The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-27

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BY WILLIAM ALLEN JOHNSTON.
When you are brought face TO fac,
with those individuals who risk ther
hves 70 amuse The public about ID,
first query that enters your miud !,
the natural one:
why do you want to do it?'
A traction man in san Francisco
asked. IL Of Captain Baldwin when I'm.
latter offered 10 drop from the clouds
with parachute a distance nf oue
thousand feet. The police asked it OF
mn who lesped from tho loftiest
point OF an East river bridge And ]
have put the same question to a con.
sldelta bic number Of performers--to the
girl who does the dip of Death, .
turning a double somersault in midsir
While strapped hclplessiy in an auto
mohle; 10 the man who walks cooly
into cage, relying mainly upon the
mastery Of his eve TO make obedient
slaves Of group of Jungle lions aud
tlgegS; TO aerialists, high-wire artists,
tunhleIs, leapers, etc. And from each
and all the same answer comes;
To get the money
OF course they express H. differently
Captain Baldwin smiled and answered,
iHdC ny business. Inc bridge
jumper, wincipg under the pain Of
three fractured RIBS, said simply that
be hoped thereby 70 get q summer Job
At Conoy Island. One acrobat was pay.
ing for ranch In Kansas. 10 which
II all went well. he would shortly re-
tire; another was meeting the bills of
high priced specialists in attendance
upon his invalid wife, The white
faced, red Tipped French girl in the
IF Ia i
Der shoulders and walked away. Her
wage was only $40 a week
ITO get the monev' That's the
basis or the calling, whatever the ulti-
mate objects Of the performers may be.
And, after all, it is the same lure that
attracts the steeple climber and bridge
worker up. the dizzy, wiud-shalSan
heights, and the diver and sand hog
down beneath crushing rivers and seas
and that drove in limo those twenty
men ono morning ut the gates OF a
dynamite factory and made them strug-
gle IN competition for the places Of six
others who, on the day before, had been
blown TO atoms by n premature expo-
sion.
The Wege8 of Danger.
In one case it is breadand butter
money they want, money for immediate
wants. aud thereafter for regular daily
pay only the toll of daily existence.
In tho other cases il is money 10 be
saved, money which in It's accumula
+! tiop will some day give them surceasc
Of danger-but more than that, give
them the one thing in life each has
always dreamed Of having and wants
most
The sailor longs for a little farm aud
home the year round; tho locomotive
G v-rtb vol OF
the bell and whistle but not Of the
throttle; the slyscrapeT wants to settle
down settle down being literal IN
/ this case-down 20 earth and its peace
4 ful walks and away from those midair
struggles with changing, swinging iron
and kissing white hot rivets.
Mere phyE2csl danger it seems, does
not command high wage. The sand
( hog, who is only q shovel wielder. gets
as much as the skilled carpenter. but
The deep sea diver gets several times
more, not because his work is moro
dangerous than that Of the sand hog.
but because he IS an expert jack of all
trades. And the acrobat gets more
money than either workman because he
interests tho bloodthirsty public.
One spring afternoon / waited in
the New York office Of an agency
which "books' such cheerful acts as
The Globe of Death, - Looping the
Loop. Deaplng the Gap OF FIRE
and other fascinating feats Of death
d;sdairing downright deviltry.''
There was one other occupant OF the
room, also waiting for the manager. He
was short of stature and stoclSily built,
With broad shoulders. thick hull like
neck and the large overdeveloped hands
common TO racing bicyclists and auto
mobile drivers. Strange TO say, he had
soft, low Italian voice and a manner
mild and apologize.
There was large fresh scar across
the bridge Of his nose and others upon
his lips and chin. They looked like the
Inevitable trade marks Of the profes- !
sional 1'loop the looper." Was he
such7 l asked
Yes, " ne answered simply. q am
Eolo; " and producing a card. Dare
Devil Volo, il began. F'Leaping the !
Double Gap of Death Through Fire
Ny real name said Nolo gently, els
Nike Fasaro'
How did the accident happen9 Oh,
1T was at Baltimore, his first engage
ment for the season. There was a !
windy day and ne had given positive /
notice that he would not perform If The |
wind were too high.
Dips OF Death
You see. he rides a bicycle down |
steep incline, at the upturncd lower end |
Of which he leaps into the air through !
spoutine flames and on 10 a second in
cline: then through air and flames again