Adventurers' Club Man Survives Ice Roof Hanging Tale
The Boston 1915 incident follows Harry J. Perry a New York City adventurer who volunteered to clear ice from a store roof eight stories up. A frayed rope, a gutter crack, and a dangerous edge framed his desperate ascent and near-fatal descent. He describes the moment the noose was placed around his neck as the last path to safety.
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Harry J. Perry
New York City
Harry
Boston
Harry Perry
Boylston Street
Bartholdi
United States
Compaghie
Transatlantique
New York Harbor
Opi
Statue of Liberty marks 50 years at Bedloe's Island
A commemorative look at Miss Liberty on Bedloe's Island as the Statue of Liberty’s 50th anniversary approaches. The article recalls the 1886 dedication by Grover Cleveland, the French gift, Bartholdi’s design, the fundraising, and the monument’s height and features. It notes the planned 1936 re dedication with President Roosevelt and the French ambassador in attendance.
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Miss Liberty
Statue of Liberty
Bedloe’s Island
New York Harbor
France
Grover Cleveland
Little Island
New York
Roosevelt
M. Andre de Laboulaye
White House
Edouard de Laboulaye
M. Edouard de Laboulaye
Versailles
Lafayette
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
Garibaldi
Italy
M. de Laboulaye
Grant
Meade
Sheridan
Longfellow
America
Bartholdi
Louvre
Paris
United States
Gounod
Faust
Laboulaye
William M. Evarts
Congress
Bedloe's Island
Philadelphia
Madison Square
Atlantic
Levi P. Morton
Morton
Schofield
United States Army
Cleveland
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Liberty
Rhodes
New World
Mme. Bartholdi
Frank Leslie
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Dventurers’ Club
Floyd Gibbons
R. G.kent
Linguistic Society of America
Los Angeles Times
Perce
Elmo Scott Watson
Auguste Bartboldi