Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-02
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own free wills leads one to believe that
II is really a widespread sentiment.
On what other grounds, for instance,
can one explain the extreme non
chalance with which the circus per-
former follows his profession2 He en-
dangers life aud limb continually--in
billboard 'thrllers." which grow every
year more nerve-rmcking The loop the
loop is already a thing Of the past, by
far too tame for the np-to-date circus I;
and it is no longer sufficient to have
men place their lives in the balance,
but young women must needs be Inn
pressed ALSO Take Miss Isabel Butler.
for instance. who day IN and day out
looped the gap in an automobile, turn
ing upside down in midair.
Modern psychologists declare that
violent contrasts and great nervous
shocks are cravcd by large proportion.
Of the people. 1t is to satisfy this
craving that the circus managers search
the wide world over for men and WON
en- Of daring, to introduce the thrill
Norwegian, who travels the country
exhibiting In n leap for life on slender
skees.' From 4 platform more than
100 feet above the ground, he coasts on
narrow wooden runners, eight feet in
length, down a long slippery runway
tilted at an agile Of ~ degrees, to with
in hardly a ward of the level Of the
arena and then shoots out one hundred
feet through space describing in his
fight an are b feet high al the center.
The high diver who plunges from an
elevation of 30 or 60 feet into tank
of water rs shallow and as narrow, 1t
would seem. as can be built and still
allow one chance for life to remain. is
of course constant attraction. Few
OF those who follow this mild pastlme
live to make use Of mn accident in quite
the same way as did one Edward H.
Pape. After receiving an injury to the
fifth vertebra which raised lump on
the lslck Of his neck. he toured the big
cities with two confederates to serve
as Witnesses and mulcted street rail.
damages by falling off their cars mud
Stimulating the actions of man whose
spine had just been injured.
steeplejncl< and Iron Worker.
If their managers are to be believed.
men and women that perform these
feats receive proportionatcly high sal
aries, and are thus in a measure repaid
But the steepleiacl and the structural
ironworker labor in really useful fields
for day wages which. to the ordinary
prosalc mortal at least, seem not at all
commensurate with the risks they run.
Only year or two ago nonchalant
stcepejack climbed mp and down the
face of the Flatiron building IN New
York City With no other aid than that
OF his hands and feet-for two dollars.
No less Needless of their lives are
the ironworkers, who In the everyday
course of work, run around ON narrow
iron Orders 100 feet and more above
the level Of the street. throwing red
hot rivets from one to another. and
driving them home with giant swings
OF Sledges that would cause the ordin-
airy man to lose his balance even on
terra firma. Not content with these
risks they often ride through mldair
on the long iron beams that the der
rick raises from the ground and lowers
again into position ten, twenty. stories
above. High in the air without visible
means Of support, they engage in mimic
fights for the benefit Of the open.mouth-
81 hystanders, They have even been
known TO staud on their heads on the
very highest upright OF skyscraper
The Placid Well shooter.
The business OF well-shooting de
serves mention. Here the peris center
not so much about the men that do thC
actual work us about those who carry
nitro-glycerin to the wells With a few
dozen cans Of this extremely high ex
ploslve on his mule wagon, the driver
sits plaeldly beside catastrophe com
parable only 10 the crack o doom
Driving through mountainous country
he is in constant danger Of being blown
to atoms for the slightest jar is like
~ TO cause IN explosion
A few years ago. one of these mule
teers approaching the town Of Newton
Pa. along a straight road, halted hi'
team and alighted, intending to be gon,
only a moment Left without guiding
hand, however, the mules became fright
ened. and started toward the town at s
wild pace.
Some one san them coming. and rec
ognizing the danger, turned back 10
ward the village. shouting to the iphab
itants TO fee for their lives In tht
very center of the town the roat
swerved in a curve, and 1t was impoS
sihle that the mules could make tn,
turn without upsettIpg the wagon, TIL,
Inhabitants. expecting every minute tia.
destruction of their homes, fed IN hope,
less confusion toward the woods. for
getting that at the curve 81 the road