April 27, 1916 ~ CLIMBS FEDERAL BUILDING.

April 27, 1916
CLIMBS FEDERAL BUILDING.


"Human Fly" Walks Up After Being "Shooed" From Other Feats.

After dodging from one building to another only to be warned away by policemen, Harry H. Gardiner, the "human fly," climbed the Federal building yesterday at noon. About 15,000 persons jammed the adjacent streets while Gardiner worked his way from sidewalk to the pinnacle of the dome.

It was a hard climb, the "human fly" said after it was all over -- the hardest he has ever tackled.

Gardiner first went to the Commerce building, then to the Scarritt building, but he was warned that if he so much as set his foot on a wall he would be arrested for trespassing.