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Show Young Boy Performs Wonderful Feat That Compares With Blondin's Best A lad about 35 yours of age, whoso name coulJ not bo learned, created awe among several employees iu (ho testing room of tho city engineer's offico on (he fifth floor of the City 'md County building Saturday by one of tho most daring feats over witnessed at the building. Ue had been into the juvenile ju-venile court, across tho hall .juBfc opposite op-posite tho testing room, and was wait ing m the 11:11 1 lor a companion, ! Tho window in tho hall was open, J and, apparently for his own aiuuso-I aiuuso-I ment and with" absolutely no four, ho e)imbed out of tho window ami onto tho stono coping beneath il. and walked on tho coping, whieh is not more than six inches wide, a distance of ten feet or more to an open window in tho testing room, crawled through 1 the window and calmly asked one of tho workmen please to lot him out jnlo the hull again. The men in the room wore siuuned at tho feat of tho youngster and held their breath during the time he was in his most dangerous position, expecting expect-ing every instant (0 soo him lose his loothold and fall to tho pavement below. be-low. When he was safely inside tho room 0110 of tho men asked him if he was not afraid of falling when ho was on tho coping. lie replied with the least concern imaginable: "No. I wouldn't be afraid lo jump down to tho ground from there." The boy was let out into tho hall through tho door and disappeared bo-lore bo-lore anyone could ascertain his name Tho daring of the lad can bo appreciated ap-preciated when it is tnken iuto consideration consid-eration that tho window from which ho made his mid-air walk is on tho fifth floor of tho Citv and Countv building and tho coping on which he walked is only six inches wido and that (here was nothing to which ho might hold. h |