New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-24
Bird MiIlrrlan
A Live Wire
In Cloudbul1,st
Aerial Performer Needed
II Her Nerve in the
Recent Flood i'm Pueblo

aood to keep Bird Millnan away
rom saving her new wire and her
! chickens.
Early this summer Miss MiIlman
4 ,,:t New York to spend her vacation
ca her ranch, Takitezy, twenty miles
RON Pueblo. Col. Things went alone
so pleasantly at the ranch that she
looked forward TO q rather uneventfuf
sumner. She brought with her to
Tssitezy new wire which she had
specially made for her use in the
Greenwich Village Follies, 1921.
Hiss Millman was very proud of this
sire, and SO as properly to condition
I and test it she had it stretched from
lie second floor window of the ranch
house to the smoke house. She did not
spend all her time practicing on her
u.re, as she is raising chickens on
Der ranch and hopes to win some first
orizes at the next poultry show.
1 One pleasant morning this summer
Mss Millman thought little trip to
Pueblo would be a pleasant diversion.
Sac left the ranch and spent most of
tie day in Pueblo, but toward noon the
sly became overcast and Miss Millman
thought it best to drive her machine
home. She Is careful young lady
and could see no occasion for drench-
ing her automobile.
Wire Walker Needs
III of Her Nerve
After she had driven a few miles
rom Pueblo rain began falling fast,
and it kept increasing until she knew
was cloudburst. A young person
who has walked dizzy heights on
wire was not going to be frightened
By cloudburst. Miss Millman's
nerves are not the kind to get upset
easily.
Driving became more difficult as the
reads flooded and the rain, instead of
dating, came on with greater fury.
1t wasn't the rain that worried Miss
Allman, and she had even forgotten
l5oat her new auto, because she re-
rendered her new wire was out in the
Jury of the storm, and while she could
greck her machine, nothing must hap
zen TO the wire.
Then there was another thing. Four
aandred little chickens were outside
ne ranch house in coops and she didn't
gant 10 lose one little chicken. The fact
nat they were chickens of high degree
Ess not the thing that worried her.
L they had been just ordinary chickens
without distinguished ancestry, Miss
Ailnan would have felt just as bad.
She drove within mile and a half
ot the ranch, but could go no further
because the bridge over the river had
feen swept away. 1t was a flood with
evidently a kindly side, because there
vas one iron girder left. Miss Mill
nan abandoned her machine and did
one Of the most sensational aerial
acts Of her life, when she crossed the
angry stream walking the one lone
order. After she got across walking
Vas more difficult 1t wasn't at all
BAD on the girder, but now she had
mud up to her knees.
Saves Her Chicks
and Precious Wire
When she reached the ranch the
young lady resembled the dainty Bird
Aiilman IN no possible way. Appear
anees, however, did not count, as her
walk had not been any fashion prone
Aade. 1t took her some time, but every
chick was saved and carried up to the
second story of the ranch house. Then
she rescued her wire; and she SAYS if
she ever fell off the wire as many
ames as she fell while getting it from
me smokehouse to the ranchhouse.
mre walking would not be the interest
ing thing she finds it.
! felt very happy with the wire
and the chickens saved" Miss Millman
says, but the food was no respecter
q the preserves 1 had put up. 1t just
swept out ali the fruit had put I'D
ana left my larder without delicacy
u any kind. Fortunately, the smoke
'Ouse on the ranch, being made out of
None and on high ground, kept the
Asms and other provisions stored there
safe"
MISS Miilman and her grandparents,
VINO were living with her at Takitezy,
eamped out on the second floor for
more than a week While the food
Eau quickly subsidized, it left things
around the ranch in moist condition,
and communication with the outside
world was interrupted for days.
Miss Millman is now here in New
'ork with her new wire and will be
zee seen IN the Greenwich Village Fol-
''es IN new act which has been de-
used for her by John Murray
anderson.