Show Will Attempt to Ride Rapids in ill Motor Boat t 1 fr 1 i r 1 l e I u I r II J 9 2 t a 4 I a 1 W J L ROSE EOSE OF OP DETROIT MICHIGAN Who will attempt to navigate the Whirlpool Rapids at Niagara Falls in a motor boat view of the dangerous course over which he plans to travel and a picture of the motor boat in which he will attempt to make the journey jo ey SOME OF THE VICTIMS AND CONQUERORS OF THE RAPIDS s Robinson McIntyre and arid Jones made the first known trip through the rapids in a small steamer in 1861 t Captain Matthew Webb the famous English swimmer paid his lire life as the penalty for his hia folly 1 in attempting to swim the rapids in 1883 Carlisle D Graham has gone through the rapids five times In a barrel and In 1901 swam the thet perilous courses with the aid of life Ufe preservers t William J Kendall swam the rapids In 1886 C Alexander Percy made two trips in a boat the first in 18 1887 7 George Hazlitt and Sadie Allen made the trip in a barrel In 1886 t Robert W Flack attempted the trip In a boat but drowned In 1889 Walter G Campbell had a thrilling experience which almost cost him his life Ufe In covering the course In a boat in 1889 i F M Bowser covered the course In a boat in 1900 Peter Nisson covered the course in a steamboat In 1901 C A Percy made the third trip in a boat in 1902 Miss Maud Willard went through the rapids in a barrel but was caught in the whirlpool and andi whirled l around aro for six si hours r She died I shortly t after ft being eI rescued from the barrel This I hap happened happened t e in 1902 Mrs Anna Taylor is the only person perron who has ever gone over the falls taIls and lived to tell the tale i She accomplished this feat in 1901 when she went over the Horseshoe falls in a barrel 6 6 II t t t t Detroit Mich March 3 The tragic I lure of Niagara has attracted another I adventurer W J Rose aged 21 of I this city who will attempt to ride the treacherous and turbulent rapids in a motor boat in the early part of July This feat teat has been successfully ac accomplished accomplished accomplished a number of ot times Umes in bar barrels barrels barrels and boats and a few of the more daring flaring have swam it with the aid of ot life Ilfe preservers But it has more often resulted In the death of the conqueror Rose however his hs h s had an excellent marine training and has shot a num number number number ber of rapids throughout the country The boat in which he will attempt his forthcoming trip is feet long and Is driven by bv a power engine The boat will not be befitted befitted befitted fitted with air chambers or otner non sinkable apparatus as Rose thinks his knowledge of navigation will wUI en enable enable enable able him to guide the boat over the route without Its turning over The journey will begin at the foot toot of the falls and end at Lewiston a dis die distance distance tance of ot six miles and he expects to 10 negotiate the distance in ten minutes |