Show STEVE B OlE BRIDGE JUMPER AND I 0 rB Ti W RY BOY tY DIES OP UP CONS CONSUMPTION M t ON I San Baa Antonio lonio Tex Jan 31 Stee Brodle BrodIe te tie bridge jumper and sporting maw of New Ne York Y die dl here tonight to l ht of oft ou t eve ve Brodies fame rests upon his exploit in jumping from the Brooklyn bridge There are these use who claim that he Be never did Ad ft st Jus juet Jusis fes there are those who discredit the legend of William WilIlam Tell He wee was fished hed ft out of the lOft I on o July 38 1506 1116 and ad taken to the th Oak street pollee police station in company eo n with wUk I vera several who that tk they had seen lee aee aim lM Im through the tile air From that day Ms lila fortune was made ma e Brodie Brodle was U born in New York City hi 10 m iNi His parents were poor He Be made MUle a scanty living b J selling news nels newspapers newspapers papers In lit his early days he lie took good goodre care re of his Iris widowed mother He left home on account of or a a tight light he had bad with w th his hili eider ejder e r brothers who wiio had spent money mODeY he intended for his parent All AU through his career he sent money mone to his mother mether He Heb became came manager of ot hazIng boxing matches planned phin ed a filibustering expedition and turned dollars here and there by taking part in walking matches He swam from Albany Alban to toN Nw N York He emulated S Sam Stirn m Patch by leaping over the Genesee falls He jumped from the bridge in land leaped leaned the following year over and Pawtucket fans falls He went into training fera fora leap over Ni Niagara NIagara agara disappeared for a day and told a 8 thrilling tale of his journey through the rapids Nobody Nob dy believed his story stor but that fact never disturbed his good na nature nature ture lure Brodie Brodle never neer lost an opportunity to bring himself into prominence His first Ont wife died and left him three chil children children dren dreA His see second wife was wan s Gertrude I 1 Lord who belonged to a good pod family I 1 m to Albany He eloped elo eA with her under circumstances which attracted atten stIes attention attention tion all over the country Her family started to prosecute Um for tor abduction and finally consented to a marriage marria e eThe The union we woe a happy y one oDe and it was largely through her economy nom and good I It management that he accumulated a fortune t une became the king of Ot the Bow Bo Bon cry erv n His saloon Joon with and aDd ceiling hung with photographs b became ame anae one of the show places of the city It wax W frequented by nfl all kinds kIat and conditions of men Brodie gave away umbrellas to shop glue girls fed the t th flowery Bowery lodgers buttermilk on Raines law Sundays and end did a thousand and one thinES things which brought broll ht him and money He lie even welcomed d an oc or occasional raid by Anthony Athony i I He made a tour of 01 Europe where he be was entertained by the sporting fra fcc fraternity fraternity He appeared on ott the stage ta e first as a 8 bridge Jumper in Money MAd Mud He had no lines lillee Six years ago he be begaii starring in On the Bowery which was highly successful fuL He Be drew large crowds crows wherever he went 1 I He invested hie money judiciously and at the time of his death owned two Harlem flats besides l es the handsome hand house heuse in which he lived when at thome home j Brodie Brodle visited Salt S t Lake a few years ears 1 ago He put up at the I wore a loud checked suit and starred I I through Commercial street losing a afew afew afew few dollars on a a faro am game |