ON TOP OF ST. PAUL’S.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19952, 20 November 1926, Page 10

ON TOP OF ST. PAUL’S.

BUILDER’S DANGEROUS WORK. A man who crawls over the pinnacles of St. Paul’s Cathedral passes unnoticed by the hundreds of provincial and American visitors who gaze at the groat building every day. Mr G. Ward, as master mason during the strengthening of the bulldinT was quite cheerful about the risks he took, “St. Paul’s Is the height of my ambition In more senses than one,” he said. “It is the biggest Job I have tackled. The highest point to which I have climbed yet is the golden cross a*t the top of the dome. I have sat on one of the arms. No, I did not get the jim-jams. I never do. I suppose It Is just habit. "It Is true that the cross was moving. It swayed all the time just as the top of a tall chimney sways In the wind. But if one just sways with It one is all right. A more difficult experience than sitting on the arm of the cross was working on the windows inside the dome. The dome interior slopes Inward, like an inverted cup. When I repaired a window there I had nothing beneath me, so I had to hang on with one hand and work with the other.”