Show lI p LIFES HOPES SHATTERED Another Hodern Darius Green Comes to Grief New York July 1 Patrick Cook I went to High Bridge and confidently expected to fly from there to the battery bat-tery But as he was preparing to start I he slipped and fell and it was a miracle that he escaped falling to the piles of rocks on the new speedway 100 feet below He caught at the ropes hung head downward for half an hour r CO feet below the bridge rail and was with difficulty raised Cook is 35 years of age and until recently a stone cutter Now he is employed as a gateman on I the elevated road He began upon his flIng machine when but 19 years of age and since then the subject ha I never been absent from his thoughts I Recently he came to the conclusion that his sixteen years of labor had dh fs I ended in success With his own hands he had built a parachute of oiled canvass can-vass and steel ribs and strong cords and he took a week from his work to give it the necessary finishing touches Accompanied by a man whom he had hired to help him he started for High Bridge The parachute was fastened that was to i to the aqueduct by a rope be loosened by a jerk when Cook was in position Policemen nearby suddenly heard frantic cries for help They found that Cook had lost his footing and was hanging helpless in a tangle of ropes 20 feet below them He was taken to the police station and locked up and later arraigned and dismissed with a warning |