High-wire-walker

A high-wire-walker appeared on our streets last Thursday afternoon and performed some wonderful feats on a small wire cable stretched across Chestnut street, from the top of Leonard Smith’s block, occupied by the Union Drug Store of Denniston, Reinardy & Co to the top of Wheeler’s three-story block over the Free Press office.

Fiercely protective and lavishly generous with his family and his close circle of friends, the soft-spoken Cablevision chairman pursues his goals with a self-made man’s stubbornness, a chess master’s patience and a high-wire-walker’s tolerance for risk.

You never know if this might be the night that the high-wire-walker loses his balance and fails to recover.