New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-18
THE PERILS or STEEPLECLIMBLNG
Eron 1,ha Cincinnati Enquirer.

"The longer You live the more YOU find
out, remarked Mr. 10 WESTON the steep,e-clmber to
Gently which taught me something IL was a curious
one You WAS top OF ct. PaUps spre. in Spring
st. We had rugged ropes TO remove the panks OF the
scaffOdiDg The way do that is to fasten block
post or Tree on the other se OF the Street and another
to steeple and splice ends OF the rope together
make endless rope OF 1t. had tied the Lass planA
tine rope, and II was going down. wore handkerchief
end OF II and IL caught on the removing rope and
wrapped around It, was Immediately caught up, glss
tho handkerchief ana then my beard passing into me
block. Now, II had had assistant In the street BE-
low ne would have noticed the plank stop when wa
wrong above he would nave pulled on the rope Then
should have been choed 70 death by my handkerchief.
and my beard and part VI my face would have bsen
of Persons III the street below would have noticed per
haps. that was very quiet but they would lot lave
suspected that was hanging By the neck.
That pull stretched me eighteen inches. As soon rs
realized tue trouble reached below, aud taking hold
rope pulled back ON 1t until my handkerchief oas
OF the Sleeve ana dropped onto me hooks or the ea
fold below. could barely touch them with my feet
called TO freneny VINO was on INC other sae o. re
dent, and told aim how it occurred Neither OF US viii
wear handkerchieIs around our neeks again wGen We
are about such jobs Wewere about 40 feet above tue
What is tho highest you have ever Climbed p sskeds
bystander.
Three hundred feet. During the Centennial ! wn
engaged to place streaner on the top OF st. Paalt
Cnurcn, in Fourthst. got up there ABOUT nneel
feet long fastened it the Dig hand and flag to it
had truck on Top OF che pole, and climbed up 70
that ana stuck hshngpOe IN the truck and stood On
top OF the mast tAen 800 feet above the pave
ment Of Fourtn-st. BY means vi the hshngPoe yOl
steady yourself anywhere you can stand Al all "
you Only pu. your hand something tOleraoy
ste0dy. Even II you only touch your nHscr 10 pole
something OF that sort II VIII Leip y0 :"
"Do you only work in CINCINNATI
"AO am sent for from different parts OF the county
around here The way We have OF ascending tai elil
neys would interest You We put up ladder and g
up the top, where asten IL by rope passed aoaai
the chimney. In tying the rope leave loop ID IL lof
the bottom Of tine next ladder. BY this time my asss
has brought another LADDER up, which pass through
tue loop until the bottom rests firmly the rs laddeL
Then walk up that ladder VITA the help OF anctles
rope passed around the chimney. No matter the 20
der leans away from tue chimney 10 either sa
rwg lit my right hand, working the rope up Ter
the lett hand and foot, depending Tor ste@onosys
all the time on the rope. When reach tHe wy ~
the ladder draw Il close to the wall by pulling on ~
rope and tie il there BY wOrng the rope up 20 Una.
higher the top OF the ladder on The opposite s
OF the chimney you arc euabled to tArow the "egut
each ladder on the chimney, ana any welgIt on
der Is strain on the chimney not on the ladeI an
"Our men, when they are new 10 the Wofh, never n
They hold ON mighty tight The only uouOe We ~.
with them is about the tools. They are apt 10 la
projecting cOrnioes, or other such tempting Pess-
where rope sometimes catches heavy bar a0u -
it down into the street Ii one OF those tools ssrus
man below it would go clean through nIn WY. -
man dropped heavy chise with blade TWO ln, 20
broad, from the Cathedral sDre one day. lts.ueA.S
heavy Oist which lying below, and the oaae ss
Through both umbers. Where would man nave w.
II he had stood beowP