Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1912 — Chicken Dinners Follow Fire Over Grocery Store [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Chicken Dinners Follow Fire Over Grocery Store

BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Because Mrs. Sarah Weinstein, whose neighbors vouch for the accuracy of her statement that she was born 108 years ago, refused to be rescued when a fire started in the cellar of the house in which she lives, residents of that section of the city the other day enjoyed •the first Sunday chicken chase of the season. While Mrs. Weinstein obstinately resisted the efforts of a band of firemen and the best persuasive methods •that Captain Mooney of truck company No. 70, could muster to convince, her she should permit them to carry Tier down the fire escape, a person, •whose chief asset later was shown to

be an exaggerated sense of humor, entered the chicken market kept on the ground floor of the burning building by Julius Sandwich. Half a minute later the firemen gave up their attempts to rescue Mrs. Weinstein with her consent, picked her, up in their armß and carried her down the fire escape. Simultaneously 300 clucking hens and crowing roosters fluttered through the doors of the butcher shop, and with little regard for the rules of the road flew into cellars and open windows and doors. Some of them perched on the tops of shutters; one gained a point of vantage on an Von peg protruding from a telegraph pole. Most of them, however, saved from death by smoke, died in the back yards of persons living in the neighborhood and later did service at a belated Sunday afternoon dinner. Of the 300 chickens that got out of the market, Mr. Sandwich by means of the strictly commercial method of offering 25 cents for each that was returned by its captor, was able to recover only forty.