Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-09
AT GAY coNEY ISLAND.
The Tip-up is the Thing That Amuses
the Crowd There Now.

Every year Coney Island offers to
the public something new in the line
of a startling sensation. Year before
last it was the flip flap and last
year it YVES q different application OF
the same principle, called loop the
loop" Before that it WAS shoot the
chutes' and yet further back IN the
past The roller toboggan. Still fur
Their back there WAS a gyrating merry
go-round called the .'razzle dazzle.
and away back in the dim long ago
the elephant, while older even than
that was the elevator tower.
Coney Islands inventive genius is
nothing if it is not cumulative.
good thing is kept going until it utter
" ceases To draw a crowd The tow
er. the "razzle dazzle" the 'chutes.'
the Flip flap" and the loop have all
survived the stage of novelty. They
have become Coney Island staples
They win the ready shellles of New
Workers year out ard wear in, what
ever else comes. TIE elephant never
paid. and the confagration in which
ne persisted was n godsend to the
owner. All hair raising devices are
moneNmalSers. The more wildly, the
more deliriously diabolical they are.
the better they pay. Each new thing
that stands the public on its head and
makes it a worse kind of spectacle is
called in the expressive language of
the Coney Islanders 1.-The sensation"
This years sensation has not vet
been launched. 1t is built and soon
4 l,r o.t,. toto ~.
and the public is to be admitted to its
enjoyment at 10 cents per thrill.
Doubtless the ticket seller will CT,
that there are ten ---.s for 10 cents
That is the Coney Island conception
of conservatism. Nothing is consid-
cred AN eXaggeration unless 1T multi
plies the truth by at least 100 The
name of the Sensation is UNIQUE
and expressive 1t conforms in every
way to the photographic precedents at
Coney Island 1t is the "tip-up."
The machine is a complication of twin
Ferris wheels with m elaborate teeter
1t is cleverly constructed piece of
mechanism. We'll calculated to excite
the admiration of engineers. architects
and structural steel specialists to scare
the life out OF girls who delight to RELY
on 4 strong arm in emergencies, and to
make babies cro< in ectasy. The wheels
to which four cars are attached. Ferris
fashion. are about 40 feet in diarceter
and are pivotcd on the ends of the teet-
er board which is a steel truss over $50
feet high. One end of the enormous
beam tips up and its wheel goes
round while the wheel Il the opposite
end stops as 1t goes down When it
reaches the stage at the bottom the
people in the lower car get out, if bust
ness is good other people get in, the
wheels turns a quarter of it's circumfer-
ence. and the same operation is re-
peated for that car, and afteyward for
each of the two others. All this while
the other wheel, about 100 feet in the
air. is slowly revolving, but when it's
mate is ready to go up it stops and
comes down 1t is
claimed that mixing the two kinds of
horror makes Il blend that the most
blase Coney Islander cannot resist The |
Oldest and most inyeterate shooter of
the chutes and looper of the loops cam
not be tipped up with a genuine sense
OF novelty and a conNulsive thrill of
excitement. The machine is to be oper-
ated by electric power generated on the |
promises, and the money will be re-
to anyone who, at the close of
his ride, can conscientiously say that he
having taken the ride
When the amount of time in which to |
think ii over calmly and deliberately |
is considered, the generosity of the |
owners of the "tip-up' cannot fail to be
appreciated. 1t shows that they believe
in the excellence of their new
lmusement-NeMY York Tribune.