Show SHOOTS NIAGARA RAPIDS birkl L A had carlisle grab am makes ahls fifth UN n journey down river Is halt sufi located too much drifting at start comes near proving baital takes enree quartets of hour chere it should occupy fifteen minutes carlisle D graham made his fifth journey uhe of niagara river this afternoon in the same which he used in his last trip twelve years ago he almost suffocated from being confined in the barrel tor thirty five minutes graham got in the barrel at at the old landing place of the steamer maid of the mist the barrel had been standing in the sun all day inviting inspection toy the thousands who had carue to the falls to see the feat and it was hot and uncomfortable for table when graham entered it the barrel Is barely large enough to hold graham strapped in an upright position and the only air hole is a tiny one in the top the diameter of a mans finger the who took graham and his out for the start were afraid of going too far for their own safety and consequently did not put it in mid stream it drifted down as tar as the cantilever bridge and then was caught in an eddy which took it halt way back to the starting place it held in this eddy just twenty minutes and graham was rapidly growing exhausted from the heat and lack of air he was tempted he said afterwards to open the hole through which air catered but did not know just where he was in his journey finally talie barrel got in the middle of the stream and struck tho white capped rapids graham then opened the little hole in the top of the barrel and some of the cold water splashing in helped to revive him his trip was then reaching the exciting stage once in the rapids the passage was swift it was three and a halt minutes from the time the barrel struck the rapids until it floated i into the whirlpool the barrel was in sight of the many thousand spectators all the time except when waves washed over it four swimmers were an ane water feet from the shore at the terminus of the voyage captain billy johnson of the lifesaving life saving guards at coney island I bossed the job the barrel was not carried into tha dizzy maze of the whirlpool but striking it reached the hands of the swimmers this did not cloase some young fellows in the water who wanted to see the barrel spin and one of them jumped on the barrel shoving it under water and trying to send it toward the whirlpool he was chased away and graham was towed ashore and released he was found to be in a partially suffocated condition and was so exhausted that he had to be fanned halt an hour before he could tell his story his bruises were few graham says the principal discomfort of the journey is the lack of air he tor his feat the money being subscribed iby business men who profited by the crowd it at tracked it Is eleven years since anybody was through the whirlpool of niagara in a barrel and as it was this style of craft that was first to bravo the rapids after the webb fatality unusual interest centered in the trip announced he would make today between 1888 ana 1889 there were several who voyaged through the rapids in barrels and i boats tout tor ithe last ten years those who sought to attain notoriety and fame by this water route chiave not been plentiful graham has always bees recognized as the ibero of niagara for it was be who did that which was practically impossible to go through the waters of the niagara gorge and live to tell ithe story in his deeds at niagara graham won the reputation of never disappointing an when he stated he would make a trip today people turned out in great numbers they flocked to tho they lined the cliff tops and they filled itsie trolley cars of the canadian scenic line all beat on seeing this cooper risk his life in a barrel of his own making the day was frightfully bet but the thousands stood the intense heat patiently for hours never in the history of these rapid voyages have so many countries been represented in the gathered crowd the pan american exposition contributing its full quota to the sightseeing sight seeing numbers graham had announced that he would start at 3 and the big majority were on hand at that hour his starting point was from the manre place that graham had started on his previous trip it was when he crowded himself through she manhole into the barrel A small rowboat was in waiting and at the barrel with its human freight was beang towed out into the river the oars mens fear of being sucked into the rapids gave graham an experience which he will long remember much sympathy was expressed tor ahlm toy watchers and it was a general relief when at ills barrel swung all into the river current and a minute later was riding the first wave of the rapids the course of itne barrel was along the new york aide of the crested waves in the center while on previous trips it had clung to the canadian currents frequently the barrel sank out of sight in the waters and once or twice it was apparently long in returning to the top but seconds were hours in the estimation of the people for the fact is it took graham only three minutes to reach the whirlpool in approaching he pool ithe barrel swung into the canadian current but once in the river pocket it followed the current straight across the center the current hot it well toward the shore where fully person were gathered to help rescue the barler and its occupant chicago inter |