Careers of Danger and Daring

by Cleveland Moffett

CONTENTS

The Steeple-Climber
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i	In Which We Make the Acquaintance of "Steeple Bob"	[3]
ii	How They Blew Off the Top of a Steeple with Dynamite	[14]
iii	The Greatest Danger to a Steeple-Climber Lies in Being Startled	[21]
iv	Experience of an Amateur Climbing to a Steeple-top	[29]
The Deep-Sea Diver
i	Some First Impressions of Men Who Go Down Under the Sea	[40]
ii	A Visit to the Burying-ground of Wrecks	[54]
iii	An Afternoon of Story-telling on the Steam-pump Dunderberg	[63]
iv	Wherein We Meet Sharks, Alligators, and a Very Tough Problem in Wrecking	[71]
v	In Which the Author Puts on a Diving-suit and Goes Down to a Wreck	[78]
The Balloonist
i	Here We Visit a Balloon Farm and Talk with the Man Who Runs It	[87]
ii	Which Treats of Experiments in Steering Balloons	[99]
iii	Something About Explosive Balloons and the Wonders of Hydrogen	[110]
iv	The Story of a Boy Who Ran Away in a Big Balloon	[117]
The Pilot
i	Some Stirring Tales of the Sea Heard at the Pilot's Club	[130]
ii	Which Shows How Pilots on the St. Lawrence Fight the Ice-floes	[141]
iii	Now We Watch the Men Who Shoot the Furious Rapids at Lachine	[148]
iv	What Canadian Pilots Did in the Cataracts of the Nile	[160]
The Bridge-Builder
i	In Which We Visit a Place of Unusual Fears and Perils	[173]
ii	The Experience of Two Novices in Balancing Along Narrow Girders and Watching the "Traveler" Gang	[182]
iii	Which Tells of Men Who Have Fallen from Great Heights	[197]
The Fireman
i	Wherein We See a Sleeping Village Swept by a River of Fire and the Burning of a Famous Hotel	[209]
ii	What Bill Brown Did in the Great Tarrant Fire	[222]
iii	Here We Visit an Engine-house at Night and Chat with the Driver	[233]
iv	Famous Rescues by New York Fire-boats from Red-hot Ocean Liners	[241]
The Aërial Acrobat
i	Showing That it Takes More Than Muscle and Skill to Work on the High Bars	[255]
ii	About Double and Triple Somersaults and the Danger of Losing Heart	[264]
iii	In Which the Author Tries His Hand with Professional Trapeze Performers	[272]
iv	Some Remarkable Falls and Narrow Escapes of Famous Athletes	[284]
The Wild-Beast Tamer
i	We Visit a Queer Resort for Circus People and Talk with a Trainer of Elephants	[293]
ii	Methods of Lion-tamers and the Story of Brutus's Attack on Mr. Bostock	[304]
iii	Bonavita Describes His Fight with Seven Lions and George Arstingstall Tells How He Conquered a Mad Elephant	[317]
iv	We See Mr. Bostock Matched Against a Wild Lion and Hear About the Tiger Rajah	[328]
v	We Spend a Night Among Wild Beasts and See the Dangerous Lion Black Prince	[339]
The Dynamite Worker
i	The Story of Some Millionaire Heroes and the World's Greatest Powder Explosion	[348]
ii	We Visit a Dynamite-factory and Meet a Man Who Thinks Courage is an Accident	[358]
iii	How Joshua Plumstead Stuck to His Nitro-Glycerin-Vat in an Explosion and Saved the Works	[367]
The Locomotive Engineer
i	How it Feels to Ride at Night on a Locomotive Going Ninety Miles an Hour	[377]
ii	We Pick Up Some Engine Lore and Hear About the Death of Giddings	[388]
iii	Some Memories of the Great Record-breaking Run from Chicago to Buffalo	[395]
iv	We Hear Some Thrilling Stories at a Round-house and Reach the End of the Book	[406]