The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-06
SAM FISHERS ROLLER COASTER
It Was Built In the Back Yard According TO
Directions Given IN Ths Boys Play.
mate" Hut Was NJ Good and
Get = Lot Of Folks late
Trouble.
BI CuARIE s b. LOOMS.

oh' tnF IS 'es
to New York with his father and visited Coney
Island. and for the first time In his life took n
ride on a roller coaster. For the benefit Of
those children who have not yet tasted the
combined horrors and delights OF thu remark
! able invention. | will describe il.
IL IL an inclined railway several hundred
feet long. You climb up a ladder or u pair
OF stairs Ind sea, yourself in Il car or box on
wheels. Then an attendant gives the car Il shove
and you glide along the railway FOR Il few feet
and then take "A sudden dip, leaving your heart
behind YOU. and experiencing that sensation
that comes to YOU when YOU drop fourteen
stories IN an express elevator. You bob over
one or two hills and then fetch NJ either ona
level stretch or else IN the water, when tho
car scoots through the water Liz" a boat. III
you survive the first shock you are crazy for
more, and boys and girls are So constituted
that they always do survive the first shock.
Mr.. Fisher, SANS father. is n rather nervous
man. and he did not want sam 10 90 alone.
so he got into the ear with HIN, although he
expected to be brought back on a shutter.
lie grabbed the sides until II seemed a. II his
nails would pierce the wood. As the ear shot
forward he shrieked AT the top of his lungs:
Stop the car" Ia the great amusement OF the
onlookers, but YOU might ~ well try To stop
"A skyrocket after II has got ten feet away from
the ground ms to stop a roller coaster after II
has begun It's J%ournev, and poor Mr.. Fisher
was compelled 10 get his moneys worth aud
ride ont 10 sea on the terrible invention or
course, Sam was wildly hilarious, and wanted
10 ride some more, and Mr.. Fisher being IL
good-natured man, consented. bu, he said TO
the attendant i wouldn't go through thar
experience again for all the money that il made
al Conev Island IN II season.
After Sam returned home he told all the boys
IN the neichborhood about the roller coaster.
and they were crazy 10 60 TO Con.y Island.
but Whitevlllp the village where they lived.
is over a hundred miles from the coast. and
few Of them had ever been further than a score
OF miles from home
One day sam went 10 the pos office with
Bob Garrison, and although there were no
letter, for either boy, there was the Easter
number Of tn, Boys PlOBmdte. 10 which Bob
was a subscriber.
"Oh. goody." said Bob. I'm go'n' To sit
Town here under the tree as long IA there's no
letters for the house and read Bound 10 Win.
Did you read II last week. jim was riding on a
freight car. and he had ilst seen the headlight
Of The express on the same track when the
chapter ended.
The BOYS walked over to a maple tree that
already gave quite a little shade, II was early
IN Nav. sam WAS looking over Bob's shoulders
a. the pictures, when he gave a shout.
Bob. there is the very thing the roller
Cun-trr. Il tells yOu how 10 make one"
In "A moment Bob had forgotten Jim in his
perilous position Of a weeks standing. and
the two boys sat down under the tree 10 read
an account OF how TO build a roller coaster
in your back yard
But We haven't a back yard, said Bob. when
they had finished
Goose, " said sam: III i'm do in a back yard
whats he matter with The orchard or around
the house. and have il run around the house
two r'hrre times, and then 20 IN al the front
door and out the back door
"Thatd be- bully. said Bob. You have
such a long hall rhere'd be- plenty OF time to
slack mp. Bm I'm no good with a hammer.
and don't believe that could build one
well. | can. The Instructions are Just
as easy. and Zack will help us. And say, We can
use some of those 'wo-by-fours and those
telegraph poles that papa's been cutting to send
to the telephone COMPANY
The boys raced home fun OF the idea. Jack.
the hired man. was in the barn throwing down
some hay for The horses.
"Xack. Will you help us build a roller coaster"
said sam.
What a roller COASTER" said lack, Gaming
on his pitchfork.
'Ho, don't KNOW "ha' a roler ecoaster is'
said Boo derisIvely.
We'll. neither did you I'll | told yer" Sam
was fond Of Jack and he objected To Bob s
manner.
vam oxn,a,usd tho c,ntriyanc. md ,bs,
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showed IacR the artcIe.
You see. It's Just as easy 10 make, said
10 an ,ou.va rot IN dn ia in n,al,a four
nv =" ,'"' - ~" ~"
Wheels ana Il wagon DoA anu u frame 10 hoIu
thu track and run up Il ladder 10 the top and
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ava
Jack was "A nanny man anu ne >"'u j guess
We can fix one up IN u ii,ir while. 1t reads
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