The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-27

ran. let the trapeze go. stuck my head
through the loop and slid l didn't
know whether / could stan7 the strain
sc long. but l did, and l decided never
to do the slide in any other way. So
| abandoned the tTapeze. Since then
| have been hauled to the top of my
slide, hanging by the neck as you saw
me today. l have made the slide hang
ing by the neck, and [ shall keep on
doing it that way until l give up the
business.
Here Miss Russell showed the CORE
spondent of The Spy where two teeth
had been broken off. They snapped
one day while she was sliding in the old
way.
Yes continued Miss Russell, q be-
lieve [ am the only woman in the world
today doing the slide for life. No.
can't say that I am afraid. ] think
my frame of mind is similar to that of
man in powder mill. He knows by
theory and by experience that some dav
the powder he makes will blow up and
blow him TO fragments. But every CAV
he says to himself. Today will not he
the 0ay.' That's the way feel. Every
time ! slide, / feel that I shall make
Just this one slide safely. When I feel
dilferently, shall knew that / have
lost my nerve Then I win quit the
business"
Il have talked with Mile. about civ
ing this business up many a time -,
said Signor Monsulla, Miss Russelps
husband, but she win keep on Her
nerve VIII fail her after she is killed
and not before"
1t goes without saying that Miss Rus
SELL being "a years of age, and by no
means an unattractive woman, is mar
RED. Her husband isa trapezist of no
= nd
Doth himself and his wife without nee
essity of her placing her life in daily
peril.
The longest slide Miss Russell ever
did was down rope stretched across
Lake Quinsigamond, in Worcester.
some four years ago. The rope was
fast, 2 to a tall tree on hill, 30
feet above the surface of the water.
The slide was 1900 feet long. ANY fell
low who is smart at figures can cipher
the missing side of the triangle and
the degree of descent.
January 2 Miss Russell will do her
slide for life within the new union de-
pot, before half of the railroad mag
mates of the country One end of the
rope viii be 100 feet in the air. The
other end of the rope will be 700 feet
away.
Miss Russell and Signor Munsella
have signed a contract with the Kicka-
poo Medicine Company of New Haven.
CT, to so to Porto Rico in March. The
show will open in Ponce, the first city
of Importance captured by the United
States forces on that tight little island :
or rather it was not captured, but re-
ceived its conquerors with open arms.
Il expect to play to big crowds in
Ponce said Miss Russell. because
they are Americans in spirit there. if
not in fact, and they win welcome. l
am sure, with open arms. the only wo-
man in the world who is doing the slide
for life, at greater persona. risk than
any Spanish soldier in Porto Rico
dreamed Of taking while the war was
on
The Turn Verein held a concert
and ball at their hail on Branch street,
tonight. From 8 to o'clock an excellent
/ concert program was rendered by the
Germania orchestra of five pieces. In
formal dancing continued until mid
night. The floor was in charge of Presi-
dent Fred Baer He was assisted by a
competent force of aids. The grand
march started at 915, and was led bv
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Neubaer, followed
by so couples.