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IN THE CLOUDS. T'HREE HUNDRED FEE V CP A cMUC H BTZ EEPLS. A Panoramic View of New York--As oending the Scaffolding--The Dan g et of a False Step. (Rom the New York World, June 28.] Travelers on the East River boats have noticed for several weeks past a net- work surrounding the great steeple of the Church of the Re deetner, on East Third street, which rises high above the tenement roofs of the most densely populated see tioa on .the earth's surface. The spire can be seen with a glass from Hempstead plains, twenty miles away on the barrens of Long Island, and its golden cross is visible from the hills back of Jersey City. It rises 300 feet above the curb, and since its erection, twenty,seveu years ago, it has stood firm and stable, enduring many storms and requiring but few repairs. The scaffolding about the spire is for the use of the workmen, who are now giving the church a thorough overhauling, inside and out, under the direction of Mr. Schickel, archi tect. Inside, the church is to be done over in oil-colors in place of the present faded waterscolor work, and over the main altar, seventy feet above the floor, a Munich artist is busy painting an elaborate work of Christ in his glory, surrounded by saints and angels. A new high altar will bring the chancol end of the church into promiinonco. The plain, diamond--lighted, painted glass windows are being replaced by elaborate stained glass, the offerings of wealthy parishioners, and $60,000 or $70,000 is to be spent upon the work of renovation. The entrance to the tower is closely guarded, the pastor alone carrying the koy of the little door which opens into one of the groat pillars at the base of the tower. Within the bulky bit of masonry a circular stair runs winding up in dust and darkness for about seventy feet, where it leaves the visitor to the level of the aisle ceiling, or what may be called the line of the trifori, um. Another climb of the rickety wooden stair over the plastering, and the long passage below the ridge pole and above the iuuun nave ceiling is reached. A small door here looks into the tower-room, and from the windows of as apartment fifteen feet square one may see that the cornices of the five-story tone ment are on a level wvit.h him. In a room below the tollers and bell ringers assemble, and fnd roady to their hand the ropes that servo as keys to the chimes above. Up through a trap door is a lofty room -lofty because here the clock wveights travel their monotonous journey up and d>wvn. Firmly fixed upon heavy trainsvorso beams, se, curely anchiored into the five foot brick walls, is a great box of sand. It seems to have no pairticular rea. ion for being in that particular place, and calls out a question fromn nearly every visitor. It is to pre vent danmage if the 500 -pound chime weights or the 250-pound clock weights should fall. Nearly 30 feet high is this room, with a stairway winding about it. Above it the clock work is shut up in a large closet, with the levers which chime the quarters and the hours exposed. Up another story are the clock faces, four square. Up again, and the cool air blows refreshingly in among the bells from one louvre window to another. There are in all five bells, from the great hour teller, weighing 5,000 pounds, down to the "baby," weighing less than 500 pounds. The inscriptions upon them are a curious mixture of Eng lish, Latin and German, for some of them are imported. There are one or two empty chambers, and then slanting sides begin to tell of the spire. Stepping from a wee win-, dow fAr up the spire side, a Wold reporter, wvho was accompanied by Mr. Ebelmann, the head carpenter, found himself on a narrow platform of planking, and much in need of a clear head, A ingle misstep or a pnomentary sur render to anything like dizziness meant a fall of 200 feet sheer, with fiagstones to stop on. From this platform rose the scaffolding, built from the outer.gallery of- the tower, and entirely independent of the pyramidal spire. It was ticklish enough to climb about upon loose plnigin mid-air, witl e wind bongat the rate of. twent a mile. an.houir; but when fity feet of that iras donie there was yet another Aifty f, tet inxe to,oIimb to get to the top ot theumoss, x Asladder zwas lqahed to the, onte sdes t ,the scaffold frasse , work. U tot: uis , . Ebelmann ran like a cat, and the' reporter with the gacea and speed of a cow, but the soul of a lion, followel. At the globe, which from the street looks as big as an orange, and is fifteen feet in circumference, a couple of workmen were found, within a little room made by stretching tarpaulins about the scaffolding, busily at work gild ing the hollow ball, the canvas keeping off the wind. Past this lit, tle house in the clouds the daring reporter climbed, and sitting upon a single plank stretched between two uprights of the scaffolding over I the cross, took a look at things earthly. Tompkin's square, though a quarter of a mile away, seemed to be at the base of the tower. Bat talion upon battalion of tenement house roofs stretched north and south. The two rivers were near enough to be jumped into, and east and west, so far as this narrow little island is concerned, embraced each other. To the southwest was a great ocean of buildings, pierced by the lowering peaks of the Mutual Insurance Cowpany, the Equitable, the Tribune building and Post office, with Trinity spire peeping modestly up. The Brooklyn sub urbs showed over the tops of the bridge towers, 271 feet high. Up the East River Blackwell's Island pointed its southern end straight for the steeple. Astoria and Ravens wood peeped among the trees, and nearer by Hunter's Point gave forth its snudges Beyond the ranges of low hills skirting Williamsburg stretched the plains of Long Island. To the north Central Park looked like a little bunch of green against which the bald white face of Tam many Hall stood out diabolically. The Hudson was lost behind tall buildings for a while, but between the hills could be followed up to the brow of the Palisades. opposite Tarrytown. Tc the south the whole harbor lay open, dotted with its geen and fortified islands, and son tinoled in the dim distance by the Robbin's Reef Light-house. Through the Narrows tho lower bay faded iut.> ocean, and a sharp eye could just catch the IIighlands of Naves ink against a background of joint gray sky and gray sea. A dull roar of the busy city reached the observ er's airy pereh. upon which he hard ly dared stir a foot. 1'inally the sun went down in the clear air behind the line of the Orange 'Mountains. The Hudson turned blood red, and then golden, and the landscape was invaded by grays and blacks. Gas lights began to pee) along the nar. row lanes of thG avenues and then on the cross lines of the streets, and the reporter of the Vorld was deeply impressod with the suspicion that if ho didn't get down by day. light he would be apt to get down quite too much all at once. Hug ging closely the creaking ladder, he wiggled, p)ainfully and slowly, back to the little wvindowv, down the dark spiral stair and out again into the great church interior, thronged with the vesper worshipers. Not ice-Finaml D)ischiarge. NO(TICE is given to all persons in any3 wise interested in~ this the estate of' William~ Dawkins, decoensed, that 8. M. 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