The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-10-18

George Seigman. q lineman of the West
ern Union company, fell from telegraph
pole on Saturday and had his leg broken.
The life of lneman is laborlous and
dangerous one ana ut times entails great
h ardshjp and exposure In Philadelphia
the Western Union company has five men
whose whole duty is to repair damages 10
the line in or within few miles OF the city.
One of these is George Riley who went TO
sea for eleven wears Of his life and who has
been in the employ of the company forthe
past fifteen years. In speaking OF acci'
dents Ia telegraph Wcrk yesterday, he
said: :,
There Is some danger of course. in line
work, but az rule il can be avoided III one
is cuol headed and careful. The trouble
with most men is tnat when they get accus-
toned TO climbing they become careless
and reckless and sometimes get bad falls
The only man Of our line that has been
killed in my time was thrown TO the ground
by the breaking OF cross-bar. There are
very narrow escapes though. have
clip,bed 0 pole that / thought wss sound
and found when near the tor that u was
soft and rotten. 0nce ! fell about twelve
feet, and only saved myself from falling 10
the ground By grabbing some wires. In
this city the company has about MY - les
that are from seventy 10 one hundred feet
nigh. Fortunately we used TO climb these
like all the rest, bat OF late years the mon
sters are fitted with iron steps and going up
them is nearly as easy as walking up-stairs.
The steps were sdopted because the poles
are valuable and the climbing made holes
In them and caused them 20 be exposed -
the weaker. Opposite McKeon, Bower d
Ellis building, al Tenth and Msrkef.
stands one OF these poles. It's eigb y
feet high. Formerly we had either TO
climb this pole OF 70 get 70 " rom IA
roof. TIE Jump from the mAnssrd roci 10
the fourth cro.s-bar Was fully i've ieet A1n
the cross bar seventy feet sbGv. the ground
was only three ard halt inches broad.
You cal imagine that this was sfvong
foothold for such jump and yet We never
missed il. The jump back TO the roof wss
somewhat more dangerous there being, .
space VI only sixteen inches 70 land on auo
A wall 70 bump against j took The jump
several times but liked Il less and lees 81
TIE best and boidest climber know j.
Dirt Penn Of Baltimore. He bas elm bed
OH noies that rroks under him. but Ike q
cat. be always falls on bis feet- he oOn =
90 eDT monkey-vrench % others 90 ~
getting out The rs inch boiis tbst fasten
Inc cross-bars % the pole, but pale them
ami ~ kic.s them OFT. A cl.mbsr's ostiit
l. rsDs1aiIy . pair Of ciimbinf-irons. 0 ft1
~ r.fnf.er. II 5rcak wire with AID q section
al wirs-say Ten poonts. havs sen Hsnn
Climb . forty Z Te-f00t pole with one hun
drsd ard sirfv p0uDdF - Eirs thrgv1 OYER
his shoflfar james Grace. also llneroa1
Wa the Only olner man Fho couq ciimD
With this ~eirtt.
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rbenevsr the-r "a srytlinf wrong Or the
Iine rs A. arui 10 "a Il. OR disfric- 81
teuds tom BaiiimCrs " jerry ttiy- d.
there are Hremsn e. I'll important points
uho Do the l1rsl repairing. Iio sou eftf
knou whr TIE neatInc rEiirOaf NUMBER
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