1909
Makes Trip in Painter's Swing to Chimney Top at Rockford, Ill., While Friends Watch.
Rockford, Ill., Oct. 9 — Rather than take the "dare" of her friends, Mrs. L. D. Morris yesterday made a trip alone in a painter's swing to the top of a chimney 225 feet high. She went up on the outside of the chimney, perched on a narrow board secured between two ropes, while scores looked on in anxiety.
At the top Mrs. Morris waved her handkerchief to the group below, and after she had spent a few minutes enjoying the view, was let down, none the worse for her experience.
The stack is a new one, almost completed, and the tallest in Rockford.
"A Rockford woman went to the top of the water works chimney on an inside elevator," said Mrs. Morris. "I said I had nerve to go up on the outside of a higher one in a painter's swing, although they wouldn't believe me, but I did it. The view repaid me."
—The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IA, Oct. 9, 1909, p. 9.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Woman Scales Stack 225 Feet High on Dare
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