Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1883 — A Novel Fire Escape. [ARTICLE]

A Novel Fire Escape.

The last invention for the protection of theater audiences is a “penetrable safety wall,” which has been patented by an engineer at Kottsbus, Germany. iThe plan is to make the interior walls in all parts of the theater of papier mache, made after a certain method. Such a wall will have the appearance of massive stone, but by pressure upon certain parts, where the words are to be painted in luminous letters, “To be broken open in case of fire,” access to the exterior corridors is to be obtained, whence escape to the outer air can be made.— Popular Science Monthly. There are said to be 676,250 Presbyterians on the long roll of the Gen--1 eral Assembly of Canada.