Show TWO CHIMNEY BUILDERS ARE MAROONED 154 FEET IN AIR I Caught on Narrow Plank Near Top of Big Flue Tear Shirts Into Strings Pull Up Rope and I Slide to Safety New York Two mon wero held prisoners Inside the now reinforced concrete chlmnj at a steel plant af Mariners harbor S J for 6th hours the other afternoon They wore on a plank six feet long by two feet wide ton feel from the lop at the chimney which Is I64 feet high Their rescuo was effected after along a-long struggle by other employee and mOlllbors of time the department who wore called to aid In getting the men down rime prisoners on the chimney wore Harrr Towyne foreman at the job and Conned Brlol his assistant Both are export chimney builders The work had been practically I1n famed when the mon went up to do sortie cementing near lie top A ladder lad-der 168 feet long In 12 foot sections had been rigged 1111 inside the chlm icy Towyne and Brlol climbed up this at ono oclock They cemented the top or rim ot the chimney then climbed down to a scaffolding that had been built ten feet below lima top when a small ladder lad-der they had used In reaching the top dropped Towjno and Brlol began to rip lip tho flour or the scaffolding They had ripped liP all the timbers but onetho largestthe centerpiece ot the scaffold They stood on this as they dropped the last at the other boards The last plank they dropped didnt go straight to the bottom hut struck on the side at the chimney and glane lng crashed heavily Into an upright ladder some distance below the two mono Tho force or the plank snapped the ladder and the upper halt at It tumbled In a heap below The two mon found themselves marooned ma-rooned high up with ollly a plank two feet wide to stand on They cried rr sip for what seemed to them days About five oclock the other workmen around the plant walked Into the chimney ground level and heard the cries of the two prls oners News of the mens plight spread Quickly Soon a largo crowd was at the bottom at the big flue All sorts or schemes for getting them down wore advanced While the crowd was collecting among them members or a fire company com-pany the marooned men wore trying to help thomAelves They made their I I OCOr > Iylr1ILYYJYIJ shirts Into II thin tape line and for ered It lli4 feat to the bottom of tho chimney With this they drew up an Inch rope their Idea being to slide down on It en the Inside after throw I r 1 y l The Men In Turn Slid Down the Rope hig one end alit out or the top ot the chimney and having It anchored to something solid Out when they throw the end oven the top at the chimney 1t stuck In the soft concrete and would not budge either way When the mon had got the rope they thought themselves all right and dropped their shlrtmado line Their knives went with It They were nbnplusod for a minute Then they began making another line lout of their undershirts With this the drew up a fishllne then another Inch rope They successfully threw this out the top at the chimney and the end was fastened to a railroad track on the ground The men In turn slid down the rope but badly burned their hands In doing so I JItXYrrrr Y |