The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-05-22
TRICKY WEIGHTS IN LUNA PARK
MADE 50 TO PLEASE WOMEN,
PINCHED JUST THE SAME.

VOCsshuCO bbvC GVunuU OhVss W.
by Commissioner walsh -Daredevu
Curran Hurt Twice Automobiiin8
in HIS sauceriike Track ~ Couey
1t simply spoiled one young woman's
afternoon and evening and che was far
from fat at that-when Commissioner
John L. Walsh OF the Bureau OF Weiehts
and Measures and some OF HE assistants
went into Luna Park at Coney Island
early yesterday afternoon and found that
the Luna penny in the slot machines do
not come within Ave pounds Of registering
your exact weight.
The young woman had just cried JOY
ously that she weighed only in pounds
when one Of the Commissioner q assistAnts
approached the machine with Fred
Thompson and observed With inality:
And here's another machine that's Eve
pounds OF. Gotta cart II away and have
il corrected
What II 1t is five pounds OFF, asked
Mr. Thompson. II those scales were
being ueed befo the wah to sel slaves
by weight. yes. But they're made pur-
posely to underwegh at least Ave pounds.
DO you mean to say gaspod the
weight and measure purist, that tho
makers Of these machines deliberately--'
Sure the Coney Snowman answered
unabashed. Everything on this island
is built to make folks forget il. Women
uee the slot scales ten timos a. much a.
mon. Women. now that styles Of clothes
are running as they are. don't want TO bs
fat Makes EN- happier to learn that
they re at least a few pounds lighte. than
they really are. Get me?"
The Commissioner and his mon got the
scales temporarily instead. They had
driven to the island armed with tested
! weights and tried them on the machines.
The slot machines were carted away to bs
corrected'and the i>2 pound girl who had
overheard walked away slowly trying to
drag along her five additional pounds Of
grief.
Daredevil Harry Curran. who sprung
into eternal fame and reached a place
among Americas foremost mon by first
looping the loop on a bicycle and who
| now has built an automobile track in an
eighty-five foot wide building in Luna
came to grief twice yesterday when speed
ing around the twenty foot deep saucer
track. The track is 40 steep it is circular
and ia built at an angle Of sixty-fve de.
grees. too steep for a man to climb to the
saucer rim without the aid OF q rope that
the racing cara must go at a very grea,
speed to keep from turning Owe.
Daredevil started out blithely AZ +,
o'clock yesterday afternoon with blue
gasolene flames banging from tho side oi
the hood He had climbed almost &c
the top Of the saucer At his third whis
around tho little track when nail or some
thing ripped a rear tire and left il hat
| The machine threw fits with itself and
while everybody held his breath car
and driver took foolish path 20 the hot
rom Of the saucer and then tried to climb
the opposite 8s degrees.
Daredevil was hung out Of tho car
and scrambled up bleeding a. the aero
hatic machine fooled around the bottom
Of the saucer like a rocket cavorting on
the ground He grabbed things and
stopped the cars career. Then Dr. John
". Pierce OF Concy leland patched up
come scalp wounds not Of serious nature
and several cuts on the right arm and left
hand
BY night fine Daredevil was ready
10 try il again. just about 10 O'Clock
he was slamming around the track when
the car jumped through the air toward
the bottom of the saucer again. This
time Daredevil was cut biz deeper
on the arms and legs and generally shaken
up DR. Pierce took charge Of the driver
again and the show had 10 shut down for
the rest of the night.
! The conductor Of another kind Of ca.
a Brooklyn Rapid Transit elevated car
was lacersted about the hands and face
in the afternoon solely because the crowd
tina, went Coneyward Yesterday was the
biggest fret Sunday crowd since the frs,
SUNDAY Luna Park was thrown open
! in 1919.
The conductor Walter Dowling Of 81.
Fifth avenue. Brooklyn. had opened the
gates as usua! after the West End train
had left the Thirty-eixth street station &c
proceed the rest OF the way on the surface
and at the same time pulled up the wooden
flaps which cover the steps when the gates
are closed so great was the platform,
overflow that as the train approached the
Sixty second street station. Bath Beach
Bowling was accidently pushed OF his
platform DR. Jackson of the Norwegian
Hospital took the battered conductoi
to the hospital
Black Prince. the Dreamland lion
which on two successive SUM- Well
put il ano,her way. Harry Smith Of the
Ferrari animal show nj Dreamland. who
on two Sundays running had the dis
tinction Of seeing certain wild animal
OF the species which Bonavita four or
five times day all year, every year. tries
TO subjugate. was trai led steadily yester-
day by the Dreamland press depart ment
When Harry finally got too close to a
chipper Shetland pony used in the Dream.
land circus ring early yesterday after.
noon the pony shot backward with 9
babyish. playful thrust and kicked Harry
Smith gently in the face.
Harry was just fraction Of an inch
from the end Of the thrust. so he WASH ),
hurt badly. The press department apollo
gized because nothing more serious hac
happened. but Harry was OF the opinion
that little bit more than enough 10 plenty
His next friend. Pete Conklin. clown II
Barnim 4 first real circus, up at Broadwa,
and Spring street in the early eos and nov
ballyhoong at the age OF 20 at Dreamland
said yesterday that the boy will have u
stay out Of the animal show on Sunday,
frov,, thic ~, or 70 I'm nil tim, so,,>