AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14457, 1 June 1911, Page 5

AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.

MAN FAINTS ON FAOTOItIf CHIMNEY. According to tho Berlin corro«po» dout of tlw London "Telegraph, short" Jy before midnight recently belated destnuns iurrying homewards alonu wm stroot known n« Old Moabit, in Btir«ui| wore arretted in their courso by loud 6houta of Uolp that soomed' to cofll% from the «kies. They lookod up l# cui'iuUß astonishment, and presently taw tho £guro of a man silhouetted against tho moonlit sky at the top 0* a factory chimnoy ICO feet high, HA continued his crios for assistano©. tindj amid hia gostioulatioim, pointed lit PO£o> objoct lying at hU foot. Tlio orowd> which rapidly collected, realised tnnt something untoward had happened, una rang up the fire brigadie—the invantiblt suocouror in all novel piodicuments. \Vlk>e the firemen succeeded ia raiih* inr, their way to tho summit of th» chimney, they found that tlie man who had baon appealing so pitifully for help was indeed in an awkward fix. Witb & follow workman ha had been ordered to remove tho waathor ooclt which crowned the structure, and bad recently showtt signs of falling. As the chimney wa» in übo during' the day, they hud boon obliged to undorlnko tho tusk Into at nijrht, after tho furnnxxKi had boon extinguished and tho flue liad had time to cool a littlo. They hud rent-lied tho top by a series of Rtops provido<l in tho interior of tho Htruoturo, 'But . tho chimney was still hot, and tho stifling tomperature, oombined with Boot and dust, was too much for jno of thorn, and as ho emerged on the carrow coping he collapsed in an unconscious lioap. His mate had feared to desoend for help, thinking that, in the uneasy movements of ooming to himself, tho prostrate man might roll from hii nor* row oouch into the abyss lkilow.

It was no easy tusk, uvon for tho fir® brigado, to resoue tlio sick man from his perilous situation. An immoworope was painfully hauled up thu huge tJiaft, and run round a pulley attached to ths scaffolding that {supported tho weather* ojok. To tliifi"ropo ho wan fn«touedj and by its moans carefully lowered down the middle of the ehinuvoy, It was halfpaat ono before ho was on flrv ground onoo more.