Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1918 — STAIRWAY AND FIRE ESCAPE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STAIRWAY AND FIRE ESCAPE

Ingenious Scheme- by Which Double Object Was Achieved at a Comparatively Small Cost. At the rear of-a frame building that serves as a public meeting bouse for eitizens of a small’ New York town, an outside re-enforced concrete stairway has been built as a Are escape. It consists of more than a score of -»

steps and a landing of ample size, upheld by heavy supporting walls and supplied with an iron pipe railing. The structure was erected at moderate cost and fills • its purpose quite as 'well as, would conventional steel equipment of less capacity and greater cost. —Popular Mechanics Magazine.

By Constructing the Outside Stairway of Concrete, a Dependable Fire Escape Was Provided at a Nominal Cost.