Wirth's Mammoth Show

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 781, 25 March 1905, Page 2

Wirth's Mammoth Show

' The accounts which have appeared in tho Sydney press concerning Wirths' circus which will soon be amongst lis, are highly eulogistic, but the elements of sensation which have been introduced are of such a nerve-staggering character that only superlatives could lie found to describe thorn 1 . And if Chefulo does what he is said to have accomplished in the liueen City of the Soutl the descriptive extravagance that has been employed' haw not been altogether misapplied. For this is unquestionably a leal of unparalleled durf ing to see a man, mounted on n - bicycle, dash down an incline of toft r and at the end to lie thrown by the i impetus high into the air and across 0 a ehusm of over 40(1 on to an in--1 cline from which, the moment he I lands he is shot with Ughtningrliki . rapidity towards the dressingt-tent, I Hut ii this feat is hV'wWder.ing Iu its i daring, that which concludes the rir- . cus bill, is more astonishing still. , This great, a"t is mauagerjally refer- , red to as '• Kdlpatrick's Death Trap." It is par excellence the most surprising of all sensations. Chel'alo, dressed in Mephistophelian ; attire, mounts an incline 50ft in ' height, and having seated himself upon his bicycle, at a gSven word ' shoots away from his base, and loops a framework 2."u't in height • As lie enters the loop, and is wet'! in the curve ol lus thrilling journev 1 the front wheel of his machine at a given spot, and on the instant—for loss of time is a matter of death—- ' releases the bottom part o! the structure, which is lixed after the manner of a ride-de-coch horse, and ore ho is thrown round the other end ol it jpins with tile permanent structure, and so conducts him on his intented (light !„ terra lirmn.' It eclipses anything that has been soen this side of the line.