The evening world., 1905-09-29
vi FLY GOT HIS
TRAINING ON B. R. 7.
After Long Standing on One
Foot in Crowded Cars W k
ing Up the Outside of Flat
iron Building Came Easy.

Riding on one foot on the packed
cars of the B. r. T. Is the strenuous
training which developed John Garrick.
1.-The Human Fly" who has been as
tonishing New Workers. and patrons of
the ~rubberneck wagons by running up
and down the Flatiron Building walls
with as much ease as the ordinary
human being walks along the streets.
Garrick uses no hooks, nothing but
hands ready to grapple and feet en-
cased in a pair of ordinary shoes whic[l
are old enough to be Timber. Although
he has been running up and down the
walls of the triangular building at
Twenty-third street and Broadway for
a couple Of months experimenting the
placing of awnings, 1t is only recently
he hos been noticed by the tArongs that
pass below.
Its because It's Just recentlr I hav
come down low enough for the man
on the street 10 see me- he explained
to-day when finally captured by an
Evening World reporter to-day as no
was airly promenading UP the wall
from the ninth floor.
1t was no Easy Job to catch Garrick.
When the reporter arrived at the Flat
iron Building he saw the human fly
breezlly sliding along the cornice seven
floors above. HI wasn't wearing the
usual bel, and rope That cleaners affect
when they parade the window ledge, and
he didn't remain in any one place a
minute.
Hard to Capture Him.
The reporter took to ne elevator, out
when he reached he seventh floor 3ai-
rick had toed and frgerd his way -
the tenth floor and was frightening the
life out of a sweet young thug who
had been pounding a typewriter "4icn
1.-THE wall-climber stoppedVappIrent!y
from nowhere-onto her WINDOW luge.
1t took considerable more ~manoeuvring
before the ny was finally '.'rherrd..
Garrick Is of medium height, stock
Of shoulders, unprepossesslng oI appear
laad, twenty-six years ago, and has
been a sailor, steepletack. aeronat
and wall-climber. With y pretty httle
wife. a fou~r-year-old daughter and an
street, Brooklyn. Yesterday his wife
and children came over to New York
to witness for the first time some OF
his aerial ~promenading.
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Garrlck doesn't mind the nigh life he
IS eadin or at least he says he doesnt l.
He SAYS he doesn't think OF the dan
ger, but only of the details OF his ,Joo'
lust as n business man hGirrying along
broadway thinks over the points of
some deal without having to direct
every footstep he takes. The climber
mas a strain Of quaint philosophy about
II all. For Instance:
Lou Ae ExataIns IL.
Some people cam, climb up a little
vay without their feet growing bigger
| with every step. Why. some of them
get such swelled feet while climbing
that they COULDN'T, stand safely on
a s!xteen-inch plank. Ny feet never
seem to swell as l climb. and that's
the secret OF my being to do It,"
Just to demonstrate how easy 1t was.
! GarrIck swung out of the ninth-story
| window, where the sheer wall Is broken
by bricks projecting an inch and a
quarter. With hands upthrown TO
catch above and toes resting lightly on
the bricks, he skipped lightly up one
| story and hen came back.
The Fuller people In the building
don, like mo to do this, because It Is
attracting too much attention" he re-
marked. "Tha rubberneck autos are
| showing me as one OF the Inducements
TO ride nov The reason I skip around
IN this manner instead of going inside
is that I have to inspect all the avn
ings. and the elevators are too slow
trouble fro mthe inside when you can
run right up to 1t from the outside like
The trick Is nothing new to me, for
In addition to this building / have run
aro.nl on the wall, Of the ProduCS