The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-08-14
FAMOUS KRIss KRoss.
First Impression of Great Device by
One Who Rode On 1t.

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One Who Rode On 1t.
The following description is given Of
Darcy & specks noted amusement de-
vice-the Kriss Kross-as the first i'm
preston of one who had just ridden on
it:
The picture is one never to be for
gotten Imagine six punches of solid
eolors arranged in groups of five units
each, each group forming a separate
and distinct color of its own-like the
group splotches of pigment on an ar
lists palette.
Quivering, as with an electric shock,
they slowly start to move and melt
away until disntegrated into hetero-
geneous mass Of variegated hues
The quick, lively strains of popular
march reaches our ears-now swelling
into paean that reverberates through
+ the building like a clap of rolling thun-
der-now dying away like the distant
murmur of babbling brook far up
or the mountain side.
The sharp cries of hysterical women,
, the hoarse shouts of nervous men, the
shrill peals of childish laughter, ming
ling with the melody, make a fit ac-
compartment to the mad fantasy that
now flashes before our eyes.
The movement has become faster
and faster Two long, sinuous lines
! like monstrous snakes, notified with
all the colors of the rainbow, are
! winding in and out--twisting, turning
crossing and re-crossing each other
until the six separate groups are once
mere established and the six distinct
colors once more defined-but only for
moment and then they are again
ruthlessly torn apart and scattered
broadcast over the surface.
Faster and faster wind the snakes
louder and louder peals the music
shriller and harsher. sound the cries
until the eyes are dazzled and the
ears bewildered by the Kaleidoscope
chaos of prismatic revelry and we
would fain turn away our heads to
rest our dizzy brains.
No, this is not the dream Of Rare
bit fend, nor the hallucination of a
feverish brain-it is only spectator S
first impression Of new riding device,
called THE Kriss- Kross."
1t is indeed wonderful machine,
and the inventor, with machiavelian
Ingenuity, has devised an amusement
that appeals alike to both sexes and
to all ages.
The young maiden and her lover as
well as the smallest children are found
sErgly ensconced in the various We
| hicles, side by side with old gray
haired men and women, who have
lcng since passed the meridian Of life,
all enraptured with their novel ride.
If viewing the Kriss-Kross is be-
wildering, riding is doubly so.
There are thirty automobiles of diff
ferent colors with capacity Of l2O
people, fifteen going one way and fif-
teen the other, traversing a curi-linear
path over six complete circles, twenty
five feet in diameter, crossing and re-
crossing each other, now moving slow
lly as If climbing long and arduous
hill, now, as If the level road We're
reached, going at clip that almost
takes the breath away, lodging, as ii
were, around corners and miraculously
escaping collisions with other autos
racing at the same mad speed and
ming from the opposite direction.
With pulses rapidly quickening and
nerves stretched to tension, round
and 'round we go, now passing Sam
tren Mary, then Jim, faster and fast
err round and rcand, until the Whole
system is one mass Of pleasurable ex.
hilaration, and we begin to feel that
life is worth living. On dismountlng
we experience no feeling of nausea
not even trace of dizziness, and
when we realize there is absolutely nc
danger, that even our children are
safe, there is but one opinion-greatl
A fascinating sight to behold a me.
morable ride, to experience-the Krlss
Kross has come to stay