Lineman Performs A Daring Feat

Napoleon Meade, a telephone lineman of Camden, N. J., has become so accustomed to working on lofty poles that height has small significance to him. He seems to feel as safe at 90 or 100 feet in the air as he does when his feet are on old Mother Earth.

A few days ago Napoleon was standing at Haddon Avenue and Carmen Street , Camden, with a group of fellow linemen. "Nappy", as the great Bonaparte's namesake is called for short, was being twitted by his companions about his ability as a lineman. He answered that he was more at home on a telegraph pole than any of the others were in a parlor.

"All right, Nappy," said one of the men, "then let's see you climb that pole and stand on your head at the top. I'll dare you to do it."

Napoleon Meade doesn't take a "dare." He dropped his trappings and up the pole he went with the agility of a squirrel. He reached the top, and before his companions and the gathering crowd below had time to catch their breath the daring lineman was standing on his head on top of a ninety foot high telegraph pole.

This might be taken as a fairy story without further evidence, but here is a picture taken by Charles E. Polkerto, the Haddon Avenue Station hotel keeper, who happened to be on the spot with a camera.

Meade held his position for a few seconds, kicked his feet as a taunt to his fellow linemen below, and then came down.