The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-01
.F|vE-STORY FALL
D|DN' 7 FEAZE HIM
= Year : Old, Emulating Feats
Of Firemen, Drops Through
Tenement Clothes Lines.
FOUR BROKE UN DER Him
Neighbor Rescues Hint Ain
Hurt; l Could Do 1t Again.
His Comment.

New York, July 3l.-The conven-
tional hero of melodrama whose life
hung by single thread was only a
humdrum here compared to seven
year-old 1sidore Bloom, of % Market
Street, whose life hung successfully
from five clotheslines in Hof-to-
courtyard fall yesterday srnoon.
-Four of the five clotheslineS which
marked the periods in his fall weren't
as good as they should have been.
and broke under him. If it hadn't been
for the tifth-but thereby hung the
tale-and Izzy
Isdore thought he'd play fireman
late yesterday afternoon. so he stepped
out upon the fire escape from a win
dow in his home on the fifth floor of
the building, and started up a small
ladder to the roof. to perform heroic
rescues While rescuing non-exist-
ent damsel from a place of peril in
the cornice under ...e roof lzzy lost
his balance and fell into some very
real peril. In moment he saw
the world upside down.
Mrs. Louisa Levina, of 100 Madison
Street, just across the airshaft whose
eleven year-old son. Louis, had been
killed in a similar fall two weeks ago,
saw the boy falling, and. feeling that
he would be dashed to death. tainted
at her window.
But instead Isdore tested the
strength of the clothesline stretched
from his fifth floor window. So in
passing he grabbed it with one hand.
reversed his invented position. and
hung on. Only for moment, how
ever: then the line sagged, stretched.
and broke, and Isidore continued his
travels.
There was another clothesline on
the fourth floor, and Isidore made it
his second resting place. This line also
broke 1sidore screamed and continued
his descent 4he clothesline on the
third floor was beneath him, so he
reached out for it and grabbed It.
There his father, Herman Bloom. at
scream. saw him. AS Father Bloom
reached out the third t.oor window
he saw the clothesline sag, tremble,
and snap, and his boy vanish beneath
the window.
But Icy grabbed the clothesline on
the second floor, that also broke. but
Providence was steadfast, and the last
rope. spanned from the first floor, prov
ed staunch and strong.
There Julius Gessof. who lives on the
first floor of the house next door, reach
ed out and rescued him by the nape
Of the neck. Gessof lifted the boy into
his fiat and began to feel for bruises
and broken bones.
CAV, let me go!" cried Izzy "I'm
not hurt"
Then he broke away and ran out
into the hall and down to the street.
There he met his father and mother,
both OF whom We're frantic with grief
and lamenting him as one that was
dead. When they saw the lively young
ghost running towards them, they al
most made him real ghost in the en-
thustasm Of their embraces,
Let me down." gasped Izzy. Tn
not hurt. T could do 1t again
Nevertheless, the parents were sure
that some bones must be broken, anc
insisted on calling doctor from Gou'
verneur Hospital. DR.. Eberle after 6
minute examination. discovered one
tiny scratch in Izzy's face and q Sigh
abrasion under one arm, where the las
rope had caught him. Isidore himsel
cut short the physicians examination
of him:
stop. doctor. you only tickle me-,
he said ut wasn't a real fall, ! liked
| it."
When 1zzy was awakened by a re
porter who wanted to question MN las
night he was very angry
81 never saw the like" he said. :"
| ONLY fell"