Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1903 — MAYOR JONES' EXPLOIT". [ARTICLE]

MAYOR JONES' EXPLOIT".

fc'oledo'n Kscc-oHvo Siuw* FlrcoMS* How to Climb 11> a Brass 800 Hand over hand, with bi» body Wo>~ rigid as the muscles that maintained ltj. Mayor Samuel Jonea of Toledo, 0-i, moved silently aud gracefully u ft heavy brass rod leading from the slespH* - ing quarters of the fire boys at enginw* house No. 3 on Jefferson street from* t the engine room floor below and only, stopped ascending when his head! touched, the roof, two floors from tbeground, says the New York Timas, 1 Try as they would, the half dozen’ healthy firemen could not come nearly up to the mayor’s record as a band avor band climber. , These athletic sports occurred tfia* other day at the Central fire station, the mayor having dropped in to pan* the time of day en route to affairs o*’ state. There’s nothing the mayor enjoys more than some exercise whiclp will test the brawn of a man, and ft pleases him to be able to lead and. to watch them try to follow. The brasa rod is the fireman’s stairway— eomSumi down—but the mayor made it his gvIng up, something the men rarely attempted except when “bantered.”’ The mayor’s grip is wonderfully strong, his great, broad hands betas well muscled and well trained. Tbe mayor prefers running or walking; downtown to riding; he prefers to sleep?in the open air, and hence upon hto back porch.