New-York tribune., 1901-08-04
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iupossible under the block system used.
one has sensations in looping the loop, but. like
everything else that comes in hurry. there is
trouble in remembering them. Tribune re-
porter looped five six times before he could
remember much about it. The most feeling
came with the rapid fall down the incline. 1t
WAS someth hing like the sensation one has in a
falling elevator. The loop part was over almost
before one knew it. The blood did not have time
TO rush To ones head. A few stars twinkled in
the sunIight-where stars should not be-as the
car went up the second incline, but they Were
all gone by the time the car reached the ground.
The loop is constructed under patents issued
to Edwin +. Prescott of Arlington. Mass. The
steel loop is thrty-five feet high. and the dis
tance around is little more than seventy feet.
The car is upside down for about one second.
Similar loops running at Atlantic City and
at Boston. The only accidents 50 far have re
suited from people putting their hands outside
the car which caused them To receive slight
flesh wounds. William =. Van Duzen The man
ager. is confident that the courts will permit him
to continue operations.
The Flip Flap is one If the attractions at
Captain Paul Boynton's ,hutos. 1t is called Il
centrifugal railway and the ears do a turn
around a wooden loop. The road is built on thu
Beecher. The track is in the centre Of the tres
tie work and the cars run two wheels placed
bicycle fashion As precaution. there are guide
wheels at each side which tracks on the
lower side of the trcstI-. The cars virtually
cIamped to the track. Every precauton for the
safety Of "hip-hapTers" i taken. and so far
there have been no accidents.
You can send a bucket of water around tn.
loop in of ouY cars. and not drop Will be
spilled" said Captain Boynton Yesterday. Cen
lrifugal force never fails TO do the work. and n
person could not fall out uf a IL he tried.
The same system which we use the Flip
Flap road Will day bring Chicago within
five hours Of New York Such a road IS pos
sibiIity and a company is heing formed To- build
il"
The Barrel Of Love" has been rolling at Coney
Island for several seasons. hut only this year
has centrifugal force figured in the crier's de
scriptions Before H. told Of tn safety Of the
strap which went across ones waist. The bar
rel of this attraction is fifteen feet in diameter
ana IL rolls in a curl "a track II turns one over
several times for single far" and the speed
IS not great. tho riders know very well that they
are upside down. once in Il long hill, the bar
r,l viii stop with its passengers in tn" air and
the attendants have busy time getting them
down. just where the love part of this attrac-
tion comes in on. seems To know. not even
the people who run IN" show.
In applying the principle Of Centrifugal force
To their amuscmcnts Coney Islanders cannot
say that they have decided novelty. As much
as half century ago centrifugal railways
amused the youth of Great Britain who visited
the Liverpool Zoo aud other amusement centres
in England. The cars in those days carried only
one person. but they turned upside down just
completely as do those at Couey. OF course
the English were not so uudigniiicd as to speak
Of looping the loop Tipping the Zap" Tt
that extent Coney Island is original.