Identifier: streetrailwayrev07amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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spot on which thegorge road car barns now stand in what is known as theold Pleasure Ground. His first trip was made June 30,1S5C), and, being a success, won for him much fame. Ini860 Blondin erected his cable farther down stream over theWhirpool Rapids, just north of where the new steel arch nowspans the gorge. He walked this rope with stilts, withbaskets on his feet, blindfolded, and also carried a manacross on his back. This man was Harry Colcord. Blondinalso took a small stove out on the cable and cooked there.His performances drew great crowds. His wheelbarrowact was especially commended. It was in iS6othat Blondincrossed the gorge before the Prince of Wales. The princeand parly were located in a shelter at the Canadian end ofthe cable, and in order to heighten the effect, Blondin put ina few e.xtra feats. VVlnen Blondin was presented to theprince his royal highness saiil, Thank God it is all over.To this Blondin replied by offering to carry the prince (;>tJ^i%uUvai;^vlcW* 639
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GRAHAM AND HIS BARREL. across the rope blindfolded, but the prince declined theinvitation. On November 2y, 1S95, Blondin marriedCatherine James in the Brantford, Eng., registry office.He has since died, but the story of his wonderful perform-ance at -Niagara still lasts. Collections and an entrance feeto an enclosure at either end of his rope is what paid Blondinfor his performance. The tirsl man to attempt to win fame li\ a tri)) lliriiu;^hthe Whirlpool Kajjids was when Joel K. Kobinson and histwo associates, Mclnlyre and Jones, voluntarily made thetrip on the steamer Maid of the Mist, June 6, i8(ji.Next came Capt. Matthew Wcbb, the famous Englishswimmer, who lost his life in an attempt made July 24, 1SS3.Webbs only protection was a bathing suit. Three yearslater Carlisle D. Graham, a cooper, made the trip success-fully in a barrel of his own make on July 11, 1SS6.Grahams feat made him a hero, and he is justly entitled tocredit for his act. L ndaunted by the perils of the fiercewater

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