The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-10-11
coNEY ISLANDS TIP UP.
Amusement Ssskers Patronizs a Comb
nation Of Ferris Wheel and Tsster.

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Every year Coney Island offers 10
the public something new in the line
Of q startling sensation, says the New
York Tribune. Year before last 4
was the Clip flap and last ritz was
a different application of the same
principle, called 'loopt the loop" Be
fore that it was shoot the chutes'
and yet further back in the past the
roller toboggan. Still further back
there was a gyrating merry-go-round,
called the "~razzle DAZZLE" and away
back in the dim long ago the ele-
plant, while older even than this was
the elevator tower.
Coney Islands inventive genius is
nothing if it is not cumulative. A
good thing is kept going until it ut
terly ceases to draw a crowd. The
tower, the "~razzle DAZZLE" the
%"chutes," the clip flap" and the loop
have all survived the stage ofnoyelty.
They have become Coney Island sta
pies. They win the ready shekels Of
New Workers year out and year in,
whatever else comes. The elephazt
never paid, and the confagration in
whichheperished was godsendtothe
ewner. All hair-raising devices are
moneymakers. 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 specta-
Gle is called in the expressive han
guage Of the Coney Islanders, 'the
sensation"
This years sensation has been the
"tip up" The machine is combina-
zion of twin Ferris wheels with an
elaborate teeter. 1t is aeleverly con-
structed 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 a
strong arm in emergencies, and to
make babies crow in ecstasy. The
wheels, TO which four cars are at
tached, Ferris fashion, are about 10
:eet in diameter, and are pivoted at
The ends Of the teeter board, which, il
a steeltruss over $50 feet long, swing
ing at the center on a steel tower 80
feet high. One end Of the enormous
beam tips up and its wheel goes
round, while the wheel at the oppe-
site end stops as it goes down. When
it reaches the stage at the bottom the
people in the lower car get out, il
business is good other people get IN,
the wheel turns a quarter Of its cir
conference, and the same operation
i%srepeated for that car, and afterward
for each of the two others. All this
while the other wheel, about a hun
bred feet in the air, is slowly revolv-
ing, but when its mate is ready to 90
up it stops and aecommodatingly
comes down. 1t is claimed that mix
ing the two kinds of horror makes a
blend that the most blase Coney Is
lander cannot resist. The eldest and
most inyeterate shooter of the chutes
and lccper q the loops cannot be
tipped UP withC1t q genuine sense 81
novelty and a eonyul.iye thrill Of ex-
element. The machine is to be OPP
Grated by electric power generated
on the premises, and the money will
be refunded 10 anybody who, at the
close Of his life, can conscientieus9
say that he regretted having taken
the ride.
When the amount of time in which
to think it over calmly and deliber-
ately is considered, the generosity OF
the owners Of the "tipup" cannotfail
to be appreciated. Itshows that they
believe implicitly in the excellence