Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-05-29

It's all glared over-roof, pole, caves. wires,
pins and tnsulators, the skyiights You go out
you hang onto-and you feel the ice melting
onaerne8th your fingers, Tor your hands ge.
blows from the Nor'ard after a sleet-storm, on
/ ssven-story room
That's the weather when lineman has to
| foot acrost your door sill on the solid earth,
| that's the very day the linemen have to crawl
! In the air, balancing and holding of themselves
ior lle,s sake and the sake Of your telephone
make one misstep he'd be to pieces on the pave
ment before you could say: "'rher's linemanr'
| There 9 no hope for you ii once you slip. Ifyou
broke Or Its laid you up for life. Lucky for you
| Iyou knocked ed your brains out and done with.
-FOUR Wldder'Il get on better than II she got
cripple to support, her and him and the child
v HSw f shii day tell you this sssty day
reported to headquarters for any orders for the
day But thought maybe it didn't matter for
ha9 got my girl away from me. hated him.
had hated over night and hated him come
walked slong, thatway, as you'd march to music
My.hate and me kept step because of him and
Now this is the way we do It. They send us
out according to the job, and If there's four or
nve OF us, we're what you call o crew. II there's
we were a force. But a trouble man he may go
happen to him to be mending trouble some
| where's oy himself You might be q trouble
man and you might see lot of poles blowed
| o0wn-for when one goes sometimes the rest go
60 and notify the chief, and he SEND force to
| mend the trouble, but you he might send may
r re 70 some point apart to set some mischief
to pole TO guy 1t over-that's to fasten it over
| 70 another pole keep it steady and to mend
maybe you might be up to top of this pole
~ yourself alone and itmight it be it was high
pole. don't you see? and there you are.
| NOW then, this day speak of, 1 was ordered
| 70 the south End for there'd been the havoc to
pay up along there in the region of the city
| some be0utifut poles at the South End. So my
coaeI ne sent me TO pick out trouble way out
s s"n Is h tS for the wires were down
| busy-and all at once, for was going by, see
horse-car driver stop his car and point his
| turned and looked. And then see folks star
Ing and two or three they stopped, and we all
| And then see sight never saw before nor
DON knows IA care to see 1t every January
| morning neither.
1t was very high pole. I'd been up 1t, time
again 1t was all glared over with the ice, and
II shook against the wind. The wires were
Up at the top of that there pole there was
| man. I'd ought to say there huno a man, for
quick ss set eyes on him knew it was ali up
Win tnat man. 1t was a trouble man gone up
| to guy the pole over and he'd gone alone tor no
body was with him only the force to work to
gone down.
| My heart come into my mouth when I saw
that man, and my marrow froze within me
| for when looked, saw him fling his arms
mat WayLand topple When I saw him, for
| ne leu lot ARDS ON his face against the cross
arms of the poles, both arms about it, and kind
OF come together like u jack kniie-so-and
| there be hung, as helpless and senseless as the
buried dead, him eighty feet above the ground.
"Ae's dead!' cries the horse car driver. But
the conductor said:
Hes drunk
lies In q faintv' cries somebody
"He's In a ft"' says someone
he got the cramp!' heard a fellow say
| going by.
TOD nave mercy on him. says they all.
he IL drop-hell drop in minute"
1nere" says they. "Oh look at him."
ITO be C0ntinued)