The Slide For Life

THE SLIDE FOR LIFE.

Daring Aerial Feat Performed by Cameroni on a Slack Wire.

One of the most thrilling and daring feats of the modern style of entertainment is the "slide for life," wherein a man hanging to a slender bit of leather by his teeth rushes down a slack wire for 1,600 feet and 175 feet above the surface of the earth.

Cameroni, who does the "slide for life" at Luna park, Coney Island, New York, is one of those who believe in the dangerous and life risking element in the solution of modem entertainments.

He takes his position on the high scaffold near the top of the great central tower, a small speck of a man making ready to swing away on a taut wire stretching 1,600 feet to the westward and 175 feet from the earth.

He is girded about with courage and the American flag. He tests the wire with both hands, rubs it with his pocket handkerchief and gazes calmly at the wide, white pools of faces comprising the modern Roman populace beneath him.

A sound floats up like the soft shimmer of a sea of silk. There is a humming of 10,000 voices as Cameroni darts out from the tower like a bird. As he starts he loosens the American flag, which whips royally behind him. He fires revolvers rapidly with both hands and goes sailing away into the darkness.