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Never mind the dog, what about the unusually situated human (see note)?

beachcomber australia Crikey, cannot believe I didn't spot him! :)

National Library of Ireland on The Commons beachcomber australia He was up there looking for a real Dog

beachcomber australia National Library of Ireland on The Commons I spotted him thanks to your note and what I wonder is how did he manage it? I remember when linesmen of various persuasions put on special steel shoes with a large spiked hook at the toe that went around the pole. They then put a large leather belt around their waists and around the pole and they climbed up one step at a time shifting the belt up with each step as this prevented them from falling backwards. The thing is that the pole in this case look like it is make of concrete and there is no ladder in evidence. Similarly there is no belt in sight to hold him onto the darned thing! Health and safety how are ye?

DannyM8 Niice one Danny, I was just thinking that after all our labours of last week solving puzzles and generally entertaining the denizens of Library Towers and all she gives you is an imitation dog for our troubles. Tsktsk!

beautiful shot

From the daughter's 2005 obituary (at www.newportdailynews.com/ee/newportdailynews/index.php?pa... ) "Olive Whitman Parsons ANNAPOLIS, MD - Since 1994 and formerly of Newport, RI and New York, NY, 94, died on February 27th of complications from a stroke at the Ginger Cove Health Center. Daughter of the late Olive Hitchcock and Charles Seymour Whitman, governor of New York from 1914-1918, Mrs. Parsons was born October 28, 1910, in New York City"

See

Gov. and Mrs. Whitman at the 1916 Republican Convention (Pathe Newsreel) hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/trmp.4115

Perhaps Patrick E. McCabe, a "boss" of the Democratic Party in Albany. See, for example, NYT, June 19, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A01EFD8113CE633A... "ALBANY, June 18. -- Political history will be made rapidly within the next week, and if the threats of Patrick E. McCabe, the Democratic boss of Albany and the other organization leaders are fulfilled, it will be made at the expense of Gov. Sulzer."

swanq: Thanks. We'll include McCabe's fuller info. in the source data next time we update.

I started a biography in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_E._McCabe