Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1913 — BRAVES FIRE FOR KITTENS [ARTICLE]

BRAVES FIRE FOR KITTENS

Firemen Rescue Mother Found Cany Through the Smoke. New York.—Maternal instinct led a >ig black cat to Ignore flames and smoke in an effort to shield her six little kittens in the six-story loft building at No. 114 West Seventeenth street, until the firemen had to carry her out of the place to save her life. She was limp and almost suffocated when the firemen picked her up, but was still making a valiant fight for her offspring. All six of the little fluffy felines were dead, but the mother was struggling toward the front windows with two of them in her mouth in a hopeless effort to get them'into the fresh air. V, The Are started in the underwear shop of Fisher & Co., on the sixth floor of the building. When Lieutenant Comiskey reached the place with his fire company he noticed the cat walking feebly toward the front of the loft. She had in her mouth the two little kittens, but the fire had attained such headway that the lieutenant's attention was diverted from the mother cat for a few minutes. When the Ore was under control he again saw the cat standing over a box. He went up and found that there were four more kittens. All of them had been smothered by the smoke, as were the two the mother had been carrying. The lieutenant carried the mother to the street and Acting Chief Ross decided to adopt her. He took her to the engine house at Sixth avenue and Thirty-third street, where she will spend the rest of her life in luxury.