Careers of Danger and Daring

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]

THE STEEPLE-CLIMBER

I

IN WHICH WE MAKE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF "STEEPLE BOB"

DURING the summer months of 1900—what blazing hot months, to be sure!—people on lower Broadway were constantly coming upon other people with chins in the air, staring up and exclaiming: "Dear me, isn't it wonderful!" or "There's that fellow again; I'm sure he'll break his neck!" Then they would pass on and give place to other wonderers.