Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1917 — STORIES from the BIG CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STORIES from the BIG CITIES

Saved by Presence of Mind and a Clothesline NEW YORK.—With flames leaping from a tenement house window in whichl lie was hanging 60 feet above a courtyard, Samuel Friedman made his way, to safety by pulling himself hand over hand along a clothesline to another!

tenement. Friedman, who is thirty’’one years old, and a shoe salesman, was trapped in his room at the top of a five-story tenement house at 1787 Madison avenue. More than one hundred tenants in the place were awakened by the clanging of street car gongs when conductors and ’motormen discovered the fire. Most of the occupants managed to leave their rooms by way of the rear fire escape. Friedman prepared to leave, but

thought that his sister Lillian had been trapped in her bedroom. He ran back Into the smoke-filled flat and continued his search until he was cut off from! the fire escape. His sister already had reached the street. He was hanging in the window 60 feet above the court when Louis Markowitz in an opposite tenement saw his plight and threw a long clothesline to him. With the rope doubled, the two men made it fast between the bulldingsj Friedman let himself out on the ledge, with the flames licking the window casing above him. He dangled full length for a moment and then made his way slowly, hand over hand, to the other building, while hundreds below cheered. Mary Jaffe, twenty-two years old, her sister Beatrice, twenty, and Bernard, her brother, eighteen, were caught in their flat on the fourth floor and| were rescued by firemen with the aid of ladders. The ladders were short of the window and the two young women were forced to drop Into the arms of the firemen before being carried to the court. Ten companies answered the fire alarm and soon extinguished the blaze.

Dog Saved Its Mistress From Miserable Death OTTAWA, ONT. —After watching for two days the spot In Duck lake where her husband was drowned, Mrs. Patrick Bruyere of River Desert, Quebec, was saved from starvation by the sagacity of her dog, which swam from the

rock in a lonely part of the lake where the woman was marooned with an ap- ’ peal for help. With her husband, Mrs. Bruyere went on a fishing trip three days ago? ' They landed on a rock island some distance from shore. A small squall set the canoe adrift and Bruyere, who could not swim, tied a line about his body and waded into the lake after the canoe. Getting to the end of the line and within a few feet of the drifting boat.

he called to his wife to let go of the line. As he did so Bruyere stepped Inta a hole and sank. Mrs. Bruyere was unable to help him. On the lonely island her calls for help were unanswered for two days. Then the Bruyere’s dog swam from the mainland. The woman found pencil! and paper in her husband’s coat, which he had taken off before he went after the canoe, and wrote an appeal for help which she tied to the dog’s collar and told the animal to return to the mainland. The dog carried the message to a neighbor, who organized a searching party and rescued Mrs; Bruyere, who was In a serious condition from exposure and lack of food. The body of her husband was recovered.

New York Fire Chief Covers Himself With Glory MONROE, LA.—Within 24 hours after he arrived on the scene, former Deputy Chief William Guerin of the New York fire department extinguished the largest gas-well fire In the history of the world. It took Chief;

Guerin five minutes to put out the flames which' had baffled qyperts of three states summoned to assist In controlling the tremendous blaze. The well is near this city, and Is owned by the Ouachita Natural Gas and Oil company. The flow was 44,300,000 cubic feet a day under a head pressure of 1,500 pounds a square Inch, Chief Guerin tells how he did It. “The fire had been burning since 10:15 o’clock on the evening of June 16,” said Chief Guerin. “It was ex-

tinguished at 10:15 o’clock on the morning of June 23, after It had been burn-* mg foi-five and a half days. In that time 242,000,000 cubic feet of gas had! been burned, the loss being conservatively estimated at $4,500,000. “After looking over the situation I decided that the problem was exactly] thesamertsone that! had faced while in tSe New York Are department. The only difference was one of degree. Two hose lines working under high pressure were led up to the well as close as possible and the water turned onAfter cooling the ground and what remained of the pipe the two lines of hose, opposed to each other, were gradually raised. Meeting as they did in the. column Of gas, as soon as the stream reached the base of the flame the water was turned Into steam which formed a curtain shutting off the gas from the blaze above in such a way that the fire was extinguished almost magically,"

“Bad Man” Will Pay for His Fun With Sheriff CUMBERLAND, MD. —George E. Bond, chief of police of Horton-Whitmer, W.Ya., was held up at the point of a Winchester rifle by Willis Long in the county road near the home of the officer, and was compelled to dance at

Long’s bidding. Long, who is looked upon as a “bad man,” had been arrested . several times and fined. He wanted to get even, and was. waiting behind a tree for the chief, knowing he would happen along and likely would be unarmed, as he had gone out into a field behind his cow barn to set out beet plants. - Long drew his Winchester and ordered the chief to throw up his hands. I Bond tried to joke with Long, but finding that he was in earnest.

stepped out into the road and began hopping around. To get Long careless and off his guard he began singing, “Possum Up a Gum Stump, Cooney in a Hollow.” This seemed to amuse Long, and watching his chance, Chief Bond made a quick spring and struck Long a hard blow od the neck, just below the ear, with his fist. This sent him sprawlihg, and Bond then kicked him in the face, making him unconscious. . ’ He ripped Long’s shirt into strips and bound him hand and foot. A wagon came along and with the assistance of the driver Long was roughly tossed in and hauled- to jail. Long is a large, raw-boned, broad-shouldered man and weighs over 200 pounds. He is addicted to reading wild west and cowboy stories, and has at his home a full cowboy suit, hat, boots and spurs, a S6O cowboy saddle, bridle and lasso, a 30-callber, high-power rifle and two large blue-steel revolvers. He creates the, impression that he is an all-around “bad maD Newspaper men who Interviewed Long in his temporary home- In the rnuntv tail came away with the Idea that he was somewhat sorry for having SS2 the fool with a man who "knew the game."