Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-18

words with an honorable collective trads'
vanity!
The result was five men killed in 1900.
Now, last Friday, there fell the first VIC
tim of the series of 1907, though the actual
painting has not yet begun. He was a kind
OF foreman. climbing about. looking over
from point trihe below the third plat!
form, struck twice going down, DETECTING
his fall slightly; yet his body sank almost
fve feet into the earth CT a flower beds
beside the southeast pile. When the jelly
like mass was taken out of the hole 1t had
made, 1t was seen that the lower end of his
right leg tibia, or shin bone, had been
forced through the sole of his foot! Ws-
Yet he was man of tower. experience
having worked on the painting jobs OF
1888 and 1900. Two-thirds Of the men now
ready at the foot Of the monument have
had the same experience.
"Glad to Be Back"
I'm glad to be back on the quiet steady
six months job-two coats this ,imew said
one Of them. 'Tt Is charming up there The
sensation Is fascinating, I assure you.
was never so happy as during those three
months OF 1900 One Is alone in the de-
around One hears no sounds. All ID
peacew
Yes, but goodbye to Saturday even
day diversion! Got to keep our stomachs
In frst-class condition. When the digestion
Is on. the eye II not keen and the nerves
are shaky. would not 60 I'D II felt the
slightest pain in the hairi 49, -
Yes we've got to measure the wine We
put IN our water, was the general agrees
ment. Half the men who fell in 1900. they
remember, did so from foolhardiness just
after lunch hour, when Dutch courage,
born of the French artisans invariable red
wine. LED them to incautious doings.
"And-the others2" asked.
A grizzled old fellow in a long white
smock shrugged his shoulder and crooked
his neck non-committally.
THE smell of paint for some" he said.
And the high winds that blew around the
tower. At the top 1t Is nearly always blow
ing terriflcally. That big spire shaft sways
two yards To some it gives sickenins
feel it-they are walking about the plat
forms-and two yards, even, is little in pro-
portion to that height, but when you sit
hundred Of the 100000 rivets, there will
come sudden 'goneness-then look out
my children, shut your eyes ano pull you're
selves together!
Of thirty. II remember well the storm Of
1900 when two OF the copains went down,
down-Dieu! I see them! The storm camS
on black and angry. Great drops struck our
faces, binding our eyes. Lightning flashes
played all around US. We could smell the
electricity! 1t made US nervous The thun-
der was something awful The tower was
struck again and agein!"
And you painters7' asked.
I'VE just held on where we were"
He stopped awkwardly. 1t IL unlucky to
talk such things The talk threw a cold"
as the French say. The young painter
gave himself countenance" by getting
busy with a rigging. The old grizzled one
spoke up to cheer them, Frenchmen being
mercurial, responsivei
IVA done, go to, my children, II Is a good
Job, six months of sure work. quiet and
peaceful, with high pay and much consid-
GRAFTON from the BOSSES in the pure air up
there 1t will do us all good to our healthA
quot, like a summer In the mountains!"
STERLING HELLO.