Word: steeplejack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roussil, a war veteran who supports his wife and one-year-old child by working as a part-time steeplejack and carpenter, .was not too much disturbed. Said he: "I guess I'll just leave it there for now. It seems to have a nice home." By week's end it looked as though the hubbub had won his Family Group a more promising home. An art dealer offered to put the statue up for sale in his gallery...
Were there such men left in England? The advertiser, John Henry Eserin, managing director of a London steeplejack firm, doubted it. He had long been growing discouraged over the apathy of Britain's steeple jacks ; the good climbers were too old, and the young ones too unwilling to face the hazards of their calling. But within two days after the Times ad, Eserin received applications from 1,500 adventurers willing to scale the heights for $40-$60 weekly. They included a former submarine officer, David Lewis, who had tired of his sedentary office job (see cut), an archeologist...
...With him Kendall brought a picaresque legend: a Yorkshire miller's son, he had run away to sea at 14, made $5,000 helping police raid opium dens along China's Yangtze River, run a waterfront cabaret in Shanghai. Eventually he ended up in Philadelphia as a steeplejack. Later he went to work for Philadelphia's Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. He rapidly rose to Budd's representative at France's famed...
...halyard of the flagpole atop Richmond's Central National Bank building was hopelessly snarled. To untangle it, bank officials last week hired an itinerant steeplejack named Lawrence Lawson, who was living at the Salvation Army shelter. Steeplejack Lawson...
Photographers rushed up to get the picture (see cut). Then, while thousands watched from adjacent buildings and from below, two Richmond steeplejacks went up with a block & tackle, fastened a rope to the dangling man. They lowered Steeplejack Lawson to the roof. The halyard remained twisted. It could stay that way, for all Steeplejack Lawson cared...