Show DEATH LURE IN NIAGARA PERILS LIBERTIES MANY HAVE TAKEN TORRENTS IN WITH RAGING RECENT YEARS SOME ESCAPE OTHERS DIE r Boat Race Now Planned In Defiance of Danger by Fifteen Adventurers Adventur-ers Who Seek Prize of 1000 Buffalo N Y Persons with prnc the tical minds seem bent on stripping cataract of Niagara Its rapids and the whirlpool of some of tho attributes will bE There always they have had people who will regard as fact the who maidens sacrifice story of tho will persist In believing that It was a tribes yearly custom of the Indian living In tho vicinity of the falls to sacrifice the prettiest maidens of the god that was their tribes to I Niagara But within the last ten or fifteen years many things have occur oc-cur cd at Niagara to dissipate the romance of the cataract Something of a shock was felt when the engineers got busy and drove part of the river Into factories to turn wheels People had said It could note > not-e done and when It was done the awe Niagara Inspired was a bit less ened Bossy Slmms was a mere cow a Durham to judge by her picture Her i owner was superintendent of the Inclined In-clined railway In Prospect park before be-fore the das of free Niagara and t lived within reach of the spray from the falls Bossy came to the parkas park-as a calf Untrammeled with tho prejudices of ordinary visitors she went to the river as to a trout stream Frequently In summer time she went to wade In the river from near Prorpect point with no thought of danger and to slake her thirst greatly great-ly to the amazement of people that gathered In the park This was about 1860 But she had an Imitator In the person per-son of Amos Schweitzer shoemaker of Toronto Ont who on Juno 6 1906 made a perfect show of the cataract For fully fortyfive minutes he stood in the stream some twenty feet from the brink and thirtyfive feet out from Prospect point his hat cocked over his ear and a cano In his hands this between 130 and 215 a m with the tremendous beauty of Niagara set forth under a dazzling moon Then there was Mrs Anna Edson Taylor who successfully made a trip over the Horseshoe fall In a barrel Pretty much the same liberties havo been taken with the rapids and tho whirlpool Doubtless many Indians attempted the rapids trip In canoes and doubtless all went to their death tll I I i fl ty f l I l e F e Many Indians Attempted the Rapids in tho journey So there came from their people extravagant tales of Its terrors But In 1861 the romances received a severe Jolt when the Maid of the Mist n tub of a vessel went careening careen-ing down the stream finm the foot of tho falls to Lake Ontario with Joel Robinson at the wheel to escape levy suffering no Injury except the loss of her smokestack which was kicked off by a wave Somo ton years after the first bar rat fleet bad sailed through a second fleet camo down the rIver Of the score that entered for honors only one was killed a oman who was suffocated 111 her barrel In the whirlpool whirl-pool through slow work on the part of her supporters on shore The coming summer promises unusual un-usual thing In Niagara feats There has boon offered a purse of 1000 and a 500 trophy for a motor boat race through the rapids the whirlpool and down to Lewiston where the river broadens to a calm commercial stream Fifteen adventurers have an nouncod their Intention of trying for fame and fortune in the race There wont bo anything loft to do pretty soon but swim up the falls Bald old Tom Dillon the dean of hack men when told of the projected taco |