Show STEEPLE CLIMBER HAS NERVE eats and Is photographed feet above ground john F P hassler of philadelphia 0 a steeple climber startled the residents of this town by calmly standing on top of the cross of st ignatius church feet above the ground and eating a generous slice of water melon which he had carried up with him says a dispatch from kingston pa after completing this feat he stood upright on the crosa cross and had his pic pie ture taken in that position by a photographer to on the ground below hassler ascended by throwing and binding a series of ropes about the spire and working them up one above the other in his perilous jour ney until he had gained the top he Is a young man and has been in the business several years and never had an accident people consider it a dangerous occupation cu said hassler but if one exercises care it la Is not dangerous if a man Is easily frightened he should never attempt to climb a steeple but it if he feels that he Is quite as much at home standing on the top of a cross with a foothold of six inches as he Is on the ground then he will make a success it requires a cool head elastic muscles and steady habits |