Show iAL AL PORCH DEARS I r i A CH CHARMED Lift t I t I 1 I j I tile is Rigger lUgger of the Capitol at atI I Washington and Docs Does I Daring Deeds j aHE I HE liE CLIMBED THE TUE GREAT CREAT DOME Placed Scaffold Around the Statue of Freedom lias Narrow Escape From Final Lightning Special Correspondence Washington I 1 C Coo July aAI Porch Is de the rigger of or tho Capitol Capital lie ha has hru climbed the dome domo and ana l Us has Installed a n the Ihn of Ir freedom odom land and him has cleaned ort oft that mammoth of If broome when nine nillo men out of ten would have sworn that ouch lIuch nn nil nut net WON utter utterly utterly ly Iy Impossible M Al 1 Torch Is II a I short stocky ky man torn born with a n eye eje to whom tho the word won orol fear Is In uni un unknown i known The Tho ho wonderful work hn he h bas m down lIono In the th line Ilea of nt liU business If would form torm nn on interesting Int theme for tor n II novelist l tint LInt year sear ear plat Ju t before b fou Congress lon r s tact met U It Ith h W was I decided lI by hy tho Iho architect of the t 1111 tol tal to place dace n now marble bath tub luh In i 1110 bathrooms bathrooms of ot the hon hmso o of ot en r This was the Ihl In n 11 compliance with the theR R request of nt Halo hale Unit that n a marble marblo tub lub bo hi It placed laced In position where hue his par pur particular pIla a I tuh tub had hall been for tor nearly 30 n t All the rent reat porcelain but bul th Iho t for t insisted on for tor hi his In spite nf ot the tact fact that the sennta hasI has hili I bathrooms for tor Its II numbers members A now new tub lub tuby was ordered It weighty three tuna lone and andU andt I y t U t hurt had to 10 be In place ducu through tortuous corridors only on tit halt nn Inch wider than I the tub huh the measurements ere made everyone predicted that tho the contractor would be ho unable to In set let It Into I petition but AI Al tort guaranteed to do doth doI I 1 th he work and amI he did It II ItA IIi itA i A F All ei j There lire are a n great many pee to around I t the tho hO United Capitol nho tin ho believe bi lleo that AI Al Porch tho the rigger is U 18 j t Rome pomp of them even Iven RO go to eo far tar as liS to 10 say sayI 1 I that ha ho hn has hils an nn u with mid uld Nick each mich a as Is repute to tot toI I t have had Whether thin I Is true Irue or not Al dl 1 i Porch has twice stool Mood within Ix Indies inches I jl of f death And ho to is le still auto alive On Tl Thurs nr i Nay da lest lall was visited d IA by 1 n 1 IT Irr tine thunderstorm AI Al Porch stool Moot un lui i Mer Ider the j on en the hp he east 1181 side aide of 01 the Capitol building boning n a 1 marbin r pillar ope when n 1 bolt boll nt of k thi Ih Id rebounded to the then struck the granite within six li Ix inches pf i f t hl hll hie feet It fused lUlled th the granite and an In A three thre or four tour laces caused that solid I pub tanco to blister biliter and swell so 10 that I a EL ll r Il t hJ J L t 1 t h them thero are Arr loch loda nubs nabs t nn au Inch loch high The Tho light lightning through through Iho Hie corridor of or th the nm tilt 1111 the electric wires the switch board hourel nil all out of or slip hut lul AI Al Porch woe was uninjured rho Tho workmen Inside Ineido lo dropped their tools rind tho the material which they well carrying and rushed In expecting to 10 him n a I corpse corlo Hut In hit h stood IliK Ing Ills his cigar d nr with perfect and when nuked asked If Ir he tine wn IA hurt hurl replied No not nol n a lilt hit but hilt i kinder r nervous trod 1 I 1 think I need aced Tc II a A om tC Nl ov 01 11 Laet year AI Al Porch had almost almont 1 an Idon Iden experience when lightning struck the outside 10 the olto nf ot ho the 1111 at There Ther the walla was wan trod and the 1111 minks still HIOW show but hili thorn there thornIe U Ie no us liS thorn thero U III In this tale case Torch Porch was within a ii 1 foot fool nf ot tho the spat upon which the taw holt bolt struck truck whore the Ih marks urn fiTO still Mill till In to be b tJ teen reen p Jl was unhurt I nIM the I he fin It II Is not nol stir sur surprising than tie his fellow workmen around the the believe bellevo that lie In h Ig le lightning proof Congress nt nl tho Inet r lolI I rut t that nil all o filed on nn the tho n list of nf the tho army who served nerved during the lilt Civil nr should he lie promoted ono grub tint Is to say nay Mil u II colonel on the method list iut who served during the 1111 Ovll war shall hiss hIp utter after be Je rated and pull Arch ue 1111 u a 1 brigadier 1 A Is toads made a n and so sit HI on un down Iown the line In ha or nr order order der that Hint the of ot Ill tho art nt may he h nut nUl without delay an nn lion nf nt butt hilI n million w ii m a ade deli lint Hut the Iho accounting 18 of or illo 1 trens cry ury art nr looking for foi technicalities They wont pay n a hill hili Girt fir tr 11 whisk or n a spittoon without a winding willI 1 I up tin und and un unwinding unwinding winding n II spool of ot rOil rod tape Very cry Tint nat naturally molLY under these circumstances them e gentlemen have found to II a II reason rf IIROn for div do fil dining to 10 pay retired the tho allowances which Congress has Iris nil nu They sty say that the tho officers lutes hll not tent been heen by h the senate MennIe In their higher n and unI cnn r ii lien II nn no pay a payments ments meats rail nail be he mado until until scout peseta next December D to 10 con on Irm the tho op mint This Is III a trivial hut hilt It I has han canned caked a t great deal oT il it Inconvenience to 10 several hundred worthy men and It lists has demonstrated 1 once core more morl that th alto MIO men In the Ihl accounting division of the fell fed federal emit eral government can cnn be ho over technical at tines times |