Show LURE IN mm NIAGARA PERIS PERILS MANY HAVE TAKEN LIBERTIES WITH RACING RAGING TORRENTS IN YEARS SOME ESCAPE OTHERS DIE boat race now planned in De defiance flance of dancer by fifteen adventure Ad ventur ers who seek prize of duffalo buffalo V 7 persons with ith krnc pro minds winds sean bent on ming K tin the cataract of niagara Us its and the whirlpool of some of the attribute attributes have bad had there always will be people who will regard as fact the story of the maiden a sacrifice who will persist tn in believing that it was a yearly custom of the indian tribes ming II 11 ing in the vicinity of the falls to sacrifice the prettiest maidens of their tribes to the god that aa was niagara thit within the last ten or of fifteen years many things have oc cured 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 w wheels heels people bad had said it could not be done dome and when it was done the awe awo niagara inspired was a bit lessened hossy simms was a mere cow a durham to judge by her picture her owner was superintendent of the in dined railway in prospect park before the days of free niagara and lived within reach of the spray from the falls nosey bossy came to the park as a calf untrammeled with the 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 prospect point with no thought of danger and to slake her thirst greatly to the amazement of people that gathered in the park thia this was about 1860 1890 but ehe she bad had an imitator in the person of amon schweitzer shoemaker of toronto ont who on june 6 1906 made a perfect show of the cataract for fully tally forty five live minutes he stood in n the stream some twenty feet from he the brink and thirty five feet out froni from prospect point his hat cocked over lie his ear and a cane in his hands bands this between and 0 2 15 a in with the tremendous beauty of niagara set met forth under a dazzling moon then thore was anna edson raylor taylor who successfully made a trip over the horseshoe fait fall in a barrel bael pretty much the same liberties have xen taken with the rapids and the many indians indian it the rapids trip in canoe ind and doubtless all vent went to their death f IN A VV 1 many indians attempted the rapids in the journey so there came from their people extravagant tales of its terror terrors hut but in 1861 the romances received a severe jolt when the maid laid of th the in mist mat a tub of a vessel went careen caree ing down the stream fim tho foot vt of the falls to baku ontario with joel robinson at the heel to escape levy suffering no injury except the loss of her smokestack which was kicked off by a wave some ten years after the first barrel fleet had sailed through a second fleet came down the river of the score that entered for honors only one waa was killed a woman who waa was suffocated in n her barrel in the whirlpool through low slow work arlt on the part of her supporters on shore the coming summer promises unusual things in niagara lagara feats there has ha been offered a purse of 1000 and a trophy for a motor boat race through the rapid rapids the whirlpool and down to lewiston Le here the river broadens to a calm commercial stream fifteen adventurers have an bounced their Ir intention of trying for fame ata torture la in the race there won i be anything left to do pretty soon aut ut swim up the falla falls said old coir dillon the dean of back men when old told of the projected rece race the cigarette smoking girl girt of avet vet ibl chos up in ira a bachelors pipe dreams |