Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1919 — HE SLEEPS ON WINDOW LEDGE [ARTICLE]

HE SLEEPS ON WINDOW LEDGE

Thousands Watch New Porter Slumber on Perilous Couch in Philadelphia. Philadelphia.—Office workers in the buildings near Broad and Chestnut streets and thousands of pedestrians in the street had the chill of their lives as they watched a man lying on the ledge of a window of the Land Title building, taking a siesta. Entirely oblivious to the commotion he was creating, he slept peacefully on, his arms outstretched in luxurious ease, his feet sticking over the edge of the sill from which was a sheer drop of forty or fifty feet to the pavement. His slumbers, however, were soon brought to an end when repeated telephone calls to the building superintendent’s office told of the sleeper and his perilous couch. The man turned out to be a new porter and John, the head porter, climbed out, woke him and soon brought him “back to earth,” both figuratively and physically.