New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-19
HAIR RAISER.
Looping the Ouadruple ChaSms in
the AeriaL Paradox.

Not content with presenting one startling act,
in which. 10 use the expressive language of the
circus poster, beautiful woman dallies with
death by looping the gap in an automobile" the
management Of the Barnum & Bailey Show.
which opens the at Madison Square
Garden next Thursday afternoon. announces
a second sensation of the same daredevil
order This new thriller is known as loop
ing the quadruple chasms In the aerial para
dox." and instead of having one daring per-
former, it depends for it's success upon two fear
less bcyclists who make a startling, simultane-
Gus flight through the air two wheels.
This latest development in aerial wheel acts
Is the invention of Ugo AncillOtti, the greater
part Of whose life has been spent in thrilling the
Continental public by performances of a sensa-
tional and perilous character The "quadrupie
aerial paradox is said TO be the climax of his
inventive efforts.
The apparatus utilized consists Of two inclines
or chutes set wide apart, each at angle OF
% degrees The continuity of one of these in
clines is interrupted about the middle with
an opening, and at about the same place in the
other incline is a break made by the loop the
gap" which is the loop the loop" with a sec
ton of the loop removed leaving an open space
Near the eXtremitles Of both inclincs second
Interruptions or breaks, over which the cyclists
must leap before their feat is finished.
Two men, the brothers AnciIlotti start from
the apices of these double inclnes on bicycles
and at a signal push their wheels from the
rest to the point where the descent begins and
go coasting down the narrow way at lightning
speed. gathering impetus at every fresh turn of
their whirring wheels. One, reaching the first
wide gulf III the incline. takes a sudden turn
upward and forward. seeming to soar away in
space TO a Giddy height clearing the forty-fve
foot gulf and landing gracefully, but with
laundering thud. the second section Of the
structure. From here he speeds on, when again
he IS seen TO shoot far up in the air, clearing
another chasm thirty feet wide. Striking tho
opposite side. third section of the incline he
wheels down the track safe and unhurt In
this descent the rider makes two midair flights
over two crevasses, the first forty-fiVe feet and
the second thirty feet wide or seventy-five feet
IN all. But this Is only half the act, the Jour-
ney of the other rider has not yet been told.
The other rider. starting even with the first
one, races down the incline until he reaches the
loop with the gap, when, quick as light and half
circling the loop, he flies across the open space.
while wheel and rider upside down BY
centrifugal force alone, the wheel and rider
propelled across the open gap in an inverted
position, and striking the opposite side of the
open loop with resounding thwack the finish of
the broken circle is successfully accomplished.
This is the real loop the gap" exploit but it
does not end here. An addition has been made
been increased; for, instead OF the complete
circllng of the loop and gap finishing the feat,
il gives to the wheel an added force and speed.
enabling the artist to take flying leap across
q thirty-feot chasm similar the in the
other incline. With the last leap the achieve
ment is successfully completed. for this per-
former also reaches a place of safety on the
ground, laughing at fate.
At the precise moment one brother is lea ping
the gap and soaring in space in an inverted po-
stlon his body underneath the wheel. his head