shouts OF ap-
nrovaI were an evidence Of the appreciation IeIt
for the magican's work
coperaI @ O. Howard. who allowed the SOLDIERS
% do the firing was present at the performances
and he said afterward that he had UNDERSTOOD 'ha'
,h magician was 20 stand behind a screen "heh
a. sbo,s were fired and that when he saw heH-
.rn stand in the centre OF the stage anu ue
,d,nrs haze away at him he was astonished. lie
ia not expIan the trick. When the cartridges
- examined by the audience one man found
", the bullet in cartridge was loose. rehci hi
,IIn,ard said that thai was not az an uhuruat
iTS charitable purpose for which the enter
III, ,.as given brought large NUMBER OF p,op.o
nhe'.t onera House, and the Free Ice rum ~,
70 , u hig addition Of money as the result. "a ~
CIV Hermann was exhibited IN hstonlshIis en- az.
sk r1hensibe seight-of-hand tricks IN me ~, ~ 80
lnco"iI no evening he Pleased eVeryDpiy py !i.rh
par. %, Va,ure's avs aside. and MS renark ~,
tnaa ,o,, watch the less you see, Was pl1' IT, ~
c.os COST he did Mrs. Hermann aesls'eu 80 snr
e Sely In her spectacular dancrs ~, nd
enI.t and La Blanche. The ~ Kegan'"' magic
pent,he, -, az" music which. with Hermann a,
mar and mystery made deighttui eVe''"s ~
the Opera House. ,.a h, uavor Gilroy to ex-
80" he bullets was composer ol Jen1y Butter
seeve, Irecepion committee were Cnaresv iIier Ed.
Harry Man h,rn Horace Mcvickar and Jaeop M OF
iooeM Palmer, T. Henry French; Evans and Fred
i Wesley RosenqueA' S"
erick C. whitney