The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-07
JAMES ANTHoNY'S FEAT
SAVANNAH ROY PAINTS "I902~
HIGH on TECH. STEEPLE.

HIGH ON
For His Deed of Daring Young An
thony Has Been Suspended and
VIII BE Tried by the Faculty To-
day-He Has Been Guilty of Doing
Something which seemed ImpOssi-
BILE and VIII Therefore Doubtless
lie Expened-The Deed the Result
of Class Rivalry.
Atlanta March "a Savannah boy,
James Anthony of the senior class at
the archaeological School, climbed to
the ton of the tallest steeple of the
main building and there printed on the
slate roof in white letters the figures
1902 For this act of daring young
Anthony has been suspended. and will
be. tried by the faculty at a meeting
tomorrow.
James Anthonys feat was accom-
.plished Wednesday afternoon. but it
was not until this morning that Pres
ident Hall managed to place the guilt
for the glarlng white figures on the
roof that can easily be read four or
FIVE blocks off. Anthony's classmates
are inclined to regard the young man
as a hero. None of the members CT
the class will discuss the matter, and
Capt. Lyman Hall, president of the
school says that he apprehends no
trouble.
None of the members of the class
will talk about the matter, and the
greatest interest is centered in the
meeting of the faculty tomorrow aft
ernoon. 1t is not known whether young
Anthony will be permitted to appear
before the faculty members. He does
not live in any of the dormitories, but
boards outside the school limits, and,
according TO the members of the facul-
ty, the fact that he was on the campus
after night adds to the gravity of the
offense
Recently there has been great rivalry
between the apprentice Middle. junior
and senior classes, as to which class
could put the year the class would
graduate the highest on the steeple Of
the school. The steeple is fully ninety
feet from the ground and about
twenty feet below the pinnacle are
several small windows. 1t is a difficult
matter to even reach these windows,
but the junior classmen succeeded in
getting painted on the windows, 1903.
The senior men, however. We're not
satisfied and young Anthony decided
he could go even higher. He scaled
the steeple to the very pinnacle and on
the black slate roof painted the sym
Dol of his class i'm bold letters. Just
how he accomplished the feat is not
known. Nobody knows how he man
aged to get so high. 1t is dangerous to
make such a climb with ladders. The
slate room is almost perpendicular and
is very slippery, but Anthony made the
trip with a paint bucket and brush.
He went up and down safely. and
next morning the students were great
ly excited when they saw the glaring
letters on the topmost point OF the
steeple. Nothing else was discussed
during the day. and SO interested did
the students become that the faculty
took hand ana discovered the trouble.
what Is Needed at the Tech.
President Lyman Hall gave out 4
statement to-day regarding the need
Tor additional funds with which to
complete the new building and install
machinery. Among other things Capt.
Hall said: THE experimental labor
atory building which was completed
en- Jan. /. was intended to contain the
governmental laboratory. the electrical
engineering machinery and the draw
ing department. On account of the
heavy expenses toward finishing the
two new buildings all the available
funds were used up and nothing car
be done toward equippng the labor
atory until means are provided. Some
machinery has been donated. but the
expense Of freight and installment
cannot be met unless friends of the
school come to the rescue.
Estimates have been made on the
installment of the machinery and the
equipment of the new building. ana
$4,000 is the minimum amount suf-
ficient to do the work. 1t seems pity
that the leading technical school of
the South should be in crying need of
$4,000, when an institution in the
North would simply have to make its
wish known. 1t seems also pitiful that
the school should have to make eff
forts to secure this small sum in in
dividual donations when every breeze
that is waited from the North brings
thousands from Northern phlanthro-
pists for technical education of the
coiored race