Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-28

TF you were a pretty girl and an
other pretty girl dared you, would
- you don a natty sailor boys uni
form of the musical comedy. not naval,
variety
And would you climb fire escapes
and ladders to the top of an unfinished
ten-story building
And. when you had arrived at the
top would you make your way
perilously out on a steel beam, $50 feet
or more over the sidewalk, there to
shake hands with the other girl While
a photographer snapped your picture
Would you, on a dare?
That is what Eldred Gilmore and
Inez Ragan of the Burbank stock COM
pany did yesterday loon. The build
ing selected for the climb was the
Kerckhoff structure at Sixth and Main
streets, and the exploit was witnessed
by several hundred persons from the
streets below and from the windows of
the Pacific Electric building across the
street.
cIubmen Cheer Girls
The girls were roundly cheered for
their hardihood and not a few of the
cheers came from the windows of the
exclusive Jonathan club, across the
street. The hazardous climb was
made at the noon hour, just when the
club rooms were crowded, and II
didn't take those clubmen long to dis
cover that something was happening.
They heard the cheers from the street
and a minute later every available foot
of window space was occupied. The
Jonathan club windows are considera-
bly, lower than the top of the Kerckhoff
structure, but they still presented a
good view of the climbers. From some
where, somebody dug up pair of field
| glasses and was almost mobbed by the
crowd, each man evidently wanting to
use those glasses himself. The girls
took it all as a joke, however. The
audience didn't rattle them. They
We're used to audiences. Neither did
the height make them dizzy.
once they had made their way out
on those slender beams they seemed
to enjoy the sensation. and the photog-
rapher was requested to snap them
not once but in a number of poses.
Perched high above the street, where
the sound of the hurrying traffic be-
low came only as a distant rumble,
Inez Ragan pirouetted on one foot,
shading her eyes with her hand and
gazing earnestly into the distance.
Looking for the Fleet
I'm looking for My Yankee Sailor
Boy with the fleet" she announced.
THAT fleet now is on the high seas
and 1 ought to be able to see it from
here"
Joseph Montrose, who was peaking
through his camera, raised his head
to grin his appreciation.
"You can't see the high seas, dear,
rejoined Eldred Gilmore, the girl who
wouldn't be dared. "You can't even
sing the high Cs," she continued
sWeetly.
Miss Ragan was crushed temporarily,
but she evened up the score later on.
Prominent in the windows of the
Jonathan club was a chubby appear
ing man of councilmanic build, and
almost entirely bald. Miss Ragan saw
him. She smiled. So did the bald
headed clubman. He couldn't help it.
Then she turned to Miss Gilmore
Look, dear" she said. THAT man
over there is smiling at you. Do you
know him." And then. as though it
was an afterthought, she went on;
"Oh. yes. I didn't recognize him at
first. He is your younger brother
isn't he?"
Joe Montrose interfered to prevent
further hostilities and soon the barom-
eter again indicated fair weather,
| The girls We're photographed in a
dozen different poses; standing with
hands Joined on a steel beam. pro-