The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-23
THE LADY HAS LOOPED IT
THERWONDERS ARE READY AND
THE CIRCUS STARTS TO-DAY.

a., Feet Of Fearful, Flittlng, FuEaCious
Frolic With Death Knocked on In
UademolselleS First Descent, bat
shes smiling 6till-AdJectiye Lost.
Mile. Mnuricla de Tiers rehearsed the
Looming Of the gap IN an automobile yester-
day morning In Madison Square Garden,
as, % make sure that all would be ready
i,r the performances Of the Barnum a
Haley show. which will begin to-day. II
,-as the first time that tho autobolide, as
they called Il at the Folies Bsrgeres, had
feen dorc In America.
The automobile looks like the real thing,
With i's shiny red body and big tires. II
was perched on a platform at the east end
Of the Garden, away UP among the girders'
When the mechanism had been looked at
carefully, Mile. de Tiers climbed to the
platform and took her seat in the cart.
The DIP Of death" whispered Tody
hamilton. is imminent. IL II not FAte's
fearful fitting, fgnoIous frolic, freezing
tuo',--
II be finished the sentence no one heard
INN The lady had pulled the lever. The
automobile shot down the sharp incline
Of the rigamaiig, which is shaped like a
textbook with a sharp bend at the bottom.
n the machine wasn't fastened 70 the In
rline machine and woman would have
cone 10 the ground. but II Is carefully Sc
rrrad. and the car whiTled down around
go, r,,ryc at the bottom fthe outside Of the
,,rye mind voul with the automobile
,rreeIs up and the woman head down.
:, is hardly necessary 10 say that she was
,r.pped in the car.
ID, ~ AsaNN NaaHH fra TIn ~
vlrre the auto slips of the runway and
,ho T. into theair. The distance TO the second
art of the apparatus is said to be NIFTY
iprt II looks at least thirty, and 1t seemed
IN age LefOfe the gap was looped. The
automobile curved az II new ana stfuck
t.atop Of the final incline with thud.
IN the downward shoot the womRn's
lodv was parallel with the ground for
tycnty-fye feet Gradually the car as
,nmed a more normal position and still. at
top speed roared down the gradually de
s-sasing angle. Two rods from the finish
tbsre Was he sound of sphntering wood.
A front wheel Of the car had hit one Of the
rails which protect tho runway. IL tore
ont piece six feet long.
Mile de Tiers was almost unseated, but
th, car swerving. finished its journey.
The Frenchwoman bowed and smiled as
prescribed, but the smile Was not from the
heart. She was not hurt. however, and
her manager NJ. Erool, said Pooh. pooh!
in French when the reporters asked him
n he did not fear a repetition Of the acci-
dent
Nothing serious said T. Hamilton.
1T simply shows the appalling possibilities
Of this stirring, startling, stuPSndous'
sensational somersault
When | 90 around the curve upside
down. said Nile. de Tiers, i feel as though
nv head was about TO fall on. There is
also a choking sensation until get part
vay down the second incline. ! always
have a headache after the performance.
Last night al the final dress rehearsal OF
the entire circus the lady did not loop the
gap, but the machine did. As II rushed
onto the second part OF the runway " tore
away about FIVE feet Of the guard rail. II
seemed 10 be n genuine SIMS sh-Up, though
q peculiar coincidence.
Snle De Tiers looked over the damaged
guard nail and the machine and shrugged
her shoulders. An assistant press agent
asked her how she felt about It.
Eat is one Of re chances, said she, show
For minute earlier in the rehearsa
a real accident was threatened: A green
announcer started 10 introduce Les FTeres
Ancillotti, who loop the gap simultaneously
an hicyoles The announcer lost one Of
Tody Hamil toms terrifying adiectives.
There were seconds--they seemed minutes
during which the announcer looked as II
he was about to collapse, but he grace
fully recovered the missing adjective from
fold in the slip Of paper concealed in the
rain Of his hand. and-the rest was lost
n a vollev OF cheers.
The foot Of John Rooney, the bareback
rider, caught In the trapptngs Of his horse
and he was dragged several feet, but by
clinging to the horses neck he saved him
self
A few Of the acts stil need polishing,
The circus people say, but otherwise the
rhoyg IL ready for It's usual ship-shape first
Performance.