The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-02
DONE WITH DANGER
The Perfis Attendant Upon IN
Acrobet's Career.
a, 0Id-rlne Professional Relates SOFA
Thrilling Tales Of Terrible TaIls OF
himself and Bretec-s-Hr
Advice to BoyA

Advice to DoyA
William Hanloa. Of the fr1n Of Han
Ion Bros, producers OF stage spectacle
and pantomiInes. has had a remarkable
career. The Hsnlons did 10: come 20
America until the year 1851. but before
that time they travelled continually in
all sections of the earth William Ham
lon. the only remaining member OF an
acrobatie family, has given up gym
nastic feats for good and is now de.
voting his entire time TO the pro<iuc-
ton of his pantomine. ''Superha-"
1t is question, and great que~
ton, whether the success that might
De gained by professional acrobat Is
worth the years of constant training,
the hardships and terrible dangers os
following such u VOCATION said this "a,
nous gymnast 70 a representative of
the Chicago Inter Ocean recently. II
would not advise 8 Young man 70 un-
dertake 10 become professional Zero
hat for those reasons. | reTnerl her T
got my first fall 1T Malta through the
careless of n Mr.. Lees, to whom had
about twenty feet. bat / lost nv seuses
the moment began 10 fall In suisse
quent fails | was conscious until ths
'thud' came, and in my first great fall,
strange as II may seem, had time dur
ing the drop of thirty-five feet to think
of all the terrible accidents had ever
seen in my life and of many other
things Is well This last happened in
Manchester, England, and the rcsu!.
was a badly broken arm, which The
English doctors failed 10 properly
mend. ! was laid up fer year. 5uriua,
which time we crossed the Atlantis.
and DIR. James X Wood, then famous
New York surgeon. fixed me up in
good shape, a job which caused a great
deal of talk at the time among the med.
zeal profession throughout this and tina
old country.
II had another terrible fall IN Ha-
vana. Cuba In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
go, another bad tumble; in fact all o.
my brothers as well - myself had at
least twenty bad falls during our aero
hatic career. but the worst happened
10 poor Thomas. IL was at Pixies opera
house, Cincinnati In all our career
we had never used nets. as they DO
nowadays. and You can easily imagine
what tumble 20 a hard stage Eoo-
meant to any of Us. In making the
flying leap from one trapeze To another
Thomas lost his hold and fell into thu
footlights, bounding from there into
the orchestra. and smashing the base
L a a..
breaking them off. and IL was "a long
time before he seemed on the road To
recovery
Strange enough. Just one year from
that time We were again playing in
Cincinnati and one night Thomas was
missing He was found a few days
after wandering In a demented con4i-
ton in Harrisburg, Pa. and died there
1t was afterwards found that frag-
ment Of the skull, which was fractured
by the fall, had penetrated the brain.
"Still. there are bright sides to the
life of the professional acrobat. IL he
is superior Ia his line his triumphs are
absolute and pleasing lie l. received
well wherever he goes. and he Il given
opportunities 10 see things that many
wealthy people are even unable 10 Oh
serve, as was the case with US. We saw
and met many members Of royalty. In
Guiding Eugene. empress OF the French.
duchess OF Theba Of Spain. duke
and duchess OF Elba. and the queen u
Spain, but Of all the royal people wo
met the rajah Of Burdnan was the most
magnificent His throne, which / Wa
allowed 70 see also. was the costliest on
earth IL was wide enough for two
very large men TO sit on and built of
solid gold The seat was upholstered
In the finest down and satin. and the
arms terminated In two knobs. each
half the size OF q mans head. thicGly
incrusted with rubies as largo as
pigeons egg and other rare Jewels A
silken canopy was surnOunted by .
dove, which .as nhlaze with first water
diamonds Of great size. This throns
was worth q kings ransom. but every
thing in the rajab's court was on
similar scale Of maguificence. Tbs
Brahmin priests had remarkable
influence over the prince. and were
connecting plans to rob him
and enrich themselves One was 70 in
duce him To build a golden COW, life
.ize, followed - that he could get tn
eide. and once or twice n year fast FOR
honrS. ~ the princsI
death the golden euw was 20 beoorns
the property - the priests The prince
died Al such sights and experience. So
10 make up The enviabls si,ie of pro
,essiona Die acrobat life. bot ths otbsr
side leaves me the only survivor u .
once large and happy family Boys
don't do It."