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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f57f44 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text +*.htm text +*.html text +*.png binary +*.jpg binary +*.svg text +*.pdf binary +*.bmp binary +*.zip binary +*.midi binary +*.mp3 binary diff --git a/78938-0.txt b/78938-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..680c2b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/78938-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,541 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78938 *** + + + + + OVER THE FALLS + + ANNIE EDSON TAYLOR’S + STORY OF HER + LIFE + + HOW THE HORSESHOE FALL WAS CONQUERED + + [Illustration] + + Copyright July 15, 1902, by Annie Edson Taylor + + Published by + Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor + June, 190 + + [Illustration: The lines on this photo show the direction Mrs. Taylor + and her barrel took on her frightful plunge over the Horseshoe.] + + + + + Preface + + +Despite the thrilling nature of the story of which this book is +designed to be an accurate record, no attempt has been made to +embellish it with sensational statements. It is a plain recital of +fact. Annie Edson Taylor is the only human being who has ever gone over +the Falls of Niagara and lived to tell the story of her experience. +Even in its plain way, this little book has the distinguishing feature +of being a story thoroughly original; a story which no other one of +the million of people on this earth can truthfully tell as Annie Edson +Taylor has told it. + +In the face of her wonderful accomplishment of having conquered the +greatest waterfall in existence, Mrs. Taylor is not unmindful of the +history of Niagara, and so it is her wish that this book be dedicated +to the memory of the Indian maidens whose lives were sacrificed, as the +legends of old tell us, in the days gone by, when it was the custom of +the tribes to offer up their fairest daughters to the Great Spirit. As +the world has progressed science and invention have demonstrated where +mistakes were made in many fields, and it remained for Mrs. Taylor to +show that the mistake of the Indian maidens was in trying to conquer +Niagara in birch bark canoes instead of in barrels of Kentucky oak. We +live to learn. + + + + + Niagara’s Voyagers + + +Ever since the early part of the nineteenth century Niagara has been +the scene of perilous feats. Perhaps the earliest of these performances +was the leap of Sam Patch in 1829. From that time on, at various +intervals, men and women have journeyed to Niagara to win fame and +fortune by doing some deed they hoped would make them an unusual +attraction in the several fields they elected to enter to gain a living. + +The most popular feat at Niagara for many years was to voyage through +the Whirlpool Rapids in a boat or barrel or protected only by a life +preserver. Possibly the feat of Joel Robinson of June 6, 1861, set +the pace in this field of adventure. It was Robinson who piloted the +steamer Maid of the Mist through the marvelous Niagara canyon and its +rough waters to the more placid portion of the stream at Queenston. + +The intrepid Capt. Matthew Webb, a man who had successfully swam across +the English Channel, had the daring to try and pass through the wild, +tumultuous, tossing waters of the Whirlpool Rapids unprotected, but +instead of being a trip to fame, his was a trip to eternity. After +Webb came many others, and it was then that the barrel voyager of the +Niagara came into prominence. Protected by barrels several have made +trips through the Whirlpool Rapids and Whirlpool, in fact this voyage +long ago became lacking in interest. + +These circumstances and conditions led several to look about Niagara +in hopes of discovering some other route to golden fame. Of course, +there was the Falls, that stupendous downpour of water that drops +the overflow of Lake Erie to the stream that runs so swiftly on to +“Old Ontario.” The Falls of Niagara were there, and had been there +for centuries, but even the ambitious men and women who desired to +link their names forever with Niagara and its wonders, looked upon +it as too great a proposition for them to trifle with; they wanted +fame, they wanted dollars, but none of them sought death. And it was +written all about Niagara, on the tongues and faces of the oldest and +youngest residents, that whoever dare try and conquer this noble and +sublime Cataract would surely go down to the grave--a grave marked by a +monument bearing a statement of the occupant’s foolishness in presuming +to pass over the precipice of Niagara and live. + +When Annie Edson Taylor journeyed to Niagara and announced an +intention of going over the Falls, the announcement commanded but +little attention. Everybody looked upon it as a ridiculous ambition--a +foolish idea--and the knowing ones guessed that when she had studied +the chaotic nature of the waters in the three-quarter mile stretch of +rapids above the Horseshoe, she would quickly conclude that her home +was a more peaceful place in which to end her days. Nobody believed +that a woman would require but a glance at the awful plunge over the +Falls to convince her that death lurked in those waters, eager to +continue the unbroken record of fatalities on the list of those who had +involuntarily been caught in the suction of the upper rapids and swept +over the frightful brink into the chasm below. + +But Annie Edson Taylor lingered at Niagara. The date of her announced +trip arrived. The wind was too high to allow the boatmen to reach the +current necessary to escape the rocky reefs and to be swept over the +Horseshoe, and the world was amazed by the statement sent out from +Niagara that night that Annie Edson Taylor was still determined to +conquer the Horseshoe Fall of Niagara or die. It was then that the +people of the locality got serious on the matter. Previous to this time +there had been a vast amount of joking, all at Mrs. Taylor’s expense, +but this woman’s will was terribly set, and even the Coroner of Niagara +concluded that it was time for him to interfere in his official +capacity. + +On October 24, 1901, Annie Edson Taylor and her barrel were again taken +out on the Upper Niagara, and the story that follows tells that she +is the only person who has ever voluntarily made the frightful trip +through the Upper Rapids of the Niagara, plunged over the Horseshoe +Fall and floated on the foam-lashed, whirling waters of the Lower +Niagara. When it was announced that Mrs. Taylor had successfully made +the awful trip, the terrible drop into the gorge, the world was amazed, +but none more so than the people who had passed their lives close by +the Mighty Cataract, and who had come to believe that no human being +could pass over it and live. + +In the lines that follow Mrs. Taylor has herself told in a plain manner +the story of her life and her victory at Niagara. Her deed singles her +out from all the world, in that she has done what no other man or woman +ever before attempted. How she became impressed with the belief that +she could conquer Niagara is a mystery, but conquer it she did. + + + + + The Story of Her Life + + +[Illustration: Photo of Annie Edson Taylor standing next to her barrel.] + +Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor, born October 24, 1855, near Auburn, N. Y., on +the bank of Owasco Lake, the country seat of her father, Merrick Edson, +who was of English descent, born in Massachusetts. Her mother, Lucretia +Warren, was born in Albany, N. Y., and was connected with some of the +oldest and best families of that day. Merick Edson owned large milling +interests on Owasco River, which runs through the city of Auburn. In +winter the family lived in the city, in summer on the farm, where +little Annie went to the district school, and in winter to the city +school. She was of a dreamy, imaginative disposition, fond of out-door +sports and of books, especially those which run on adventures, such as +“Life in Australia,” historical novels, and at the age when most girls +were thinking of lovers, was reading Roman History and Plutarch’s lives. + +Merick Edson, her father, died when Annie was about 10 years of age. +From that time up to 14 life was uneventful. At that age she and two +older brothers were sent by their guardian to Charlottville, Schoharie +County, to a seminary for boys and girls. This was an excellent school, +discipline rigid, under the auspices of 24 selected teachers. There +friendships were formed which changed the current of Annie’s whole +life. Among the older girls was a Miss Jennie Taylor, a fine and +accomplished scholar, who was chosen as a room mate for Annie. + + + Married at Eighteen + +Later on she made the acquaintance of D. S. Taylor, who at the age of +18 became her husband. The marriage was blessed with one child, who +died in a few days. Her husband died in a little over two years. Then +it was that Annie realized the imperfections of her education and the +folly of a too early marriage. In a few months she entered the Normal +State School at Albany and became an indefatigable student, and at the +close of three years graduated, taking her vacation with a married +sister near Auburn. Among the many schoolmates to whom Annie became +attached were two lovely Southern girls, the Misses Kate and Mary +Kingsbury. The latter was of Annie’s age, and most intimate friend. +Annie was invited to spend a year at their Southern home. + +But, in the meantime, Miss Kate Kingsbury had contracted a most +brilliant marriage with her cousin, and had gone to the faraway city +of San Antonio, Texas. Annie concluded to go there for a year. After +much opposition from her family and friends, one stormy day in October, +1880, she took ship from New York for Cuba, and after a month’s stay +went from there to Galveston, and from Galveston by rail to Austin, +the capital; thence by stage through to San Antonio. After meeting +her friends, the Kingsburys, Annie took a position as teacher in the +High School. During vacation she went to New Mexico with a party of +officers and their families, taking the overland route, where Capt. +Nolan had a detail of soldiers guarding the building of railroads +in the Shasta Mountains, and where every day the lives of the party +were in jeopardy from Indians. On return to Texas, while rooming in +Kingsbury Street, one night was chloroformed and her room searched +for $3,000, which had been taken in for rents by Mrs. Taylor, who was +acting as agent for the Kingsburys (who at that time were away). + + + Held Up by Robbers + +On return North the stage was held up by a gang of robbers. In all, +$3,000 dollars was taken from the male passengers. Mrs. Taylor had $800 +concealed in the folds of her gown, on the robbers pressing a loaded +pistol to her temple and demanding the money she had, said, “Blow +away, I would as soon be without brains as without money.” They spared +her life. This occurred between San Antonio and Austin, in a forest. +After a year’s course in New York City, under the best instructors in +dancing and physical culture, Mrs. Taylor went to Asheville, N. C., and +immediately engaged in teaching those branches. + +Just previous to that time she was in Chattanooga, Tenn., where I +loaned $1,700 and it was lost in the boom in progress at that time, +she was also burned out, losing all her household goods, holding no +insurance. + +Returning from Asheville, she spent a winter teaching in Washington, D. +C. Returning to Auburn she spent the summer and autumn, and then went +to Indianapolis. She taught dancing in La Fayette, Ind., in a young +ladies’ school. + + + Shaken by an Earthquake + +While in Asheville she visited Charleston, S. C., and was there +during the earthquake felt there. She then went to Bay City, Mich. +She spent one summer at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., teaching a system of +piano music. A year later she returned to San Antonio, Texas, going +from there to Mexico City, where she spent the month of December, then +returned to San Antonio. Assisted by Rev. Walter Richardson, rector of +St. Paul’s Church, and an eminent and cultured woman, a member of the +church, Mrs. J. J. Stevens, she opened classes in physical culture, +returning to Bay City the last of April, where she had been keeping +house. She remained there until October 4, 1900, when she came to +Niagara Falls. + + + How She Came to Go Over Niagara + +The manner in which Mrs. Taylor got the inspiration to go over the +Falls of Niagara, to perform a feat never before attempted by a human +being, is best told by her in the following words: + +For two years I had been constantly studying, when not occupied in +teaching, what I could do to make money--to make it honestly and +quickly. All kinds of schemes ran riot through my brain. Reading in a +New York paper about people going to the Pan-American Exposition, and +from there to Niagara Falls, the idea came to me like a flash of light, +“Go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. No one has ever accomplished this +feat.” I did not think it wrong, as there was nothing immodest in the +act, nor did it involve the life of anyone but myself. I believe in +prayer, and that God will answer if only there is faith. As my motive +was not a selfish one, but to succor two friends, one who has little +children, the other in delicate health, and to aid myself financially, +I believed I would live. I was determined to live, to vindicate to the +world God’s mercy and goodness. + + + Her Desire Was to Help Others + +I frankly avowed what my purpose was, viz.: To aid two friends, raise +money to help me pay a few small debts, and to enable me to sell some +Texas land. Just how this was to be done I did not know, but thought a +crowd would gather and a collection could be taken up. My great mistake +was in selecting a manager, F. M. Russell of Bay City, who was well +recommended, but who proved in every way unworthy the trust reposed in +him. + + + She Designed Her Barrel + +The idea came to me in August. I immediately set to work to shape a +barrel, which I did, cutting it out of paper and sewing it together +with twine. The dimensions were: 12 in. head, 34 in. middle, 15 in. +foot. The barrel was 4½ ft. high, weight 160 lbs. It was made of white +Kentucky oak, with ten hoops, each riveted every four inches. The +barrel was made by Bocenchia of West Bay City. + + + Her Trip Over the Falls + +October 24, 1901, I left the shore from Buffalo Avenue in a boat, and +was rowed by two men to Grass Island. I then took off my hat, street +skirt and coat, and entered the barrel, the barrel being placed in the +water. I then adjusted a woven strap around my waist, and a strap from +the back went through an eye in the foot of the barrel, fastened to +a buckle in front to my belt. This was to keep my head from violent +contact with the barrel. I placed two cushions on my person extending +down to the knees--one in the bottom of the barrel. When all was in +readiness, the head of the barrel was screwed down perfectly tight. A +tube inserted in the chines I held in my hand, and an air-pump was used +to fill the barrel with fresh air. I then put a cork in the end of the +tube I held in my hand. All was now ready, and the boatmen towed the +barrel out to the current, which they thought would carry me over the +_center_ of the Horseshoe. + +I did not say, like Dante, on entering the barrel, “Who enters here +leaves all hope behind,” but as I faced the inevitable, life or a +horrible death in 50 minutes, my courage rose. + + + Cast Adrift + +Thus, as the rap came on the barrel which told me I was cut loose, and +no human power could avail me, for I was started on a trip no traveler +had ever taken, my heart swelled, and for some moments I felt as though +I were being suffocated, but I determined to be brave. By a supreme +effort of will I calmed myself at once, and began earnestly to pray--if +it was God’s will to spare my life, if not to give me an easy death. + +The trip through the Rapids was nothing but a pleasant sensation. I +could feel the barrel toss and often turning partly over, until I +come to first _drop_ over a reef, when the bottom caught for a +moment. The barrel swerved, and for a moment I thought I would go head +first, but with a jerk it loosened, turned foot down, and plunged to +the bottom. I felt the water close over my head, but was not hurt. The +barrel rose to the surface instantly, and pursued its course. + + + Toward the Mighty Cataract + +Again the barrel swerved to the left, and I knew instinctively that +should it pursue its course it would be dashed to atoms on the giant +rocks near the Canadian shore. But God was good. The barrel paused, +raised slowly on its head, then turned over on a rock and pursued its +course down to the Brink of the Precipice. I tore the cushion from my +head, placed it quickly under my knees, and dropped to the bottom of +the barrel. + +As I reached the brink the barrel did what I predicted it would do, +paused for a moment and then + + + Made the Awful Plunge + +of 158 feet to the boiling cauldron below. I thought for a moment my +senses were lost. The feeling was one of absolute horror, but still I +knew when I struck the water of the lower river. The shock was not so +great, but I went down, down until the momentum had spent itself. + +Below the surface _all was still_. Not a sound reached me. Slowly +I arose, but unfortunately on coming to the surface I came under the +falling of water and was carried back of the sheet that tumbles over +the precipice. It was then I began to suffer. The barrel was whirled +like a dasher in a churn; lifted, I should think, four or five feet +clear of the water, and thrown violently about, at the same time turned +around and around with the greatest velocity, struck on the rocks, and +each moment water was forcing itself in at the point where the anvil at +the bottom had been imperfectly put on. As the barrel turned violently +around and around the sensation was terrible. + + + Afloat on the Lower River + +The barrel then shot out from the Cataract like an arrow from a bow, +giving me a frightful lurch. After a short time I felt the barrel being +drawn up to a rock. It was none too soon, however, as my strength was +spent. When I realized I had been rescued my senses immediately left +me. Like a person falling to sleep, I became unconscious. + +Through the kindness of John Ross, chief engineer of the “Maid of the +Mist,” and Mr. Williams of Canada, a wrench was brought, the barrel +opened, and the fresh air struck me. + +A man’s voice exclaimed: + + + “The Woman is Alive!” + +I answered, “Yes, she is, though much hurt and confused.” I was carried +to my boarding house, and after suffering great pain was restored to my +normal condition. The greater part of my life that remains to me will +be devoted to doing good to others, for a woman, be she a true woman, +can bless and glorify the lowest grade of humanity. + + ANNIE EDSON TAYLOR. + + + Newspaper Men Were Witnesses + +TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: + +This is to certify that Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor passed over the +Canadian, otherwise known as the Horseshoe Falls, on October 24, 1901, +and further that we were eyewitnesses of the fact having been present +when she entered the barrel as well as when she was taken from it after +having successfully made the trip. + + CHARLES E. PERIGO, + City Editor, Cataract-Journal. + N. F. MADDEVER, + City Editor, Gazette. + + + Mayor Butler Certifies to the Trip + + NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., April 1, 1902. + +TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: + +This is to certify that on October 24, 1901, Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor +went over the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls in a barrel and survived. + + MIGHELLS B. BUTLER, + Mayor. + + + Took Her From the Barrel + + STEAMER “MAID OF THE MIST,” + NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., June 3, 1902 + +TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: + +I, the undersigned, certify that on the afternoon of Thursday, the 24th +day of October, 1901, I personally, opened the barrel that had come +over the Falls and found a woman inside in a fainting condition but +after the admission of air she shortly revived. With the assistance of +Harry Williams, proprietor of the Lafayette Hotel, and John Dunn, I +took her out of the barrel and put her in a row boat and took her to +the Canadian dock, where she was placed in a carriage and taken away. I +have seen the woman known as Mrs. Taylor on two occasions since and can +positively say she is the same person who was taken from the barrel at +Bass rock eddy, on the shore of the Niagara River, below the Horseshoe +Falls of Niagara. + + JOHN ROSS, + Chief Engineer, + S. S. “Maid of the Mist.” + + + Saw Her Come Over the Horseshoe + + STEAMER “MAID OF THE MIST,” + NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., June 3, 1902. + +TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: + +We, the undersigned, master and mate of the Steamer “Maid of the Mist,” +plying on the Niagara River immediately below the Falls of Niagara, do +hereby certify that on the 24th day of October, 1901, about 4 o’clock +p. m., we being on board our boat directly under the Horseshoe Falls, +saw a barrel come over the brink and drift down the heavy current close +to the Canadian shore, fetching up in Bass rock eddy, it being about a +quarter of a mile below the Horseshoe Falls. We saw the barrel taken +from the water and the person of a woman taken from the barrel, and who +(contrary to our expectations) was alive, and we confidently believe +her to be the only human being that ever went over the Falls of Niagara +and lived, and we can certify that the woman known to us since as Mrs. +A. E. Taylor was the person taken out of the barrel. + + R. R. CARTER, + Master S. S. “Maid of the Mist.” + WILLIAM THOMAS, + Mate, “Maid of the Mist.” + + + + + Maid Of The Mist + + +Of all the water trips in the world there is none that equals the +voyage on the lower river in front of the + + Falls of Niagara + +The staunch and pretty steamers leave the docks at the foot of the +inclined railways in the great free parks and pass through the spray +clouds to + + Rainbow Land + +Passengers have the privilege of stop-over on the side opposite to +their starting point and returning on any boat during the same day. +Waterproof clothing is furnished as protection against the spray. +The trip affords the most beautiful and unique views of the great +Cataract, and no one who has not taken the trip has seen Niagara and +its stupendous grandeur. + + + FARE, ROUND TRIP + INCLUDING WATERPROOF CLOTHING + 50 Cents + + [Illustration] + FRANK LE BLOND, Manager + + + + + TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES + + +In this text, small capitals have been represented by ALL CAPITALS. +Words in italics have been marked by _underscores_. + +The date on the title page has been left as printed (“190 ”). + +Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without comment. + +Variant spellings of the same name have been retained as originally +printed. + +Original spelling has been retained except for the following probable +typographical errors: + + Page 6: + “tumultous” changed to “tumultuous” + “...through the wild, tumultuous, tossing waters...” + + Page 6: + “stupenduous” changed to “stupendous” + “...that stupendous downpour of water...” + + Page 7: + “commended” changed to “commanded” + “...the announcement commanded but little attention.” + + Page 7: + “choatic” changed to “chaotic” + “...she had studied the chaotic nature of the waters...” + + Page 8: + “belive” changed to “believe” + “...who had come to believe that...” + + Page 13: + “heigh” changed to “high” + “The barrel was 4½ ft. high, weight 160 lbs...” + + Page 13: + “stap” changed to “strap” + “I then adjusted a woven strap around my waist...” + + Page 15: + “Lkie” changed to “Like” + “Like a person falling to sleep...” +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78938 *** diff --git a/78938-h/78938-h.htm b/78938-h/78938-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4aca33f --- /dev/null +++ b/78938-h/78938-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,805 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> +<head> + <meta charset="UTF-8"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no,date=no,address=no,email=no,url=no"> + <title> + Over the Falls | Project Gutenberg + </title> + <link rel="icon" href="images/cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover"> + <style> + +body { + margin-left: 10%; 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+ padding:0.5em; + margin-bottom:5em; + font-family:sans-serif, serif; +} +</style> +</head> + +<body> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78938 ***</div> + + +<!-- B O O K C O V E R --> +<div class="chapter center"> +<img class="cover" src="images/cover.jpg" alt="Book cover showing Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls."> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" aria-hidden="true"> + +<!-- T I T L E P A G E --> +<div class="chapter"> +<h1> +OVER THE FALLS +</h1> + +<p class="center p4"> + ANNIE EDSON TAYLOR’S<br> + STORY OF HER<br> + LIFE +</p> + +<p class="center p4"> + HOW THE HORSESHOE FALL WAS CONQUERED +</p> + +<p class="center"> + <img class="deco" src="images/do.jpg" alt=""> +</p> + +<p class="center"> + Copyright July 15, 1902, by Annie Edson Taylor +</p> +<p class="center p4"> + Published by<br> + Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor<br> + June, 190 +</p> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" aria-hidden="true"> + +<main> + +<!-- F R O N T I S P I E C E --> +<div class="chapter"> +<figure class="frontis"> + <img src="images/i_04.jpg" + alt="Mrs. Taylor's route over Horseshoe Falls."> + <figcaption> + The lines on this photo show the direction Mrs. Taylor and her + barrel took on her frightful plunge over the Horseshoe. + </figcaption> +</figure> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" aria-hidden="true"> + +<!-- P R E F A C E --> +<div class="chapter"> +<span class="pagenum">5</span> + <h2 class="nobreak"> + Preface + </h2> +<p>Despite the thrilling nature of the story of which this book +is designed to be an accurate record, no attempt has been made to +embellish it with sensational statements. It is a plain recital of +fact. Annie Edson Taylor is the only human being who has ever gone over +the Falls of Niagara and lived to tell the story of her experience. +Even in its plain way, this little book has the distinguishing feature +of being a story thoroughly original; a story which no other one of +the million of people on this earth can truthfully tell as Annie Edson +Taylor has told it.</p> + +<p>In the face of her wonderful accomplishment of having conquered the +greatest waterfall in existence, Mrs. Taylor is not unmindful of the +history of Niagara, and so it is her wish that this book be dedicated +to the memory of the Indian maidens whose lives were sacrificed, as the +legends of old tell us, in the days gone by, when it was the custom of +the tribes to offer up their fairest daughters to the Great Spirit. As +the world has progressed science and invention have demonstrated where +mistakes were made in many fields, and it remained for Mrs. Taylor to +show that the mistake of the Indian maidens was in trying to conquer +Niagara in birch bark canoes instead of in barrels of Kentucky oak. We +live to learn.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" aria-hidden="true"> + +<!-- N I A G R A ' S V O Y A G E R S --> +<div class="chapter"> +<span class="pagenum">6</span> + <h2 class="nobreak"> + Niagara’s Voyagers + </h2> +<p>Ever since the early part of the nineteenth century Niagara has +been the scene of perilous feats. Perhaps the earliest of these +performances was the leap of Sam Patch in 1829. From that time on, at +various intervals, men and women have journeyed to Niagara to win fame +and fortune by doing some deed they hoped would make them an unusual +attraction in the several fields they elected to enter to gain a +living.</p> + +<p>The most popular feat at Niagara for many years was to voyage +through the Whirlpool Rapids in a boat or barrel or protected only by a +life preserver. Possibly the feat of Joel Robinson of June 6, 1861, set +the pace in this field of adventure. It was Robinson who piloted the +steamer Maid of the Mist through the marvelous Niagara canyon and its +rough waters to the more placid portion of the stream at Queenston.</p> + +<p>The intrepid Capt. Matthew Webb, a man who had successfully swam +across the English Channel, had the daring to try and pass through the +wild, <a href="#6.0b" id="6.0a">tumultuous</a>, tossing waters of the +Whirlpool Rapids unprotected, but instead of being a trip to fame, his +was a trip to eternity. After Webb came many others, and it was then +that the barrel voyager of the Niagara came into prominence. Protected +by barrels several have made trips through the Whirlpool Rapids and +Whirlpool, in fact this voyage long ago became lacking in interest.</p> + +<p>These circumstances and conditions led several to look about Niagara +in hopes of discovering some other route to golden fame. Of course, +there was the Falls, that <a href="#6b" id="6a">stupendous</a> +downpour of water <span class="pagenum">7</span> that drops the +overflow of Lake Erie to the stream that runs so swiftly on to “Old +Ontario.” The Falls of Niagara were there, and had been there for +centuries, but even the ambitious men and women who desired to link +their names forever with Niagara and its wonders, looked upon it as +too great a proposition for them to trifle with; they wanted fame, +they wanted dollars, but none of them sought death. And it was written +all about Niagara, on the tongues and faces of the oldest and youngest +residents, that whoever dare try and conquer this noble and sublime +Cataract would surely go down to the grave—a grave marked by a monument +bearing a statement of the occupant’s foolishness in presuming to pass +over the precipice of Niagara and live.</p> + +<p>When Annie Edson Taylor journeyed to Niagara and announced an +intention of going over the Falls, the announcement <a href="#7.1b" +id="7.1a">commanded</a> but little attention. Everybody looked upon it +as a ridiculous ambition—a foolish idea—and the knowing ones guessed +that when she had studied the <a href="#7.2b" id="7.2a">chaotic</a> +nature of the waters in the three-quarter mile stretch of rapids +above the Horseshoe, she would quickly conclude that her home was a +more peaceful place in which to end her days. Nobody believed that a +woman would require but a glance at the awful plunge over the Falls +to convince her that death lurked in those waters, eager to continue +the unbroken record of fatalities on the list of those who had +involuntarily been caught in the suction of the upper rapids and swept +over the frightful brink into the chasm below.</p> + +<p>But Annie Edson Taylor lingered at Niagara. The date of her +announced trip arrived. The wind was too high to allow the boatmen to +reach the current necessary to escape the rocky reefs and to be swept +over the Horseshoe, <span class="pagenum">8</span> and the world was +amazed by the statement sent out from Niagara that night that Annie +Edson Taylor was still determined to conquer the Horseshoe Fall of +Niagara or die. It was then that the people of the locality got serious +on the matter. Previous to this time there had been a vast amount +of joking, all at Mrs. Taylor’s expense, but this woman’s will was +terribly set, and even the Coroner of Niagara concluded that it was +time for him to interfere in his official capacity.</p> + +<p>On October 24, 1901, Annie Edson Taylor and her barrel were again +taken out on the Upper Niagara, and the story that follows tells that +she is the only person who has ever voluntarily made the frightful trip +through the Upper Rapids of the Niagara, plunged over the Horseshoe +Fall and floated on the foam-lashed, whirling waters of the Lower +Niagara. When it was announced that Mrs. Taylor had successfully made +the awful trip, the terrible drop into the gorge, the world was amazed, +but none more so than the people who had passed their lives close by +the Mighty Cataract, and who had come to <a href="#8b" id="8a">believe</a> that no human being +could pass over it and live.</p> + +<p>In the lines that follow Mrs. Taylor has herself told in a plain +manner the story of her life and her victory at Niagara. Her deed +singles her out from all the world, in that she has done what no other +man or woman ever before attempted. How she became impressed with the +belief that she could conquer Niagara is a mystery, but conquer it she +did.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" aria-hidden="true"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<span class="pagenum">9</span> + <h2 class="nobreak"> + The Story of Her Life + </h2> + +<img class="figleft" src="images/i_09.jpg" + alt="Photo of Annie Edson Taylor standing next to her barrel."> + +<p>Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor, born October 24, 1855, near Auburn, N. Y., +on the bank of Owasco Lake, the country seat of her father, Merrick +Edson, who was of English descent, born in Massachusetts. Her mother, +Lucretia Warren, was born in Albany, N. Y., and was connected with +some of the oldest and best families of that day. Merick Edson owned +large milling interests on Owasco River, which runs through the city +of Auburn. In winter the family lived in the city, in summer on the +farm, where little Annie went to the district school, and in winter to +the city school. She was of a dreamy, imaginative disposition, fond of +out-door sports and of books, especially those which run on adventures, +such as “Life in Australia,” historical novels, and at the age when +most girls were thinking of lovers, was reading Roman History and +Plutarch’s lives.</p> + +<p>Merick Edson, her father, died when Annie was about 10 years of +age. From that time up to 14 life was uneventful. At that age she and +two older brothers were sent by <span class="pagenum">10</span> their +guardian to Charlottville, Schoharie County, to a seminary for boys +and girls. This was an excellent school, discipline rigid, under the +auspices of 24 selected teachers. There friendships were formed which +changed the current of Annie’s whole life. Among the older girls was a +Miss Jennie Taylor, a fine and accomplished scholar, who was chosen as +a room mate for Annie.</p> + +<h3>Married at Eighteen</h3> + +<p>Later on she made the acquaintance of D. S. Taylor, who at the age +of 18 became her husband. The marriage was blessed with one child, who +died in a few days. Her husband died in a little over two years. Then +it was that Annie realized the imperfections of her education and the +folly of a too early marriage. In a few months she entered the Normal +State School at Albany and became an indefatigable student, and at the +close of three years graduated, taking her vacation with a married +sister near Auburn. Among the many schoolmates to whom Annie became +attached were two lovely Southern girls, the Misses Kate and Mary +Kingsbury. The latter was of Annie’s age, and most intimate friend. +Annie was invited to spend a year at their Southern home.</p> + +<p>But, in the meantime, Miss Kate Kingsbury had contracted a most +brilliant marriage with her cousin, and had gone to the faraway city +of San Antonio, Texas. Annie concluded to go there for a year. After +much opposition from her family and friends, one stormy day in October, +1880, she took ship from New York for Cuba, and after a month’s stay +went from there to Galveston, and from Galveston by rail to Austin, +the capital; thence by stage through to San Antonio. After meeting +her friends, the Kingsburys, Annie took a position as teacher in the +High School. During vacation she went to New Mexico with a <span +class="pagenum">11</span> party of officers and their families, taking +the overland route, where Capt. Nolan had a detail of soldiers guarding +the building of railroads in the Shasta Mountains, and where every day +the lives of the party were in jeopardy from Indians. On return to +Texas, while rooming in Kingsbury Street, one night was chloroformed +and her room searched for $3,000, which had been taken in for rents by +Mrs. Taylor, who was acting as agent for the Kingsburys (who at that +time were away).</p> + + +<h3>Held Up by Robbers</h3> + +<p>On return North the stage was held up by a gang of robbers. In all, +$3,000 dollars was taken from the male passengers. Mrs. Taylor had $800 +concealed in the folds of her gown, on the robbers pressing a loaded +pistol to her temple and demanding the money she had, said, “Blow +away, I would as soon be without brains as without money.” They spared +her life. This occurred between San Antonio and Austin, in a forest. +After a year’s course in New York City, under the best instructors in +dancing and physical culture, Mrs. Taylor went to Asheville, N. C., and +immediately engaged in teaching those branches.</p> + +<p>Just previous to that time she was in Chattanooga, Tenn., where I +loaned $1,700 and it was lost in the boom in progress at that time, +she was also burned out, losing all her household goods, holding no +insurance.</p> + +<p>Returning from Asheville, she spent a winter teaching in Washington, +D. C. Returning to Auburn she spent the summer and autumn, and then +went to Indianapolis. She taught dancing in La Fayette, Ind., in a +young ladies’ school.</p> + + +<h3>Shaken by an Earthquake</h3> + +<p>While in Asheville she visited Charleston, S. C., and <span +class="pagenum">12</span> was there during the earthquake felt there. +She then went to Bay City, Mich. She spent one summer at Sault Ste. +Marie, Mich., teaching a system of piano music. A year later she +returned to San Antonio, Texas, going from there to Mexico City, where +she spent the month of December, then returned to San Antonio. Assisted +by Rev. Walter Richardson, rector of St. Paul’s Church, and an eminent +and cultured woman, a member of the church, Mrs. J. J. Stevens, she +opened classes in physical culture, returning to Bay City the last +of April, where she had been keeping house. She remained there until +October 4, 1900, when she came to Niagara Falls.</p> + + +<h3>How She Came to Go Over Niagara</h3> + +<p>The manner in which Mrs. Taylor got the inspiration to go over the +Falls of Niagara, to perform a feat never before attempted by a human +being, is best told by her in the following words:</p> + +<p>For two years I had been constantly studying, when not occupied +in teaching, what I could do to make money—to make it honestly and +quickly. All kinds of schemes ran riot through my brain. Reading in a +New York paper about people going to the Pan-American Exposition, and +from there to Niagara Falls, the idea came to me like a flash of light, +“Go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. No one has ever accomplished this +feat.” I did not think it wrong, as there was nothing immodest in the +act, nor did it involve the life of anyone but myself. I believe in +prayer, and that God will answer if only there is faith. As my motive +was not a selfish one, but to succor two friends, one who has little +children, the other in delicate health, and to aid myself financially, +I believed I would live. I was determined to live, to vindicate to the +world God’s mercy and goodness. <span class="pagenum">13</span></p> + +<h3>Her Desire Was to Help Others</h3> + +<p>I frankly avowed what my purpose was, viz.: To aid two friends, +raise money to help me pay a few small debts, and to enable me to sell +some Texas land. Just how this was to be done I did not know, but +thought a crowd would gather and a collection could be taken up. My +great mistake was in selecting a manager, F. M. Russell of Bay City, +who was well recommended, but who proved in every way unworthy the +trust reposed in him.</p> + +<h3>She Designed Her Barrel</h3> + +<p>The idea came to me in August. I immediately set to work to shape +a barrel, which I did, cutting it out of paper and sewing it together +with twine. The dimensions were: 12 in. head, 34 in. middle, 15 in. +foot. The barrel was 4½ ft. <a href="#13.1b" id="13.1a">high</a>, weight +160 lbs. It was made of white Kentucky oak, with ten hoops, each +riveted every four inches. The barrel was made by Bocenchia of West Bay +City.</p> + +<h3>Her Trip Over the Falls</h3> + +<p>October 24, 1901, I left the shore from Buffalo Avenue in a +boat, and was rowed by two men to Grass Island. I then took off +my hat, street skirt and coat, and entered the barrel, the barrel +being placed in the water. I then adjusted a woven <a href="#13.2b" +id="13.2a">strap</a> around my waist, and a strap from the back went +through an eye in the foot of the barrel, fastened to a buckle in +front to my belt. This was to keep my head from violent contact with +the barrel. I placed two cushions on my person extending down to the +knees—one in the bottom of the barrel. When all was in readiness, the +head of the barrel was screwed down perfectly tight. A tube inserted +in the chines I held in my hand, and an air-pump was used to fill the +barrel with fresh air. I then put a cork in the end of the tube I held +in my hand. <span class="pagenum">14</span> All was now ready, and the +boatmen towed the barrel out to the current, which they thought would +carry me over the <i>center</i> of the Horseshoe.</p> + +<p>I did not say, like Dante, on entering the barrel, “Who enters here +leaves all hope behind,” but as I faced the inevitable, life or a +horrible death in 50 minutes, my courage rose.</p> + + +<h3>Cast Adrift</h3> + +<p>Thus, as the rap came on the barrel which told me I was cut loose, +and no human power could avail me, for I was started on a trip no +traveler had ever taken, my heart swelled, and for some moments I felt +as though I were being suffocated, but I determined to be brave. By a +supreme effort of will I calmed myself at once, and began earnestly to +pray—if it was God’s will to spare my life, if not to give me an easy +death.</p> + +<p>The trip through the Rapids was nothing but a pleasant sensation. +I could feel the barrel toss and often turning partly over, until I +come to first <i>drop</i> over a reef, when the bottom caught for a +moment. The barrel swerved, and for a moment I thought I would go head +first, but with a jerk it loosened, turned foot down, and plunged to +the bottom. I felt the water close over my head, but was not hurt. The +barrel rose to the surface instantly, and pursued its course.</p> + +<h3>Toward the Mighty Cataract</h3> + +<p>Again the barrel swerved to the left, and I knew instinctively that +should it pursue its course it would be dashed to atoms on the giant +rocks near the Canadian shore. But God was good. The barrel paused, +raised slowly on its head, then turned over on a rock and pursued +its course down to the Brink of the Precipice. I tore the <span +class="pagenum">15</span> cushion from my head, placed it quickly under +my knees, and dropped to the bottom of the barrel.</p> + +<p>As I reached the brink the barrel did what I predicted it would do, +paused for a moment and then</p> + +<h3>Made the Awful Plunge</h3> + +<p>of 158 feet to the boiling cauldron below. I thought for a moment my +senses were lost. The feeling was one of absolute horror, but still I +knew when I struck the water of the lower river. The shock was not so +great, but I went down, down until the momentum had spent itself.</p> + +<p>Below the surface <i>all was still</i>. Not a sound reached me. +Slowly I arose, but unfortunately on coming to the surface I came under +the falling of water and was carried back of the sheet that tumbles +over the precipice. It was then I began to suffer. The barrel was +whirled like a dasher in a churn; lifted, I should think, four or five +feet clear of the water, and thrown violently about, at the same time +turned around and around with the greatest velocity, struck on the +rocks, and each moment water was forcing itself in at the point where +the anvil at the bottom had been imperfectly put on. As the barrel +turned violently around and around the sensation was terrible.</p> + +<h3>Afloat on the Lower River</h3> + +<p>The barrel then shot out from the Cataract like an arrow from a bow, +giving me a frightful lurch. After a short time I felt the barrel being +drawn up to a rock. It was none too soon, however, as my strength was +spent. When I realized I had been rescued my senses immediately left +me. <a href="#15b" id="15a">Like</a> a person falling to sleep, I became unconscious.</p> + +<p>Through the kindness of John Ross, chief engineer of the +“Maid of the Mist,” and Mr. Williams of Canada, a <span +class="pagenum">16</span> wrench was brought, the barrel opened, and +the fresh air struck me.</p> + +<p>A man’s voice exclaimed:</p> + +<h3>“The Woman is Alive!”</h3> + +<p>I answered, “Yes, she is, though much hurt and confused.” I was +carried to my boarding house, and after suffering great pain was +restored to my normal condition. The greater part of my life that +remains to me will be devoted to doing good to others, for a woman, +be she a true woman, can bless and glorify the lowest grade of +humanity.</p> + +<p class="right">ANNIE EDSON TAYLOR.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" aria-hidden="true"> + +<!-- W I T N E S S E S --> +<div class="chapter"> +<h4 class="nobreak"> + Newspaper Men Were Witnesses +</h4> + +<p><span class="smcap">To Whom it may Concern</span>:</p> + +<p>This is to certify that Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor passed over the +Canadian, otherwise known as the Horseshoe Falls, on October 24, 1901, +and further that we were eyewitnesses of the fact having been present +when she entered the barrel as well as when she was taken from it after +having successfully made the trip. +</p> + +<p class="cc"> + CHARLES E. PERIGO,<br> + <span class="indent2">City Editor, Cataract-Journal.</span><br> + N. F. MADDEVER,<br> + <span class="indent2">City Editor, Gazette.</span> +</p> + +<hr> + +<h4 class="nobreak"> + Mayor Butler Certifies to the Trip +</h4> + +<p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Niagara Falls</span>, N. Y., April 1, 1902. +</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">To Whom it may Concern</span>:</p> + +<p>This is to certify that on October 24, 1901, Mrs. Annie Edson +Taylor went over the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls in a barrel and +survived.</p> + +<p class="cc"> + MIGHELLS B. BUTLER,<br> + <span class="indent2">Mayor.</span> +</p> + +<hr> + +<h4>Took Her From the Barrel<span class="pagenum">17</span></h4> + +<p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Steamer “Maid of the Mist,”</span><br> + <span class="smcap">Niagara Falls, N. Y.</span>, June 3, 1902 +</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">To Whom it may Concern</span>:</p> + +<p>I, the undersigned, certify that on the afternoon of Thursday, the +24th day of October, 1901, I personally, opened the barrel that had +come over the Falls and found a woman inside in a fainting condition +but after the admission of air she shortly revived. With the assistance +of Harry Williams, proprietor of the Lafayette Hotel, and John Dunn, I +took her out of the barrel and put her in a row boat and took her to +the Canadian dock, where she was placed in a carriage and taken away. I +have seen the woman known as Mrs. Taylor on two occasions since and can +positively say she is the same person who was taken from the barrel at +Bass rock eddy, on the shore of the Niagara River, below the Horseshoe +Falls of Niagara.</p> + +<p class="cc"> + JOHN ROSS,<br> + <span class="indent2">Chief Engineer,</span><br> + <span class="indent2">S. S. “Maid of the Mist.”</span> +</p> + +<hr> + +<h4>Saw Her Come Over the Horseshoe</h4> + +<p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Steamer “Maid of the Mist,”</span><br> + <span class="smcap">Niagara Falls</span>, N. Y., June 3, 1902. +</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">To Whom it may Concern</span>:</p> + +<p>We, the undersigned, master and mate of the Steamer “Maid of the +Mist,” plying on the Niagara River immediately below the Falls of +Niagara, do hereby certify that on the 24th day of October, 1901, +about 4 o’clock p. m., we being on board our boat directly under the +Horseshoe Falls, saw a barrel come over the brink and drift down the +heavy current close to the Canadian shore, fetching up in Bass rock +eddy, it being about a quarter of a mile below the Horseshoe Falls. We +saw the barrel taken from the water and the person of a woman taken +from the barrel, and who (contrary to our expectations) was alive, and +we confidently believe her to be the only human being that ever went +over the Falls of Niagara and lived, and we can certify that the woman +known to us since as Mrs. A. E. Taylor was the person taken out of the +barrel.</p> + +<p class="cc"> + R. R. CARTER,<br> + <span class="indent2">Master S. S. “Maid of the Mist.”</span><br> + WILLIAM THOMAS,<br> + <span class="indent2">Mate, “Maid of the Mist.”</span> +</p> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" aria-hidden="true"> + +<!-- A D V E R T I S M E N T --> + +<div class="chapter"> +<span class="pagenum">18</span> +<h2 class="nobreak"> + Maid Of The Mist +</h2> + +<p>Of all the water trips in the world there is none that equals the +voyage on the lower river in front of the</p> + +<p class="s3">Falls of Niagara</p> + +<p>The staunch and pretty steamers leave the docks at the foot of the +inclined railways in the great free parks and pass through the spray +clouds to</p> + +<p class="s3">Rainbow Land</p> + +<p>Passengers have the privilege of stop-over on the side opposite to +their starting point and returning on any boat during the same day. +Waterproof clothing is furnished as protection against the spray. +The trip affords the most beautiful and unique views of the great +Cataract, and no one who has not taken the trip has seen Niagara and +its stupendous grandeur.</p> + +<p class="center p2"> + FARE, ROUND TRIP<br> + INCLUDING WATERPROOF CLOTHING<br> + 50 Cents +</p> + +<p class="center"> + <img class="deco" src="images/do.jpg" alt=""><br> + FRANK LE BLOND, Manager +</p> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" aria-hidden="true"> + +<!-- T R A N S C R I B E R ' S N O T E S --> + +<div class="chapter transnote"> +<p class="s3">TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES</p> +<p>The date on the title page has been left as printed (“190 ”).</p> + +<p>Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without comment.</p> + +<p>Variant spellings of the same name have been retained as originally +printed.</p> + +<p>Original spelling has been retained except for the following +probable typographical errors:</p> + +<ul> +<li> +<p>Page 6:<br> +“tumultous” changed to “tumultuous”<br> +“...through the wild, <a href="#6.0a" id="6.0b">tumultuous</a>, tossing +waters...” +</p> +</li><li> +<p>Page 6:<br> +“stupenduous” changed to “stupendous”<br> +“...that <a href="#6a" id="6b">stupendous</a> downpour of water...” +</p> +</li><li> +<p>Page 7:<br> +“commended” changed to “commanded”<br> +“...the announcement <a href="#7.1a" id="7.1b">commanded</a> +but little attention.” +</p> +</li><li> +<p>Page 7:<br> +“choatic” changed to “chaotic”<br> +“...she had studied the <a href="#7.2a" id="7.2b">chaotic</a> nature of +the waters...” +</p> +</li><li> +<p>Page 8:<br> +“belive” changed to “believe”<br> +“...who had come to <a href="#8a" id="8b">believe</a> that...” +</p> +</li><li> +<p>Page 13:<br> +“heigh” changed to “high”<br> +“The barrel was 4½ ft. <a href="#13.1a" id="13.1b">high</a>, weight 160 +lbs...” +</p> +</li><li> +<p>Page 13:<br> +“stap” changed to “strap”<br> +“I then adjusted a woven <a href="#13.2a" id="13.2b">strap</a> around +my waist...” +</p> +</li><li> +<p>Page 15: +“Lkie” changed to “Like”<br> +“<a href="#15a" id="15b">Like</a> a person falling to sleep...” +</p> +</li> +</ul> + +<p> +New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the +public domain. +</p> +</div> +</main> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78938 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/78938-h/images/cover.jpg b/78938-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3390100 --- /dev/null +++ b/78938-h/images/cover.jpg diff --git a/78938-h/images/do.jpg b/78938-h/images/do.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a21108 --- /dev/null +++ b/78938-h/images/do.jpg diff --git a/78938-h/images/i_04.jpg b/78938-h/images/i_04.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..14f9eed --- /dev/null +++ b/78938-h/images/i_04.jpg diff --git a/78938-h/images/i_09.jpg b/78938-h/images/i_09.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..662072e --- /dev/null +++ b/78938-h/images/i_09.jpg diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c72794 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This book, including all associated images, markup, improvements, +metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be +in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. + +Procedures for determining public domain status are described in +the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org. + +No investigation has been made concerning possible copyrights in +jurisdictions other than the United States. 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