Show TIlE THE HUMAN FLY f RE REMARKABLE lI EXPLOIT OF OP A AWNING AWN WN- WN JA ING G HANGER WHO WIlO CLIMBS TALL BUILDINGS Witnessed by Gaping Multitude He Ascended J and Descended the Towering Towering Tow Tow- ering Wife Flatiron Wife and Children Child ren rea Among mong Nervous Spectators There is a man who climbs the outer walls of the highest buildings and who uses neither rope tackle nor scaling sealing sealing seal seal- ing ladder This man does not tell o of f hs h's daring feats nor has he a press pres s agent to exploit his dizzy achievements achieve achieve- ments meats He performs this work in view w of gaping multitudes who cheer an and d shudder as this man goes up sheer shee r walls digging his tough and nimble toes oes into the interstices of or the stone catching a cornice or a window si si 1 1 and chinning himself up and ani doin doing g other most venturesome acrobatic M. M s 1 j I ti ji sI r 6 f 6 Fps E 1 THE FLATIRON BUILDING feats The name nama of this man is John Joh n Garrick and he is called The Human Human Human Hu Hu- man Fly Ply His occupation Is hanging hangin g and removing awnings To do Ills his work he simply walks walls up and down the outsIde outside outside out out- side of buildings while other workmen go from story to story by means of th the e stairway or the elevator John Garrick before he took up th the e trade of awning hanging was a sailor S SHe He followed the sea from boyhood t to 0 manhood and during his service o on n sea deep-sea sailing ships he learned t to o climb and cultivated his nerve A few days ago he was engaged In i n removing awnings from the Flatiron n in New York Broadway wa was s choked holed with people watching the Human Human Human Hu Hu- man Fly at world work Incredible as 11 it i t may seem he climbed the sheer wall wal i of If that building from pavement to cornice corIce cor tor nice Ice two hundred and six eighty-six feet fee t and down again Five years ago Garrick married Naturally his wife wished him to quit qui quite t sea faring e He got employment as a an n awning hanger and In that capacity h he her e r made his climbing skill pay Though married five years his wife has never neverseen neverseen neverseen seen him at his work of scaling the outside of tall buildings until he undertook undertook un un- the removal of awnings from the he windows of the towering Flatiron building Until that time said the theady lady ady to a a. reporter I never saw himat him himat himat at the work I knew he was removing awnings from the Flatiron building so I went over to Manhattan to meet him yesterday afternoon and I tool too our jur two children Lawrence two and half years old and Hazel four years yeara old old and waited for John in front of the Bartholdi Hotel Of course I r never thought John would climb that frightfully tall building I was standing stand stand- ing hag there when one of the workmen who knows me came over and said Your husband will be with you soon hes he's Just coming from the ninth story now I thought he meant John Jahn would be coming by the elevator so so I didn't look up to the windows The workman told me to look up 1 I did and I 1 nearly fainted for there was my husband with his hands on the sill Bill nf of a n m window i rm nn on thA Vio h. nInth Vi ett iT and his toes in the grove groves b between t-e t th th t stones I grew dizzy and wanted to turn away Something held me fascinated though and I watched him coming down in a sort of cross criss-cross fashion as quickly as a man would run down downa a ladder I said to Lawrence Theres your papa and the baby laughed and I clapped his hands with joy He didn't understand the danger but Hazel did and she began to cry I couldn't look any longer and I turned my head away but I could hear the noise of the he great crowd that was watching him I looked again thinking he must be on the sidewalk by this time imagine my horror when I saw he had started climbing upward after I had turned turned away and was then just up to the he me cornice He looked like Ilke a little black fly against the white stone He waved one hand and then began move down I watched him abut sometimes sometimes some- some times imes closed my eyes when It seemed that hat he had made a misstep The crowd was so great that when he swung down to one of the store awnIngs awnings awn awn- I ings I c could uld only see him drop off oft and disappear into the maze of men gathered gathered gathered gath gath- ered about I |