For a while, that incident had put a damper on men riding in the cage, but now it was time-dimmed and half forgotten. Besides, in 1936 Spotts had put an emergency brake on the cage just in case such a thing were to happen again. So … when Gus Schramm, Adolph Valdez, Howdy Peterson, Alfred Johnson, and Norman “Happy” Anderson boarded the cage early on the morning of June 2, they were jostling and joking and unconcerned.
