ON TOP OF ST. PAUL’S

Shannon News, 9 November 1926, Page 2

ON TOP OF ST. PAUL’S

BUILDER’S DANGEROUS WOKK

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 great building every day. Mr. G. Ward, ak mastfer mason during the strengthening of the building, was ciuite cheerful about the risks he took. . “St. Paul’s is the height of bition in more senses than one,’’ he said. “It is the biggest job I have tackled. The highest point to whlc I have climbed yet is the golden cross at the top of the dome. I have sat on one of the arms. No, not get the jim-jams. I never do. suppose it is just habit. „ •‘lt is true that the cross was mov ing. It srwayed all the time .. the top of a tall chimney sways ln the Wind. \ But if, one just one is all right. A more perlencc than sitting on the arm

the cross was working on the windows inside the dome. The dome interior slopes inward, like an inverted cupi When' I repaired a window there I had nothing beneath me, so I had to hang on wtih one hand and work with tho other.’'