Show I STEEL WORKER LOST I IF HE STOPS TO L THINK OF DANGER The Thc hundreds of ot people who stop dall dally daily In their travels tra up tip anti and down Main street and gaze gazo skyward to watch tho time steel work workers rs high In the alt all on the bUildings now no In course of construction have nave been heard rd to express wonder that there timer are arc not more accidents recorded among them The men grow so po daring dann In theIr work orl that thal M they ey seem to think nothing of or walking across a beam henni a few fow Inches wide where n a single misstep would plunge c them to the tho street stroet below and In Instant instant In- In stant tant death donUt and they go about their work worl apparently unconcerned erneI like Ilko ito o ninny many squirrels They do In fact become so accustomed to tho the dangers which beset them that the they really forget Coret that there Is any danger dan- dan pcr ger nn and so IO Ion long us as they go along about their duties dillies without thinking what ml might ht happen It J mR that are art perfectly Na safe The Time moment the they stop ston to consider Just how dangerous position Is II Is however how how- ever thc they lose their confidence and trouble trouble trou- trou ble Is Jg likely 1111 to follow An Instance wherein this was Is reported from from the time hotel build build- In log ing the tle steel work orl of which Is I now up to I the twelfth story A steel 1 worker crog crossing ln a narrow beam heam some ir 10 0 feet above c tho the street was seen een to stop atop and look 1001 down dOW 1 I upon th the below helow In an I h ito h seemed to lose loso his balance amid tho those H HI I who were watching w him with bated br oath breath ath athI I gasped as aM thC they saw him topple over 01 find start toward what scorned a horrible fate The Time man threw out hl his arm a an as ho lie felt folt himself going and managed to grasp asp tIme HIP beam beneath him ns as he hp foil fell With V time the strength and a agility resulting from froni many ri-many years In sled structural work ork ho he soon shinned himself 11 anI 1 throwing his lila I leg over OYer the thC beam drew himself up crossed time tho beam and anti walked down stairs simile i- i In Ing no further Injuries than n a badly skinned arm ann Ho He went u ut itt t once to U Uc Upi e office and drew his hill time announcing to those of his fellow fel fel- low workmen who hall hail gathered to congratulate con comi- him him on his narrow and fortunate fortu fortim- name nate escape that he would bo ho on the job no more Never aguin nuin for me me he ho said Its H too dangerous I The Tho man had been employed cd In r I I high work for years and had bad been on buildings c man many time ns as high as UI an any In Salt Ial Lake balm Oily City Y though ht hI had never be before before before be- be fore had such an experience and had never seemed to realize ho how the wor work really Is IR When pressed l for Cor an explanation o of his lila fall fail and hi his determination atlon to give o o I up tho the work ork of tho the steel steel- moan man h he 11 said gald As I J stood up there and looked down I thou thought ht and amid It was the tho fir first t time I lied had ever er considered such a n thing what would happen If I should slip ip I seemed to see myself a n crushed and shapeless heap of bloody blood clothes broken hones hone and md torn flesh lying on tho the curb curious pro pro- plo pie gathered round and shuddered n a M they looked I 1 ge seemed to get et dizzy diu and In an anIn In Instant tAnt I 1 knew that I I was falling failing With Ith th the rush of or air Ah In that fraction of ot a second my mind cleared my only thought was wan to grab rab something and ana when my hand clutched time the beam I knew that I was safe eafe No 0 more for me though I T might he be beable heable heahle able ahle to go o back up liP there and work antII and antI keep on working for or years C as I hay haw In inthe the tho past palt without ever over thinking of or falling I but hut sonic nome line I might think n again aln what would happen If it I should fall nail and the tho next time I might not be bo xo so lucky The work Is safe l enough h all nil right when you OU work and dont don't think and th the pay Is good 1 but old tetra terra fIrma Onna for mine after this |