Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1911 — AMMONIA STOPS A RUNAWAY [ARTICLE]

AMMONIA STOPS A RUNAWAY

Professor of Byraouse University Throws Powder in Eyes of Horse and Then Washes It Out. Tonkers, N. Y. —Prof. Charles Edgar Roake of Syracuse university turned his knowledge of chemistry to practical account in unusual fashion here. He was wafking on Jerome boulevard when he saw approaching a runaway horse attached to a cart. Two screaming children were in peril in the cart. The professor happened to have in his pocket a package of an ammonia compound. He threw a handful in the horse’s eyes as it came opposite him, and the blinded animal stopped as if shot Then, while a bystander held the horse, he Btepped to a hydrant and prepared a solution of another chemical. With this he washed' the ammonia from the horse’s eyes in time to save its sight