The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-14
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For he atrol1s

swtriing around its bases jumping
into the Harlem. q i did, meant ttht
n would have 70 drop, not straight
DOWN but twenty feet ont. and into
e spot where the under current Vas
making the ice cakes spin Ike tons.
Il didn't even wear lead WEIGHTS
on mn heels had on only 4 pair Of
old carpet slippers: pants and tlIr
snift Il took four and p half seconds
from the time I left tie railing to
Fhtn islt the water
y What vas supposed to be eighteen
tcet OF water proved to De only ten.
ishit the b0ttomsuf the river with I
siekening thid When { came 10 The
BiirfSee again, 29t.feet down stream
from the bridge, / was bleeding and
unconscious. Besides the bruises
which the floating ice had giyen me,
my jan vas fractured, fWo RIBS were
broken, and had contracted hem
offhage ofEhe throat AZ
Another good plunge i made was
from the clitfs Oyerlookfng the river
ct Spuyten Duyyei. These aren't
quite as high as the bridge, but they
belly out In jutting craxs. and there
are big molar rocSssat the base. ,ro
clear these l haa to make q swan dive
q suca q length FORWARD that yon
might have thought me the acrobat
who goes over the backs OF the cir
cns elephants, If onlySl werert.t doine
the stunt shout 800 feet In the air IN
stead OF I'VE feel.
This last stunt 1 did only the
other day, when the snow vas on
the ground and the river was lust
freezing over. II was for new film
which Is being produced called, was
He Coward -
Accidentally Fell goo Feet.
Once had to climb a telegraph
pole and drop down to the roof Of 4
passing train Don't think they Sow
ed that train up for me. The FIRST
time / tried II. ] lost my footiaold. /
bit the foof Of ne car and bounced
on the side into lucky pile OF soft
cinders along the road bed. The sec
ond time the same thing nearly hap
pened again. and Isjust. managed 10
keep mg grip by ramming my fingers
into the tiny sentilators which ran
along the side Of the roof
Later ] had to jump from the same
train into the Rzritan river. a. We
passed over . trestle. Another time
:. movie detective and La supposed
thiet-were struggling alons an en-
bankment IN Q desperate catch-as-
Icatch-can.E The embankment. to tell
the truth. IS part Of Riverside park a.
about 18TH street However. just as
pected death blow my foot acciden-
tally slipped and went down back
ward Well, rolled over ana over
LOT 2 couple OF hundred feet-there
was NO stopping on q grade Ike that
and ! landed In O group Of boulders
ct the bottom. But when I woke M /
hadn't hurt anything but my hands.
They were Just bit torn.
l OS course, have my little theory
Of muscular control. and that any
man could do the very same stunts
inst am doing II only he could keen
control OF his limbs. But I'm ready
TO admit that there's 4 good deal Of
dare devil luck in II, TOO. I do take
some idiotic chances. Once / slid
across from one tenement to anothn
on q thin Slip Of q hemp c1othasjfne:
am Just now considering an offer 10
sNde down the Wo0lworth buiidins
on rope. It's Just 4 matter Of food
iluck-and smiling. AID IN keep on
with the luck and the grIns and the
dare deyN stunts until I'm old and
gray and rheumatic. That Is. I think
Bdt my wife she thinks diHerent-