Only persons of cheap character would be likely to resort to such a
device as the following:
With more than 10,000 persons intently watching proceedings,
George Lenfers and Miss Ora D. Williams were married on the top
of the gas company’s new giant smoke-stack, 222 feet from the
ground, at high noon the other day. The streets and alleys for
five blocks in every direction were jammed and high roofs were
dotted with spectators as far as the eye could reach.
Thomas Englehard, the builder of the huge pile of concrete and
steel, clasped a belt about the bride’s waist and tied a rope
to a ring in it. The other end of the rope he tied about his
own waist and proceeded with the girl up the ladder. The groom
followed with Rev. C. J. Armentraut, pastor of the Emanuel
Presbyterian Church. (Text.)
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