The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1918, Page 14

ae on” » MAY 28, 1918 Four Months in France rer Fly Stakes Life With the 165th Infantry : , —S | On His Finger ‘Tips When (The Old ‘‘Sixty-Ninth’) ‘The Hands of a Human Fly He Crawls Up Skyscraper HARRY H. GARDINER’S IRON FINGERS THAT CLINCH ON CREVICES IN STONE FACINGS OF Billeted in the Battle-Scarred Lorraine Sector—Moved Up to BUILDING TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1918 TUESDA AND GRIP HE USES IN CLIMBING. Gardiner Reveals Secret of His Startling Stunts in Scaling Reserve Position at ‘Camp New York’’—Shelled— ze ‘ ‘ High Walls —Great Strength Developed in Three An Artillery Duel—Into the First Line : Fingers of Each Hand Makes His Unique Trenches Under Fire. Occupation Possible. i ™ Pau OF He OR isaht THIRD INSTALMENT. By Robert Welles’ Ritchie By G rge 4 Beas VERY one will agree that one way NOT to make a living in this world e0! Z is to climb up the face of a thirty#tory building from sidewalk to ‘ Former First Lieutenant, Company I | ultimate coping, with no fire escape ladder or other adventitious Written Exclusively for The Evening World aid to scaling besides one’s fingers and toes. ery one, that 1s, except Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York . i t “ “yy.” E marched fourteen miles to a railroad station and then took , ; - hipaa ag ert faces Fly ae train for the town of L—_——. It was an eighteen-hour trip,| fis GMA land pt , who has a due sense of the honor of his profession and again we rode in the ‘side door Pullmans.” We reached our : i ne id whole heart in it, interested, several thousand New York aia in the middle of the day, and marched four more miles to an aban- law a i 1 noon bine yesterday by scaling the beetling front of the Park @oned farm house, where the company was billeted. The officers had quar ullding, and, not content with hooking his way up the sheer fa ening World.) = pirate |of the great man-made canyon wall on Park Row, he climbed the flagpole tera in cnateee farm sates ts ALOT A ‘ GAFAOINEFE | | on one of the twin cupolas and broke loose the Stars and Stripes from the ; 4 isl ned sod re ee is ed 294 ea i p “4 i | very summit of this slender perch. He did this for the benefit of the Red a of Lorr overrun by ns in a ‘ 4 , , | Cross drive; but it was all in the day’s work for Mr. Gardiner. cupied by them for over a month, All around us were i ; IN y b . the scenes of former battles. Every garden wall had For his chosen profession 1s that of scaling buildings in a way no holes punched through {t where the gallant French had | Pr Jother man has done before : : > He has treated more than four hundred high stood off the invaders. f . i 1 Page ey |dulldings in the country in this disrespectful manner tn the last four 1 Tieut, Lawrence of the Dental Corps, a brother of ’ ‘ é y | years Going up the front of them, I mean, He takes this seriously, He Major Lawrence, and I wandered through some of those ; eh, . iy | does not consider himself a mere daredevil, risking life and limb for the gardens and saw the ruin that had followed o upation. I recall seeing three little fruit trees with circles cut around the trunks at the base. The Germans had 80| | sake of the morbid curiosity of vea| z — mob standing below He believea| The ‘Professor’ was sick and it was that by climbing up the front of a| | announced that the ascension would skyscrape , he | b destroyed them for Heaven knows what reason. Then, f rei ABE epost ak yr depend [bh dane as . abe I roles ‘ak some French, | used to ask the women how they had A t 3 | © ‘Professor's’ place, as 1 could speak ¥ y 5 Mabe | age man chooses to do, he 1s giving a| The manager would not listen to me been treated during the time the country was invaded. Into their eyes ; 3 would come that God-forsaken look that told of something too terrible to i repeat. And in their arms I have seen babies they hated—their own} children, for the father was a Boche. | The country for miles around was shell-torn and dotted everywhere | with what we called “Croix de Bots,” or crosses of wood. I was out there | with Corpl. Charles Stone and Ted, Wolcott. ‘The latter had been some- what of an artist in civil life, and started sketching immediately. Charley offered the suggestions. demonstration of the hidden quail | unless I got three prominent busi- b tles in each one of us for which the| ness men to sign away a release psychologists probe with their scho-| from all responsibility 1 tools and which each of us| “I got the three signatures, went ought to master. | up two thousand feet, cut away and After the “Human Fly” had done] began to drop in the parachute, I his stunt for the Red Cross yester-| threw away the life belt, hung by day and. returning to the street, had| my legs and came down head first. “imho 5 Je auctioned off for the benefit of the| It made a hit. if I do say it myself, These crosses marke Wei Wucked walti noon) quilllan ule great mercy fund his shoes, his] Then I went {n for ballooning, of the French heroes who had tried $5 Wilke back io the rolling kitchen, trousers, his jac and his cap, he to ‘stem the German tide. Over). nait-mite away. 4 , a came to The Evening World office] an old hotel that used to face Madi- most of the crosses the blue steel] No sooner had we reached the} . : jin a raincoat and his stocking feet} son Square and took a look at the helmet of the soldier was hung. 1| kitchen than the shelling started. | and sat for an interview. Flatiron Building. A new idea thought as I looked at them once| pig and little shells dropped all i Gardiner was very particular, first) struck me. Why not climb up the in the moonlight, standing there like around us. Tommy O'Brien, who| * : . j off. to specify that the little bair-| front of the building?” silent guardians of all that ts true | was eating some of Rogan’s imperial | , . |raising business he just had com- “IT took that notion home with me and good in France, that they had] stew, dropped his mess tin and came | |pleted was not the average death-|and lay a p over it for sever not only given their lives for France, | running to me. | defying stunt such as the “Profes-' nights. ‘Then I went down and fig- but were giving their bodies to fer-| “Ljeutenant, can’t we get our guns sor” exhibits at the county fair with ured out what was necessary to do tillze it now. And every once in ®] and take a couple of cracks at those one leg over the parachute trapeze the trick. For thirty days I pre- while you would come to another | fellows?” and a Kiss wafted to the audience pared my hands by physical exer- cross, without the helmet, and writ-| “No use, Tommy, they're about six from upside down, He's done that cise, and then one day | walked up ten thereon was simply this: “Un| mites away.” too In his time, but ft 18 “small town to the Flatiron Building and scaled Boldat Allemand,” a German soldier.| “Ain't that hell?” he sald, as he stuff.” His job of peregrinating UP the front of it clear to the top, Of In the first week of March we|went back to cating. | | the face of high buildings is science | course, moved up to a larger town, still) 1 looked over our outfit then, It plain selence ae nearer the line. Here the men were | was the first time they had ever seen Grilled just enough to keep them {0 /a shell burst near them, but not one trim, and allowed much liberty, for) was nervous. You'd have thought) “Fifteen years ago { came out of a big racket in town, for me, I'd found my vocation, But first a word of portraiture With an interval of about Harry H. Gardiner. First of | be everal n sealing building rs I've ever since.” his marvellous hands, This all, So came Harry Gardiner, dare- soon they were to go up. Tommy|they had been under fire a million | PALM. OF man's hands are unique. They have! devil balloonist and parachute Baird, the bugler, alone worke¢ hard. | times. Shrapnel was tearing through THE RAGEET a development apart from the or-| jumper, into his profession, and, to The other man was sick, the tree tops, and high explosives | r ¢ dinary hand, Just as the lapidary’s| quote him once more, “It's a busi- This town, of 20,000 population I scattering up tho dirt, but our bat-| mids eE : lee ; f ; or the pianist’s. All the str asi a uess wherein you cannot make @ should judge, was trying to keep up tallon went on eating. | COM PAR (TNs f hem—and it is a surpassing strength | mistake One seeing him scale the business as usual” despite the war.| The shelling continued for two| WEAKNESS OF has gone into th irst, second and) Park Row Building is prone to agree third fingers. For therein Hes bis| with him absolutely. salvation. This scaling of buildings is 60 per ‘The muscles of these fingers stand) cent. physical energy and 40 per out in ridges just below the second| cent, mental effort, according to the ie ee eee an nae = | joints. Power is manifested tn three | “Human F All day long the little shops were hours, then we sent the wen back Vitaiie The packed with soldiers and at night, to work. They quit at 6 o'clock, At until 8.30, you could find them in 6.15 o'clock, when we were on our, cafes, drinking “ordinary wine,” that way home, 450 shells were dropped | is, wine with less alcohol in it than along the trench where we had been | f Nor does the psycho- our beer. Immoral houses, and there working, in less than twenty mine e ” |digits of each hand. Upon them logical side of it take the back- sare dite a fow tn town, were Ge-| ten. The Germund were dust a fem ur-ocrats an ureaucrats ae ee ee ale clared out of bounds, and our sen- minutes late. | weight when he ts groping and find-| “1 first learned to curb fear,” ts tries placed at the door to prevent The following day orders came for ing tiny ledges in the masonry not| the way he describes his apprentice- s fe ; . ay oa ; q mm 7 rw, ; three inches wide. The little fingers} ship, « 5 Americans from entering. us to Ko up and relieve H Company, Kaiser Has Cancelled Shoes in Germany and Chestnut Burrs Will Soon Be Ripe i Nee ihn Pialeulously (tees | learned to close my mind Here the handiwork of the German | Captain Kelley's outfit, in a sector T| A ; ; ' 4 7 " H are normal—they look ridiculous 'y | to everything except the actual work was evident, too, Many little gar-| will call S. We left the reserve With American Aviators Barraging Germany With Chestnut Burrs What small beside the developed three. | of going up the front of the building dens and fruit orchards had been position at 2.30 o'clock in the morn-| Chance Will Unarmored Flat Feet of Berlin Have?--Save the Kimonos From Thumbs don't banded iar the! T had chosen to scale. Once 1 have wantonly wrecked, and a few houses ing, but not before eixty-five au- Thi sien he 7 617) rare occasions when the “Human) closed my mind to externals"— blown up, evidently because their tomatte revolvers hiél been Issued to This Year's Chestnut ( oy and Win the hel pe py sip iee aie he uses the terms of psychology—"a Sy ‘ cies the Ge ; 'e didn’ : Ste i F pace al , thy sr some perpendicular 5 aa “ architecture didn't please the Ger- us, We didn't have any revolvers, so | BY ARTHUR (* BUGS”) BAER fea ip on some perp’ gun could be fired at my shoulder ep RETAIN ara peep eage: | surface ; and I would pay no heed to it. My The order came to go up to the Heved the day before Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing ¢ he New York Evening World.) picking We stickers out of their broken arches the allied armies will | As Jan Paderewski's fingers are| mind is a blank to everything but reserve position. It took us part| Shortly after 4 o'clock we started HE wholesale leaps that democracy is making in this war is more be putting the skids under the mitteleuropa bunk and giving the gray | the index of his art. so are Harry|the few inches of wall in front of of a day to march to it. As we ap-| up a road through a forest. As we than verified by the news that the small k kaiser has cancelled gorillas a spoonful of their own medicine with compounded inter | Gardiner's tel me. proached it, the first sign that struck approached the lines the booming of | shocs tn Germany and that a 6 and 10 cent store has finally Mysi Taree OE ARGSrEY THERAR Hips for ORATORY, AAR TEs AAT RRR THAIS th], The Physical end of it Is simple, my eye was this: |the guns in their morning “hate’| ; ~ : we jman, perhaps 6 feet $ smooth} 1 depend almost exclusively upon “Camp du New York.” commenced, Then our own artillery managed to horn into Fifth Avenue. The washstand and bureaucrats 5’ ’ | shaven, clear eyed, of only about 150] the three middie fingéte. of Gane Why they ever called it Camp New | answered back, giving five shots for | have accumulated @ robust blow just where the collar button joins the i he Lf ree, ‘Why? peands weight and forty-six years} hans, The feet are only used as # York 1 don't know, Mike Flaberty,!one. Tho first time we heard our} Miiteut, A rougie Jiluey aud punviir dime sive on the ave uf rica’s | lold, Remember that —~ forty-six P ¢ 1 vs} 8 ard o | Soi ifie Fac i of the human ma- r ue ae PTT combauy, pald. it sveo aiamiod| guns go Off we thought We hed been| avbniies indioates tat democracy ia dantior of ihe works, Crowns aclenting Kacte Apniuing to: Questions You Should) Gome analyiate of the humat knees to grasp a projection, I have Saale salad cinta alee |chine say that a man loses his su-| discovere New York. It was buried in a little | nit | will be non-reiillable like b \ jit-and-dim store on Cinco Avenuc Be Able to Answer. Liat haley discovered that the use of all the forest and the only access to it was! ‘The fursher up we went the great i ; Aveciie ; |preme grip on life and affairs at} ingers and thumb of each hand Ey cosane ot Yduok poatde” tbat J&| er tocame the din, Machine use| Coot have to call the main stem Five Avenue from now TIP hy Does a Fire Smoke More) noke from @ coal fre Is often In-} forty, These analysts have yet tO} would weaken rather than strength- Darara walkover Chesil. Vasver|ripped out thelr curse, Then you| Uc, And since the little k kalzer's subjects: have:to sacrifices thelr bro Shia Penae ihn Oihere® md Uy tie fact that thew an vhe| meet and interview Harry Gardiner.| en my grip. And were I to depend saw so much mud in my life. If! could hear single rifle shots echoing | guns on the altar of b veollern ambi it looks if the war is Se a arsduedd’ akiy a i Korn of which usv puss off “How ald t start in this eurious upon the whole length of the fingers eae aver alioted trom ths board be| inrouah (he foreas a saimer at warks| bth: Cnssepae Ware Will Koda be ripe: All! the wermansolloros wil} S emething which is being burned " een ROnAR profession?” he echoed. “Well, PY] instead of the first Joints my grip was as good as lost, Everything in| Ay day dawned the sound became a| Ye 10 thelr naked he Paste two and two together, ‘To a protiteer is burning imperfectly, it we hy Docs the Sea Roar? | going te Columbie University and would be weakened,” the vicinity was camouflaged. You|roar, And the company plugged| ‘W® aid two make eleven. A vent, two aud two make at least) | were to put anyth wena "a row the sea is a move-| studying to be @ surgeon, That} no not believe for a minute that | didn't know if you were going into along, eager to get in It bree, Chestnut burrs and bare t Wow, sald the fox the fire and establish Just the righ Hent ef the sea which causes! sounds far from tho mark, It as.!Garqinor has done his 400 buldings @ camp or a batch of lakes. "At Ata certain point we left the road With an augmented orchestra of Ainorican aviators barraging gor MOURA DE ARR EE ANG RNA Ree, 3e the samo Kind of als waves or) {'d have been # common, ordinary | without a mishap. He had one whieh | ' ade ne ; estnut bt dat chance will the unarmorec oer, | build our fires properly, there would | ound waves that you make when you NW eecean anew Wht warn Gat tor sha E night one couldn't smoke a cigar) and jumped down into a communi-| "4h wih ee Ay AVES) nance will the unarmored flattect of | DUNO ob tree ree ttle aston, ie eS nah af coubear the ya Papi tr » Me a eae came near being fatal, but whieh, } ette outside. We were some distance | cation trench, and there met our| beFlin have, No more chanee than one worm at & row's picnic, In the case of the black coal y fo not occur so quickly In] ee eee een somehow 1 fig. [after alls was instructive, He fell from the front line, but the German guides, one for each platoon, They Save the kimonos from this year's crop of chestnyts and help to Win | wnich we think of mostly whe ea and, therefore, the sound pro- | ® pane " HH ’ & v4 i. ‘i ie fifty-one feet from the dome of the : ‘ d ; j lured that there were thousands o planes were buzzing around ev took the lead of the men, who,| the war patent _ think of smoke at all, the black por-| duced is a low wound. It is no differ ee emer sane el x sites State Capitol in Columbia, 8. C. clear day and some times at night, marching single file, soon wound The burocrata will wallop the bureaucrats, You chirped ® | tion is principally little unburned par- lhe if the same air waves could! ¢op themselves—never got above the |Proke several ribs—and learned a 0 a light would have meant shelling. | their way into front and duplicate} chinful. The kaiser won't have any more chance of getting into the | ticles of coal whieh pass a ” j Joop the land away fi non lavalc ana t Mania 6 A lesson. : . # ; : ahr ureter Bien antec ina ae ey with the gaace which are aii non level--and I began to figure | '®* It was while we were in reserve | line positions. As they went in the ate receipts than & bow-legged chi girl b setting into the |) ne w a cl pac aos tolled that I'd never amount to much if 1| This, to use his phrase, was be- that our battalion of the 69th first relieved platoons came marehing| {rent row of & Broadway inusice! comedy, While his elients are busy a when & ‘a i WW hy Does a Tooth Ache? tayed at the Job of becoming a aur-| cause be'd “tempted fortune,” went under fire sons ons decided pack. There was no talking, no erent me aue itt ie Ae Boal ul comes when t Alrey knew that rain made no differ- a new line of trenches should be noise the front line positions, with Lieut. | rea occupied by millions of! which are drawn up t r ve at the rt of the tooth|" asq 1 began ‘looking around for |ence for me @n stone, because stone buflt through the forest and our bat-; By 8 o'clock we were firmly es-| Johnson on the right and Lieut, linn | that is, a specie of the! them If you look at t 8 d to the air When the) 0 impossible to do—something out |absorbs the moisture more or less; talion ent ta aa We moved up tablished in the lines. Our trenches! on the left 1 louse familiar to every sol-|from which a wood fire pariaieeoloern al ena f ” ae of the ordinary which no man ever |but I knew also that I had no right agli Aa 9 epee 4 Adee were roushly in crescent shape and| ‘These two dug-ouls in the ad-| di There ts no way of keeping a | 8ases you Lat . ee Se ie aaahving | is wone| had done. ‘This was way back in '94,!to try my luck on copper, But when 'e had bee 01 4 half an wound through a forest deeper than) vanced position were hes." |cootie off you, ‘They had given us|!" att spa A eae ; + penahee the nari ». when balloon aseensions and para-|Ud climbed up to the base of the hour before the officer on watch any in the vicinity of New York, We! ‘They were about twenty » the , hat © 1 around thela- ire ma ert % San ok hute drops were the biggest thrill/dome I was foolish enough not to al that a Boche plane pad three main dug-out a ih ; ; : : Mt 1 yich ere th fe | de gave the signal that a Boche 1 had ‘in dug-outs for the ground, and bunks lined ¢ br side Honeck after dipp hem net ou ; : ! he people could get from the air care to disappoint the crowd that was over us. We dug into the forest company. two in the front lines and) When the men entered then o| q a bu med at 5 nt ‘ I r ‘ i med to a wud, and Wea t ” A balloon flight and drop was ad-|had gathered, so 1 took a chance, 1 and remained therg until he bad) one much larger further to the rear, was about half a foot and | tvaet thet ‘ ' nig’ : ‘ ld a § Then we weyt back to work.| Licut. Bebrend w out hi ; 1 Si verfect In consirne vertised to occur at the old Fort started to climb on copper:“My band y gon } 3 nd Was ig charge of water op the floor and the rere Als |Coutinoua an while Pawe Tu-Morruy.| UL couse, the Wilckneos of the sees We halueirial Cadailon” Wisallgifle B.S) | George Park, 1 went there to see it, slipped and I fel on | -