Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1911 — The Fire Escape. [ARTICLE]

The Fire Escape.

, They were country people, pure and simple, but they had read tie home paper 8 and thought they were educated up to all the improvements of the day. When they visited Washington, D. C., t'cey went through the navy department and the models of some of the new battleships. Pointing to the companion, ladder hanging over the s’de of one of the ship.s she asked her better half what it was. :z '■ -.- “Oh,”, he i eplied, "tint's the flpe escape." " .