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THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930.

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THE CHINA

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NIAGARA FOR DEATH-Niagara is a great place for

OR NOTORIETY.

Braving Famous Torrent

in Barrels..

CENTURY OF SENSATIONS.

The Niagara Falls have claimed another victim, a chef who called himself a Greek philosopher.

A

Why a philosopher, or éven chef. should have wanted to go over Niagara. In a barrel, passes comprehension. This, and all other feats of foolhardiness, have been literally "done to death" in and over the famous falls and rapids.

More than 30 years ago, there was #perfect fover for shooting the rapids and whirlpool in oak barrels and barrels of steel,

Dozens of adventurers came safely through the ordeal, and many, others were hauled out of the water far below the falls, either maimed or dend.

The pioneer of this special sort of madness was a man named Sam

Patch, who, in 1829, dived into the Niagara River below the falls from a height of 97 feet. Twice he per- formed this fent; but when he tried to repeat it a third time, he was killed.

sensations. Blondin electrifled the elvilised world when he first cross- ed the falls on a tightrope in 1855. He repeated the performance over

and over again in 1859 and 1860.

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

The following programme will One of his fents was to lower a cord be broadcast to-day from the to the old Maid of the Mist in the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station water below and draw up a bottle Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 255 of liquid refreshment. On another occasion he cooked an omelet in mid- air and lowered it to the Maid of the Mist for consumption.

As early as 1864, Blondin had his Imitators at Niagara.. Farini was the first, and there have since boen dozens of others.

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Opening Daily Official Quotations 21st August, 1939.

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Banks.

6 p.m.-Aunty Pat, Uncle Jeff Hong Kong Bank $ and Uncle Dick will try to enter-Mercantile Bk., A&.

Chartered Bank

tain the Kladies.

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"Rienzi"--Closing Scene,

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China Unustwriter.}} China Fire Ins....$400 H. K. Fire Ins. $2

Shipping. Douglases

6.30 pm-European Programme Bank of Asia......3 of Victor and H.M.V. Records

Laurances. In 1887, Stephen Peere was selected and supplied by Messrs.

Canton Ins.. "killed, and left wire cable Moutrie & Co.

the across

falis, which

Union - Inz. subsequently

was "Rienzi"—Overture (Wagner), used by D suc-

Philadelphia Symphony cession of gymnasts.

Orchestra (8824). A man, named McDonnel even rivalled the

Philadelphia Symphony immortal Blondin by crossing the

Orchestra (1025). rope with his feet in baskets, and "The Garden of Allah" (Marshall), by hanging from it.head-down-"Stars of the East" (Lohr), wards.

Peter Dawson, Bass Baritone (C168DY. "Ziegfeld Follles Medley" (Berlin), H. K. Steamboatá

Indo-China (Pref.) ....$ (Del.) ...$ Shell Transport... Union Waterbeau ...

A later adventurer. rode across on an inverted bicycle hanging from the rope; and Samuel J. Dixon, a Toronto photographer, performed amazing feats, which were not ex- called even by that "world's cham- pien," Charles Calverley, when he first crossed Niagara forty years after Blondin.

among

An Amy Johnson. The Amy Johnson Niagara tightrope walkers Wns Signorina Maria Spolterini, who not only gat safely across time after time, but even did the journey with her fact in baskets, As a contemporary writer observ- ed, "she established the fact that woman is as level-headed as a man." Amy Johnson has but re-established

The barrel fever was a disease of much later date. It probably had it. ita origin in the well-remembered

Three

a

was

tragedy of Captain Webb, the fam ous English swimmer, who lost when trying to swim the rapids in 1883.

D. Graham,

years later, Carlisle Philadelphia copper, announced that he had constructed a barrel in which he would navigate the rapids and whirlpool. It is 44 years now since the intrepid Graham Was Iaunched on the rapids in his strange craft. which carried him safely the full length of the roaring Niagara Gorge Four times did Graham vainly court

death in this fashion. On one trip, he was accompanied by two other men. Potts and Hazlitt, both coopers; and

Boon

afterwards Potts and Miss Sadie Allen got into a barrel together and made the perilous journey safely.

Farmer Barrel Tragedy. Graham's last barrel voyage was performed in 1901, and one of its unfortunate results way to stimulate the ambition of Miss Moud Willard to 'make a similar trip alone. Graham obligingly lent his barrel, and it was arrang- ed that he should swim from the whirlpool to Lewiston- feat naver before performed-while she drift- ed down the rapids.

In every previous case, barrels cast into the rapids, had been re- covered below within about an hour.

TOURIST TRAFFIC.

STEADY INCREASE IN VISITORS TO BRITAIN.

per

In four years 1326-29, foreign visitors to the United Kingdom have increased by 38

cent, from 172,760 to 238,391,

In the grand total of 457,414 foreigners landed during 1929 visitors on holiday and tourists number 238,391

business visitors 93,013, the increases being 13,576 and 1.480 respectively.

and

United States visitors again pro- vided the bulk of tourists, and numbered 102,455, as compared with 101,851 in 1928. tourist visitors Included:

French

German

Dutch

Italian

Scandinavian.... 11,455 The number of French visitors in all classes, residents returning, business men, and others, was 66,202, a number which contrasts strongly with the latest available comparative figures issued by the French Government, from which it appears that 880,515 British sub- jecta visited or passed through France during the same period.

Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra (35846),

"Jocelyn-Berceuse" (Godard), "Evening Song" (Schumann),

Pablo Casals, Piano Sele (6030). "Dreams of Schubert--Medley Waltz,

Hungarian Rhapsody Orchestra (35921). "Mighty Lak a Rose" (Nevin). "Just Keepin' Oď'' (Phillips),

Paul Robeson, Bass (3199). "Reminiscences of Scotland"

(Godfrey)Th

The Band of H.M. Royal

Air Force (1230).. "Because" (D'Hardelot), "The Gentle Maiden" (Somercell),

Walter Glynne, Tenor "Martha"-Solection (Flotaw),

(B3210),

The Band of H.. Cold- stream Guards_(C1453), "Early Rag-Time Memories",

Jack Hylton and His Orchestra (C1853). "The Daughter of the Regiment".

(Donizetti). +

The La Scala Orchestra, Milan (C1054). 8 p.m.-Chinese Studio Concert. 9 p.m.-Weather Report. - Chinese Programme continued. 10.30 p.m.-Close Down.

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In this instance, however, SHIELDING A WOMAN

the hapless woman enclosed in Graham's barrel (with her dog for company) was adrift for more than Ave hours. When at last the barrel was landed, she was dead, although the dog still lived.

this On the very day before melancholy affair.. Miss Martha Wagenfluhrer had earned the dis- tinction of being the first woman to shoot the rapidsvin a barrel alone.

Anna Edson Taylor seems to have been the first woman, if not the first human being, to go over the Horseshoe Falls In a barrel and escape with her life.

She per- formed the feat only about six Willard. weeks after, the tragedy of Miss

Two years earlier, Steve Brodle had done perhaps Talamba

an even inore extraordinary thing by going over Parecis....Aug. 23, 12.30 p.m

the falls in an indiarubber suit, re- Letters

.....1.80 p.minforced by steel. bands. He was brought ashore battered and in- sensible, but survived and became Bobble Leach's trip over the falla a notable New York publican.

in a steel barrel is a much more recent event; and it is only two years since Jean Laussier. followed the same course lo an enormous rubber ball.

Protesliaus

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MARRIED MOTORIST HIDES COMPANION'S NAME.

A married man who accepted, the blame for a motor-car accident rather than divulge the name of his the car, faced a charge of homicido woman companion, who was driving by misadventure in a Paris court.

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BRINGING UP FATHER

Intervening in the puzzling situs- tion, defending counsel submfited that he was acting out of gallantry

entered against him. The man then and that no conviction could be

admitted that he accepted the blamo because he thought that by that means he would not need to divulge the name of his companion: The jury acquitted him..

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YM GONNA HAVE A HARD

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OP A SCHEME:

LA-LA DE-DA-

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AN IDEA!

MAGGIE HERE.

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