Crowd Vainly Demands an Encore to His Times Square Aerial Act.

Harry Houdini, the handcuff king, who is appearing at a local vaudeville theatre, Hammerstein’s Victoria, did a new stunt yesterday. He permitted himself to be bound and padlocked to an iron standard on the top level of the Heidelberg Building, opposite the Times Building, at noon yesterday, and succeeded in releasing himself in full view of several thousand persons in Times Square and a motion-picture camera located on the same platform with him.

It took about eight minutes to get the rope untied—it was a “surcingle tie,” and took in his legs—but the fetters were an easy matter. To prove that it was all real the rope was thrown down into Broadway and gathered up by the strongest of a mob of small boys.

The police prevented a second exhibition, which it was proposed to make on a fire escape on the Victoria Theatre.

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