DISPLAYED A LOT OF NERVE

DISPLAYED A LOT OF NERVE

LINEMAN WORKED IN MIDDLE OF SIX HIGH TENSION WIRES

Each One of Which Carried a Voltage of 2,300 -- Was a Daring Experiment

The local employees of the Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor & Jackson Electric road are discussing today one of the most wonderful displays of nerve ever seen in this vicinity. A lineman from Detroit, sent out to remedy some defect in the wiring two miles west of Chelsea, climbed up on the cross-arm of one of the poles and calmly commenced to work right in the middle of the six high tension wires, each of them carrying a voltage of 2,300.

Such a feat had never been attempted before without turning off the current and a large number of the road's officials from the principal cities along the route, many of them incredulous of the success of the experiment, were on hand to see the adventurer killed. It was freely stated that the feat had never before been performed and experts were not slow in stating that to approach within three feet of the wires, was courting certain death.

In spite of the alarm of the officials, however, the man, whose name cannot be learned, calmly mounted the poles and worked for several hours without the least damage. The dryness of the atmosphere and the fact that the man was careful to ascend the poles with perfectly dry clothing probably facilitated the successful termination of his daring escapade.

The man's belt was full of tools and once, when his ax swung against a wire there was a blinding flash and the ax fell to the ground. The man sustained no injury, however, and finished the job he was sent out to do. It is doubtful, however, if he will be allowed to repeat the experiment.