Wirth s Mammoth Show.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 12817, 27 March 1905, Page 6

Wirth s Mammoth Show.

! The accounts which have appeared i in the Sydney press of ail that is to ; be seen at this enticing show, and ; which will soon be amongst us, arc V highly eulogistic. It is unquestionably a feat of unparalleled daring to see a j man, mounted on a bicycle, dash down an incline of about 40ft, and at ihe end to be thrown by the impetus ' high into the air and across a chasm 5 of over 40ft ou to an incline from which, the moment he laads, he is shot with lightning-like rapidity towards the drosying-ti-nt. This is what (.'hefalo does. But if this feat is bc•^ildering in its daring, that which concludes the circus bill is more aslotushing still. Chcfalo mounts an incline 50ft in height, and haying; seated himself upon his bicycle, at a given 3 word shoots away from his base, aud l} loops a framework 25ft in height. As 3 ho enters the loop, and is Avell in the > curve of his .thrilling journey, the front i wheel of his machine at a given spot, i and on the instant —for loss of time is j a matter of doatlv—-releases tho bot- ] 10m part of the structure, which is . iixed after' the manner of a ride-dc-j i-och horse, and ere he is thrown round s the other end of it joins with the per- ' maneni structure, and so conducts him on his intended (light to terra iirma. Then there is Colquette, a Lancanshire 'man, who jumps with such ' ease and evpertnoss, that his equal ' has never been seen. He is accurately ■ described as "Tim Modern Spring-heel-t .(I -Jjick,'' aud the charm of the per- ■ lonnanee is tindisputably its apparent - > ini'plicity. ►