Coryell Bartholomew, the Jackson aeronaut, proposes to go over the falls of Niagara on a trapeze attached to a bar between two balloons. The contrivance resembles a huge dumb bell. The connecting shaft is 100 feet long, and each sphere is 40 feet in diameter, leaving 20 feet between them. The contrivance will be ballasted so as to keep from sailing into the air as it floats down the river, but when the precipice is reached the ballast will be gradually released. At the bottom of the falls Bartholomew expects to sail away. If no obstacles develop, the trip will be made in August, 1896.
I’m sorry to say I can’t find any mention on the web of Mr Bartholomew or his trip…
[tags]Ann Arbor Register, July, 1895[/tags]