LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Divers at Work Near a Wreck	[Frontispiece]
"I had To Crawl Around and Over it"	[5]
At the Top of St. Paul's, New York	[10]
"Then my Partner Stood on my Shoulders"	[12]
"Sometimes in Hard Places You have to Throw Your Nooses Around the Shaft"	[16]
Picture of the Falling Steeple, Photographed just after the Dynamite Exploded. The Falling Section was 35 Feet in Length and Weighed 35 Tons	[20]
Looking from the Ground Upward at St. Paul's Spire, Broadway, New York City	[25]
Gilding a Church Cross, Above New York City	[30]
How the Steeple-Climber Goes up a Flagpole	[37]
Portrait of a Diver. Drawn from Life	[43]
"The Diver's Helmet Showed like the Back of a Big Turtle"	[46]
Diver Standing on Sunken Coal Barge	[51]
The Men at Work with the Air-Pump	[57]
"I Stayed Down until that Chain was Under the Shaft"	[60]
The Man who Attends to the Diver's Signals	[65]
A Diver at Work on a Steamboat's Propeller	[75]
The Author going Down in a Diver's Suit	[80]
The Author after his First Dive. The Face-Plate has been Unscrewed from the Helmet	[83]
"Balloon-Cloth by Hundreds of Yards"	[88]
"Fields that Look like an Eskimo Village"	[89]
"A Pair of Great Wings made of Feathers and Silk—which, alas! would Never Fly"	[91]
Professor Myers in his "Skycycle"	[93]
How the Earth Looks when Viewed from a Height of One Mile. (Photographed from a Balloon.)	[96]
Mme. Carlotta Steering a Balloon by Tipping the Foot-Board	[100]
"In Spite of all their Skill these Indians Found Themselves Presently Lifted into the Air, Canoes and all"	[103]
Mme. Carlotta Calls for Assistance from Another Balloonist Three Miles Away	[107]
A Balloon-Picnic at the Aëronauts' Home	[112]
"Stevens Came Down once with a Parachute Two Miles out in the Atlantic Ocean—and was Promptly Rescued"	[119]
The Rescue of the "Oregon's" Passengers	[132]
A Pilot-Boat Riding out a Storm	[138]
River-Buoys on the Bank for the Winter	[145]
"Big John" Steering a Boat Through the Lachine Rapids	[150]
By permission of William Notman & Son
Fred Ouillette, the Young Pilot	[153]
The Indian Pilots Rescue Passengers from the Steamer on the Rocks	[156]
"Man Overboard!" an Indian Canoe to the Rescue	[158]
The Pilot, "Big John"	[162]
Hauling a Steamer up the Nile Rapids	[165]
Cutting the Line—a Moment of Peril	[167]
"Over they Went, the whole Black Line of them"	[169]
How the Engineers were Carried over to the Nile Islands	[170]
The Work of the Bridge-Builders. A Tower of the New East River Bridge. This Photograph also Illustrates the Narrow Escape of Jack McGreggor on the Swinging Column	[175]
"There was Pat, fast Asleep, Legs Dangling, Head Nodding, as Comfortable as you Please"	[179]
"The Iron Street Looked Delicate, not Massive"	[184]
Warming Their Lunches at the Boiler-fire	[186]
A Strange Way to go to Meals	[186]
"Its Mascot Kitten, Curled up there by the Ash-Box"	[189]
Riding up on an Eighteen-Ton Column	[191]
On the "Traveler." Hoisting a Strut	[195]
Walking a Girder Two Hundred Feet in Air	[203]
Burning Oil-Tanks	[210]
"Snyder, White as a Ghost, Raced Ahead of the Fire"	[213]
"The very Streets Are Burning"	[215]
Use of the Scaling Ladders	[218]
A Hot Place	[224]
A Falling Wall	[231]
A Rescue From a Fifth Story	[234]
At Full Speed	[239]
"Into the Street of Fire, Between the Two Piers, Steamed the Big Fire-Boat, Straight in, with Four Streams Playing to Port and Four to Starboard, all Doing their Prettiest"	[243]
Gallagher's Rescue of a Swede from the Burning Barge	[245]
Saving the Men of the "Bremen"	[250]
Fire-Boats Working on the "Bremen" and the "Saale"	[253]
"As they Shoot toward the Man Hanging for the Catch from the Last Bar"	[259]
"Four Elephants was Enough for any Man to Leap Over"	[267]
Circus Professionals Practising a Feat of Balancing	[279]
Through a Paper Balloon at the End of a Great Feat	[289]
How the Lioness was Captured on the Open Prairie	[295]
Man in Cage with Lions	[301]
Beginning the Training	[305]
Coming To Close Quarters	[307]
The Lion Destroys the Chair	[308]
The Tamer's Triumph. Reading his Newspaper in the Lion's Cage	[310]
Bianca Rescues Bostock from "Brutus"	[315]
Bonavita's Fight with Seven Lions in the Runway	[320]
"Rajah's" Attack upon Bonavita in the Runway	[331]
The Tiger "Rajah" Kicked by the Quagga	[334]
Putting the Tiger "Rajah" Again upon the Elephant's Back	[337]
A Royal Bengal Tiger	[345]
Young Dupont Working to Save the Powder-Mill	[351]
Effects of Dynamite Exploded under Water	[354]
The Explosion in the New York City Tunnel	[356]
"Everything was Blown to Pieces"	[361]
"He went to Work Throwing Water on the Burning Boxes"	[365]
"A Swift, Heavy Car was Plunging toward the Open Door"	[372]
"He Knew that a Second Explosion might Come at any Moment"	[375]
"A Place where Yellow Eyes Glare out of Deep Shadows"	[379]
At the Throttle	[385]
"They Struck the Mississippi Bridge at Full Speed"	[390]
"As the Drivers began to Turn I Jumped on the Cow-Catcher"	[397]
A Record-Breaking Run	[401]
"Drawn by the Idea of its Going so Blamed Fast and Being so Strong"	[409]
"Convicts had Revolvers all Right that Trip and Denny Threw up his Hands"	[413]