Bill Strother, who is known throughout the United States as the ‘Human Spider’, is now at his home at Stantonsburg, N.C., recovering from his injuries sustained while climbing in Long Branch, N.J., for the benefit of the Red Cross. Mr. Strother, who has been climbing for only one year but has climbed all over the United States, is considered champion climber of the world, having defeated the Human Fly in a climbing contest in Atlanta, Ga., in February.
The climbing
contest was pulled off on the State Capitol, which is about 20 stories high.
Mr. Strother defeated the Fly by 38 minutes and was sitting on the head of the
goddess when the Fly arrived at the foot, which was as far as he went. The
Fly’s name was Mr. Gardner, known as the “Satinet Man.”
Bill since then has
been devoting his time to Uncle Sam climbing for the Red Cross Liberty Loan and
War Savings and Thrift Stamps, and has raised thousands of dollars that way for
Uncle Sam that would have never been gotten, one of the Richmond papers gave
the Spider a write up after the climb and this was the way it was headed: Human
Spider makes people buy stamps.
Mr. Strother is now
walking around on crutches but he hopes to soon be able to get back on the job,
for he has some important work to do as he is to climb for the Fourth Liberty
Loan. In fact his climbs are already booked and he says that the only thing
that will stop him now is the draft but he hopes that he will not be drafted
until the Drive is over for he feels sure that he will be able to sell $200,000
worth of bonds and then Uncle Sam can have him and he will climb after the
Kaiser.
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