New-York tribune., 1902-06-29
NOW IT rs THE TIP UP.
rv ISLANDS LATEST SENSATION
GUARANTEED TO THRILL THE
MOST BLASE.

- wear Coney Island offers to the public
.-bfng new in the line of startling sensa-
wear before last it the flip flap and
- -sar il was a different application of the same
.c,nle called loop the loop" Before that it
f shoot the chutes'' and yet further back in
s, the roller toboggan. Still further back
- was a gyrating merry-go-round, called the
-,e DAZZLE and away back in the dim long
,be elephant while older even than that was
.he elevator to"fr-
. not cumulative. a good thing is kept going until
.-+a-ly ceases TO draw a crowd. The tower
..,,zzle dazzle the 'tchutes,' the flip nap"
= she loop have all survived the stage of novelty
80 have become Coney Island staples. They win
=. -esdy shekels Of New-Yorkers year out and year
- -rbatever else comes. The elephant never paid
~ ~ the conhagration in which he persisted was
ro5seud 10 the owner. All hair raising devices
' -,oneynakers The more wildly the more de-
rsonsly diaboiical they are, the better they pay
~ new thing that stands the public on its head
- makes it worse kind of spectacle is called
- ,bs expressive language of the Coney Islanders
.rhe sensation
This wears sensation has not yet been launched
= Is built, and soon the electric power is to be
ssSSioyrent 70 cents per thrill Doubtless the
sEe seller viii cry that there ten thrills for
q oents That is the Coney Island conception of
E,Saryafisrn. Nothing is considered an eSaggera-
Icn sane OF this sensation is UNIQUE and ex
s5sa4s 55 PreoedentS at ooney Island, 1t is the
+ss machine is a combination of twin Ferris
-55ass with elaborate teeter. 1t is a claverly
,nsfructed piece of mechanism. we'll calculated to
sy--e the admiration of engineers architects and
-rucrural steel specialists. the life
iris who delight 10 rely a strong in
e-ersencies. and make babies crow in ecstasy
RE Wheels, to which four cars are attached. Fer
,5s fashion about forty feet in diameter and
.n nivored on the ends of the JeeIer board. which
ga steel over one hundred and fifty feet
;one swinging at the centre steel tower fifty
9ssf high. one end OF the enormous beam tips NJ
sn5 its wheel goes round. while the wheel at the
onnosite end stops it down. When it
rserAes the sage at the bottom the people in the
oUer car get out. IL business is good other people
eet in the wheel turns a quarter OF its circum-
fs-ence and the same operation s repeated for
,haf car and afterward for each Of the 1ers.
Al this while the other wheel. about a hundred
seet in the air is slowly revolving, but when its
mate IS ready 10 go up IT stops and accomnlo-
sre rwo kinds of horror makes blend that the
nSSsst and ncst inyeterate shooter of the chutes
erS Iooper Of the loops cannot be tipped up with
mi genuine sense of novelty and a convulsive
ffrfI Of excitement The machine is TO be oper-
sfed BY electric power generated the premises.
ana The money will be refunded to anybody who, at
rhe close of his life, conscientiousy say that
hs regretted having taken the ride
When the amount Of time in which TO think 1t
oyer calmly and deliberately is considered. the
generosity of the owners Of the Tip up cannot
an TO be appreciated. L shows that they believe
innlcitly IN the excellence Of their new amuse-
suent.