| Show BLONDIN OUTDONE A ropewalk ROPE bore WALK EB IN OIL CITY on the fourth of july the residents of oil city pennsylvania and surrounding country witnessed messed the accomplished feat of walking across the alleghany allegheny Alleg hany river on the cable of lays ferry an inch in diameter the performer of this feat was mr J T B alien allen whole vrho ie understood to haye have had no previous practice or experience and is only an amateur in the wire walking business the wire used on the occasion was 1000 feet long and was suspended at a hight bight of eighty feet above the surface of the tile river mr aliens allens apparatus consisted of a flagstaff set into a piece of ordinary gas pipe surmounted b by a an n eight fc foot nag ag tills tilis this st staff stamm aff was about about thirteen feet above and nine feet below tho the wire to the end of this was a balance weight of seven and ard three qi quarters barters lar pounds this staff was run upon the top of the wire by means of a pulley wheel not fastened in any means to tile the wire and was drawn over by the walker the large aroi crowd that had a assembled to witness the performance lined the tile bank banks s of both sides of the river about four mr alien allen got upon the rope on the latonia latoni a side of the tile river and proceeded on his perilous arilous journey which ho he accomplishes accomplished in safety in much uch to the satisfaction of the spectators As usual 1 in such cases a number of bets bafs were made fiade and large amounts eli ell changed canoed hands mr alien allen relied entirely upon the generosity of the tile spectators dor tor remuneration mune ration and upon a collection being taken up was contributed thill which ich ieh was h handed an ded over to him |
