Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1911 — TAILLS OF GOTHAM AND OTHER CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TAILLS OF GOTHAM AND OTHER CITIES

Firemen Often Fooled by Freak Calls

pavement and called for the firemen. Great crowds gathered about the spot where the m£h lay and the firemen and policemen of the district added to the throng. The firemen were disgusted, the police were disgusted and eventually the epileptic was disgusted because he was arrested for causing a disturbance. Last year one of the innovations la; the rescue work of New York firemen which includes anything from taking cats from trees to rescuing people in 42-story buildings, was the rescue of an aviator whose machine had become entangled in a maze of Tires in Brooklyn. A little girl, eager to get a "look” into a fine garden, thrust her head between two pickets and once there she was unable to release herself. The firemen and police were called, but finally a doctor came forward with a little vasaline, applied it on the child’s head and the rescue was effected. Recently a fireman was injured by a fall from a tree while rescuing a cat that had escaped a canine’s fury. There are scores of such happenings every day in great cities and among the heaviest bills fire departments must pay are those caused by responding to false alarms.

NEW 1 YORK.—In the face of accident the unresourceful New Yorker flies to two sources of safety and relief of the police and the fire departments. He has no confidence in himself. The result of walking in the same groove with his many brothers day in and day out for so many years has left him with no incentive to do the work of rescue. The fire alarm box is so handy and the "cop” is, so accessible, "what would be the Awe?” he asks himself. For this reason no firemen in any section of the country are called upon to do such a variety of things as those in the larger cities. Perhaps one of the most humorous calls fire-department in New York came when an epileptic, about to “throw a fit,” had held a bottle of medieine to his mouth, which he explained to the court afterward, would have prevented the attack. Some selfappointed guardian, imagining the bottle contained poison, dashed it to the