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FOOD 1‘0th FLAMES.
Property In Philadelphia Worth Near-
ly $3,000,000 Burned.
WHOLE BLOCK DESTROYED.
5ev§rai Deaths Indirectly Caused by the
Fire-El fork of tlie Volunteers In
“'ari‘amaker’s Storel—Confla-
grations Elsewhere.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27.—The largest
fire that has visited this city for years,
broke out early today in the block bounded
by Thirteenth and Juniper and Market
and Filbert streets: When it was brought
under control at 10:30 a. m., it had dc-
stroycd 30 buildings and had caused money
losses estimated in the aggregate at be-
Itween $2,500,000 and $3,000,000. The dry
goods store of John Wanamaker was on
fire for a time and was saved from destruc-
tion by great exertions.
The fire originated in the basement of
Hanscom Bros.’ grocery store at 1317 Mar-
ket street. The flames jumped to Dcnnett’s
restaurant on the cast and the umbrella
store of Hirsch Bros. on the west. All of
the buildings were six stories high, and
nothing but the walls Was soon loft stand-'
ing. The cloak store of Blum Bros, ad-
joining Hirsch Bros., next caught, and
the eight story building of Dunlap Bros,
fancy printers, at 1316, 1318 and 1320 Fil—
bert street, and the flames soon ate their
way through the big store.
The roof and—tower of Wanamakcr’s dry
goods store on the south side of market
street, directly Opposite the fire, were then
seen to be ablaze, and the firemen turned
their attention to saving them. The weather
was bitterly cold and rendered the work
of the firemen diflicult. A general alarm
was sent in, but several fires in other parts
of the city delayed the assembling of the
entire department.
The fire in Wanamaker’s was confined
to the Market street end. The big orna—
mental tower at the Thirteenth and Mar-
ket street corner of the store was com-
pletely burned out. The tower contained
a. handsome clock and chime of bells.
These fcll with a crash through to the
basement at 9 a. m. The roof ofthe build-
ing, which covers the large blockboundcd
by Chestnut, Market}, Thirteenth and Ju—
niper streets, was filled with city firemen
and members of Warm-maker’s fire bri-
gade. .
Effective Amateur Fire Fighters.
In the store about 4,200 persons are em—
ployed, and as many of the men in this
army as could be of use in fighting the
flames were admitted to the store. The
precautions that the inflammable nature
of the contents of the structure had made
necessary made the work of the trained
fire brigade very effective.
The flames were discovered by John
Wagner, a reserve policeman, who was
passing the Hanscom building at 6 :50
o’clock. He immediately turned in an
alarm, but before the engines reached the
scene the entire rear portions of Hanscoms’
and Dennett’s restaurant were ablaze. A
second alarm was then sent in, and a few
moments later a general alarm was sound-
ed. Immediately adjoining Hanscom BrOs.
'on the west was the five story building oc-
cupied by Blum Bros, manufacturers of
women’s cloaks. The flames spread swiftly
to this building, and it was soon a mass of
flames. The water seemed almost to freeze
before it touched the buildings, socold was
the weather.
west to be burned was that occupied by
George Marshall as a restaurant; then
came the hat manufactory of George B.
Wells at 1323 Market street, and the rear
of the wholesale grocery of Showell 85
Fryer at 1325.
The umbrella manufactory of Hirsch
Bros, one of the largest in the world,
which adjoined Dennett’s restaurant, had
caught fire in the meantime, and in half
an hour the beautiful eight story building,
extending from 1309 to 1315 Market street,
was a mass of flames. On the east of the
Hirsch building, between 1309 and 1315
Market street, were the following tenants:
The Mizpah restaurant, N0. 1309; Sterner
&; Ball, wholesale and retail cigar dealers,
N 0. 1305; the wholesale and retail confoc-
tionery of A. N ickolacky, No. 1303, and the
drug store of H. Hillmann at No. 1301, the
upper story of which was occupied by Pot-
ter Bros. as a. photograph gallery. -
Other Buildings Burned.
0n the north side of Hirsch Bros. ’factory,
immediately across Silver street, stood the
new seven story building of Dunlap Bros,
said to be the only printing firm in the
state with a capacity for printing the pres-
ent blanket Australian ballots. This build—
ing extended from 1306 to 1310 Filbert.
street and was 100 feet deep. The first
floors were occupied by the Collins Car-
riage company. The flames swept through
this big structure and burned it out
completely. The small buildings on Silver
street, running west from Thirteenth to
Juniper, were all burned out. The shop of
Lewis Havens, a contractor, caught fire
from the rear of Blum Bros, and three
firemen were caught by a. falling wall.
Frank Piper of Engine compapy NO. 80
was the only man seriously injured.
At 8:15 a. m. the fire was discovered
breaking out in the tower of Wanamakcr’s.
A stream of water from one of the water
towers wasrun up to the structure, but
the supply of water was either . too small
or the apparatus defective, and the stream
would not reach. When the tower col-
lapsed, 4-5uninutcs later, the clock 'fell-
through to the first floor. TWO lines of
hose were then got on top of the structure,
and the flames were soon got under con-
trol. The ' fire had been confined en-
tirely to the Market street front, and the
loss sustained by Mr. Wanamaker was
principally in the destruction of his clock
and chimes and the breaking of all the
large plate glass windows on Market
street. The roof of the building was ablaze
at one time, and it seemed as though the
structure was doomed, but the hose oper-
ated by the employees of the establishment
kept the fire within bounds.
Up to this time the flames had’becn con-
fined to the block bounded by Filbert street
on the north, Thirteenth on the cast, Mar-
ket on the south and Juniper street on the
west. The wind was blowing, from the
west and carried the flames into the rear
of the buildings on Thirteenth street. The
first building to catch fire here was that
of Jacob Miller, men’s furnishing goods,
at No. 6. Then came the cigar factory of
L. Tarbliss 85 Co. at No. 8; A. McCune &
Co., manufacturers of picture frames, Nos.
10 and 12; E. Pither, dry goods, No. 14; S.
H. Shull, drugs, No. 16; Heine’s bakery,
NO. 18; the Cafe de Blamberg, No. 20;
Budd & Kite, jewelers, N0. 22; the private
residence and barber shop at No. 24; Hu-
ber 8.: Weber, dry goods,” No. 26; J. H.
Stall, jeweler; William H. Stiefi, wall pa- ’-
penmanufacturer, No. 28; Foley’s restau-
rant, No. 30, and James Furlong’s saloon
The next building on the_
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at Ncs. Basia 3i All’of these buildings 1,
were burned out, nothing being left stand-
ing but thcbare walls. ‘
Destruction "On Juniper Street.
The flames atc‘ their way almost directly
northwest from the rear. of Blum Bros.’
building, burning out the rear of Showell.
6’5 Fryer’s grocery. The rear part of 7, 9,
11,13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, and 25 North
Juniper street, which were used as law of—. ;
fleas and private rcSidcnces, was complete—
ly burned out, leaving only the front walls
standing in some . cases. The flames com-
municated with 1302 Filbert/urea: from
the rear of Furlong’s saloon and quickly
burned out Nos. 1302 and 1304, dwellings
occupied by lawyers.
While the fire was at its height flames
were discovered on the window sashes on
the side of the city hall which was exposed
to the heat? The city hall fire'departmcnt
ran a line of hose to the roof and in a few
minutes had the structure free from dau-
ger' ' . . . ‘
Previous to the breaking out of the big
firc there were two other. fires within a
half mile of Wanamaker’s, and just about
the time the firemen had gained control of
the great conflagration an alarm coming
from a point within four blocks caused a
part of the fire fighters to hurry away with
their engines. Between 3 and 4 a. m. an ,
alarm had brought the firemen to 533
Chestnut street, where flames had broken 1
out in the fifth story of the building occu-
pied by O. S. Bunnell, a wholesale station- l
or. The fire caused a loss of about $10,000._ I
' Just before 6 o’clock another fire started ,
on the sixth floor of the carpet store of
John & James Dobson, 808, 810 and 812 I
Chestnut street. By hard work the flames i
were confined to the sixth story, but the I
water soaked through every floor to the l
basement. The store was filled with ex. .
pensive carpets, rugs and upholstery, and
the loss caused by water and smoke cxcccd- I
ed $100,000. -
At 10:30 a. m. a defective flue started a l
fire in Cochran’s oyster house, 905 Filbert .
street, four blocks from where the big fire .
was raging on the same street. The flames ;
here were confined to the third story and
the loss to $2,000.
Thrilling incidents were not wanting.
While the fire was at its height an em-
ployee of the carpet firm of Ivins, Dietz 85
Magoo, whose building is in the block be-
low that devastated by the flamcs on Mar-
kct street, was overcome [by the excitement ,
and suddenly dropped dead. I
J amcs Furlong, proprietOr of the saloon
at the corner of Juniper and Filbert streets,
is critically ill of pneumonia. When the
flames began to eat their way to his place,
a squad of firemen carried him from his
sickbed into the bleak streets, and he was
hurriedly taken to a nearby hotel. The
excitement and shock may cost him his
life.
Shortly before noon at second fireman
was injured—William ,German, aged 3.3
years, assistant foreman of Company N o.
1. He was struck by - falling bricks and
timbers and badly hurt about the arms
and neck.
Had the fire occurred an hour or two
later the results would have been appall-
ing. The burned district is in the very
heart of the business center of the city,
across the way from the mammoth city
hall and aroundthe corner from the Penn-
sylvania railroad station. The blaze had
not been under way a. half hour before the
thousands of employees of the destroyed
business houses began flocking to the scene
to begin their daily work. Many of the
larger establishments, including Wana-
maker’s, employed a. large majority of
women and, girls, and had the disaster come
during business hours a. panic with its
consequent loss of life would have been in-
evitable.
Syracuse Suffers Too.
SYRACUSE, Jan. 27.—A fire which at one
time threatened to destroy the business
portion of the city broke out in the cloak
establishment of the . New York Cloak
company. A gale was blowing, and the
thermometer was down about the zero
point, making the successful fighting of
the fire a work of difficulty. The flames
spread rapidly, and within a short time the
two adjoining buildings to the north were
a mass of flames. The water froze almost
as soon as it was thrown on the buildings,
and the firemen were masses of ice. The
smoke from the burning goods was so
dense that it interfered seriously with the
work of the firemen. The roof of Din-
turff’s photograph gallery fell in and cut
off Colonel Yale and a party of friends,
who were in the rear of Colonel Yale’s
store directly under the gallery. They es-
caped by a. rear staircase leading into an
adjoining building. The total loss will be
about $110,000. ~_
FINANCIAL ‘Iiin' cdfiMBROIAL.
Closing Quotations of the New Ydrk Stock
~ Exchange. >
NEW YORKJ an. 26. —Money on call nominally
at l}§@2 per cent. Prime mercantile paper,
3W4 per cent. Sterling exchange steady,
with actual business in bankers' bills at 84.86%
@4.86% for demand ant‘.$4.84}é@4.84§4 for 60
days. Posted rates, [email protected]}§ and 34.87%,
@4.88}é. Commercial bills,$4.83%. Silver cer-
tificates, 65@65}40.; no sales. Bar silver, 650.
Mexican dollars, 50%. Government bonds
strong. State bonds dull. Railroad bonds
firm. '
Closing priceszs
Atchison .......... 14% New England... . .. —-
Bur. & Quincy. . . 74% N. J. Central ...... 99%
C., C., C. & St. L. 27%, North American. . 4%
Chesapeake & 0.. 17%, Northern Pacific: 13%
Chicago Gas ...... 78% Do. pref ........... 33%
Cordage ........... — N. Y. Central ..... 93%,
Cotton Oil ........ 13% Omaha ............ 50%,
Del. & Hudson. . 107% Ontario & West.. . 15
Distillers‘ Trust. . — Pacific Mail ....... 25%,
Erie ............... 14% Reading ........... 26%
General Electric. 35 Rock Island....... 68
Hocking Valley. . 9% Silver Bullion ..... 64%
Lackawanna ...... 153% St. Paul ........... 76%
Lake .Shore ....... 152 Sugar Refinery.. .117lé
Lead .............. 24% Texas Pacific ...... 9%;
Louisville & Nash 51% .U'nion Pacific ..... 7%
Missouri Pacific. . 22%, Wabash pref ...... 16%;
Northwestern....104}4 Western Union... 84%
General Markets.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—FLOUR-State and
western dull and weaker; city mills patents,
[email protected]: winter patents, [email protected];ci1y mills
clears, [email protected]: winter straights, [email protected].
WHEAT—NO. 2 red very weak following
lower cable news and general liquidation;
March, 88%@88%c.: ‘Vlay, 84%@85%c.
CORN—~No. 2 moderately active and easier
in sympathy with wheat; May, 29 9-16@29%c.:
J uly, 30%@30%c. .
OATS—No. 2 dull and ‘easy; May, 220.; track.
white state, 20@29c. '
PORK—Dull; mess, $8.50@9; family, $9.50@10.
LARD—Dull; prime western steam, $4.25.
nominal.
BUTTER—Steady; state dairy, 10@15c.: state
creamery, 13@19c. ' . -
CHEESE- Quiet; state, large, 8@ll}{;c.; small,
' EGGS—Firm: state and Pennsylvania, 16%0;
western,13@17c. , -
SUGAR—Raw quiet: fair refining, 2 153-1603.:
centrifugal. 96 test, 3 3-1604 refined quiet;
crushed, 4%c.: powdered, 4%0.
TURPENTINE—Quiet at. 271vé@28c. ,
MOLASSES—Quiet; New Orleans, 22@320. ,
RICE—Steady; domestic. 3%@6}éc.: Japan.
4%@4.%c. . . . .
TALLOVV—Dull; city, 3%c.; country, 3%0.
HAY—Quiet: shipping, 5W5?}§c.; good to
choice, 67}é@72}«§c. _, {'1-
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Tar. Ties}: WILL oonrnsr.
Irish Relatives Fighting For the Property
Left by the Eccentric Recluse.
NEW Yonk, Jan. 26.—Irish relatives of
the» late Richard Tighe were represented
in Surrogate Fitzgerald’s court today,
where their contest of his will was set for
a hearing. They are fighting for a share
of his property, worth over $1,750,000,
which is mostly left by the will to his
wife’s relatives in this country, three of
whom, Louise M. Peckh-am, wife of Wal-
ton P'eckham; Augusta "S. Hochstaetter,
wife of Willliam Hochstactter, and Ellen
C. Goldschmidt, are named as executors.
Tighc’s wife was the daughter of Robert J.
‘ Chescbrough, first president of the Fulton
National bank. She died in 1891. and her
will, which was made. in 1840, left every-
thing to her husband.
' ' Tighe, who was a familiar figure in
Union square, died last May in his house,
33, the only private house left there. It
was known that he was wealthy, but when
a short time ago lawyers representing the
various contesting interests opened threo
safe deposit boxes they were surprised at
what they found. There were bonds,
stocks and certificates of deposit worth $1,.
7' 50 000. ‘
The will left by Tighe, whic ignored
his Irish relatives, was written b, himself.
It is dated in 1881. It is a queer docu
ment. There are no punctuation marks
from beginning to end, and in three places
he bequeathed to servants “X” dollars.
As the “X’s" arc in pencil, they may have
been meant for-blanks.
Lawyer E. N. Morran is acting for Mar-
garet, Rupert and Captain Richard Feth-
erstonhaugh and Harriet Massey in the
contest of the will. In case the will is set
aside others who will obtain a share of the
estate are: Cecil Fetherstonhaugh, Black-
lyn, County Westmeath; Lady Marie Chap-
man, a cousin, Killua castle, Westmeath;
Jane Tongue, sister-in-law, Dublin; Fran-
cis Roden, a cousin; ‘Ella Vignoles, a
cousin; Sir Montagu Chapman, a cousin;
Emily Fetherstonhaugh," a cousin, all of
Derry Cottage, Drumcree.
The contestants allege that Tighe was of
unsound mind, and that the will was al-
tered too many times. He was known be-
fore his death as the recluse of Union
square and was spoken of as Sir Richard
Tighc.
BIG FIRE IN CHICAGO.
Ininates Forced to Flee For Their Lives
In Bitter Cold Weather.
CHICAGO, Jan. 26.—Tl:c four story rosi-
dencc of Charles J. Barnes, 2,237 Calumet
avenue, was burned early today. Mr.
Barnes is in New York, and Mrs. Barnes
and four servants wore asleep in the house
at the time. With the mercury at 19 de-
grees below zero, they were forced to flee
in scant attire to save their lives. A maid-
servant was overcome by smoke and was
carried out by the firemen. Mr. Barnes is
the western manager of the American
Book company. For years he has been
collecting rare and valuable books. This
was entirely destroyed, and with the dam-
age to the building and furnishings will
make the loss more than $200,000.
The neighborhood is one of the best in
the city, and the fire caused much excito-
ment. On accou’nt'of the bitter cold and a
high wind, the firemen worked under. a.
The fire spread to .
great disadvantage.
the house of the A. H. Cohen estate at
2,210. Abra-ham Cohen, Jr., who is ill
with typhoid fever, was carried from his
bed to the house of A. R. Adams opposite.
Most of the contents of the Cohen resi-
dence were carried into the street and
saved. The damage there is estimated at
$15,000. The fire originated from electric
light wires which had been crossed. The
losses are fully covered by insurance.
August Taylor, 35 years Old, was sufio-
cated by smoke in a fire at 2 o’clock in a
frame building at 2,907 Wentworth av-
enue. The explosion of a kerosene lamp
caused the blaze.
Pittsburg and W'estern Wreck.
CLARION, Pa, Jan. 26,—Another death
is to be added to the list of persons killed
on Saturday, when a Pittsburg and West-
ern passenger train finnped the trestle at
Paint creek and fell a distance of 50 feet—
Brakeman George Wise of Foxburg. This
makes four dead, .the engineer, fireman
and mail agent having been killed out-
right. Conductor Tonks, who jumped as
the train was going'over, is so badly in—
jured that his case is considered critical.
Prominent Newspaper Man Dead.
NEW YORK, Jan. ' 26.—John C. Reid,
who for the past four or five years has been
in charge of the Republican state head-
quarters, died today of heart trouble. Mr.
Reid was well known as a newspaper man.
and at one time he was connected with
the Chicago Times. He was brought from
there by the elder Jones and became man-
aging editor of the New York Times. Sub-
sequently he joined the staff of the New
York Herald.
The Manitoba School Settlement.
LONDON, Jan. 26.——The newspapers here
give prominence today to the proposed
terms for the settlement of the Catholic
schools dispute in Manitoba and the prob-
able action of the pope, who is said to be
considering the compromise clauses of the
question. Sir Donald Smith, the Cana-
dian high commissioner, informs the press
that the agreement does not reveal any-
thing that is not already known in Canada.
A Student .Burned to Death.
BRAT'I'LEBORO, Vt, Jan 26.—Tho Wel-
come Ramsdell building at West Brattle-
boro, occupied by the drug store of Dr.
Qtterson, the meat market of Horace Pre-
fontaine, by L. R. Knapp as a dwelling,
and containing two other tenements which
were unoccupied, was burned early today.
Leroy Amiden, a student at Brattleboro
academy, was burned to death, and the
Knapp family had a. narrow escape.
Sultan Is Losing Hope.
LONDON, Jan. 26.——The Constantinople
correspondent of The Times says that the
sultan is dejected at the prospects of his
Mohammedan subjects backing the Euro-
pean demands. His grand vizier and for-
eign minister are both exhausted with
worry from the palace, and the grand
vizier is seeking permission to resign.
Approval of Arbitration Treaty.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Jan. 26.—-—The
members of . the North Congregational
church in this city adopted a memorial to
the senate urging approval of the arbitra-
tion treaty, which they welcome as ‘a meas-
ure to develop thinkers instead of fighters.
Like act-ion was taken by the First Con-'
gregational church of Pittsfield.
Canadian Aid For Famine Sufferers.
MONTREAL, Jan. 26.——The fund inst-i-
tutcd by The Star a few days ago for the
relief of the famine sufl'ercrs in India is
assuming largo proportions and already
amounts to over_$l0,000, the Bank of
Montreal heading the list with $5,000,
other large. corporations also falling in
line. ' ‘ ~ . - ' '
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A DEADLY BLOW-GUN.
A Peculiar Weapon Found Among the
Hunters ofBorneo. .
A blow gun that is the most remark-
able weapon of. warfare in the world
has been found among the head hunt-
ers of Borneo. What would seen at
first to be merely long thin bamboo
rods are in reality blow-guns of dead-
ly penetration and immense range.
Armed with one of these blow-guns,
which are from 12 to 16 feet long and
not greater than an inch in diameter,
a warrior of Borneo can kill a man at
a distance of 800 feet.
The weapon is absolutely, noiseless,
and the deadly missile which it hurls
is almost invisible. But-the most re-
markable thing about this astonishing
gun is the 'fact that it kills its victim
and leaves hardly a mark‘upon' the
body.
Death follows almost instantaneous-
ly when one has been struck by a dart
from this blow-gun. This is primarily
because the dart is poisoned with a
deadly venom more powerful than the
poison of a rattlesnake.
At the same time the force of this
blow-gun is so great that the dart,
which is generally made from the
thorn of the sage palm, is driven far
beneath the skin.
The dart is dipped in the poison of
the upas tree. This substance is so
deadly, even to those who approach
close to‘it, that the poison is obtained
from the tree by condemned criminals,
who tints can earn a pardon in case
they bring off a bottle of the juice
from the tree itself, which dissemh
hates death for a long distance in its
immediate neighborhood—New 'York
Journal.
Not to be Beaten.
An amusing story is related of a
farmer who came into a village store
in one of the Western States and ex-.
hibited to an admiring crowd an enor-
mous egg about 6 inches long, which
was laid by one of his old hen-s. Hehad
it packed in cotton, and would not al-
low anybpdy to handle it for fear of
The proprietor of the store examined
it with the rest, and, intending to
chaff the countryman, said:—
“Pshaw—I’ve got something in the
egg line that will beat that!”
“I’ll bet you five dollars you have
not!” said the countryman, getting ex-
cited.
“Take it up,” said the store-keeper;
and, going behind the counter, he
brought out a wire egg-beater. “There's
something in the egg line that will beat
it, I guess,” said he, reaching for the
stakes.
“Hold on there,” said the farmer;
"let’s see you beat it!” and handed the
egg to the store-keeper. The latter
held out his hand for it, but dropped it
in surprise on the counter, where it
broke two soup plates and a platter. It
was iron painted white.
“Some folks think they are tarnation
cute,” muttered the farmer, as he
pocketed the stakes and left, “but
‘tain’t no use buckin’ ag‘inst the solid
facts."
This Coachman’s Fault.
An omnibus was going along a
crowded thoroughfare with an im-
mense railway van travelling by its
side, but just a little in its rear. As
they passed a certain street, out shot
a dogcart at full speed, driven by a
young gentleman with his coachman
sitting beside him with folded arms.
The driver _of the omnibus pulled up
short, and the '(log-cart (lashed across
it, only to meet the full force of the
van. ' _
The youthful personage on the top of
it. with his coaclnnan, was, of course,
thrown out, but otherwise not serious-
ly damaged.
Then came the inevitable policeman,
and the question .wliose fault it was.
The omnibus driver, who had seen
it all, was appealed to by all parties.
“Was it my fault?”
young gentleman.
“Your fault! Well, certainly not,”
growled the philosopher. .
"Then whose fault was it?” contin
ned tlie'youth, greatly pleased, and
naturally expecting the vanman to be
denounced.
“lVell. it was your conchman's."
"But how could that be? He was
doing nothing; how could that be his
fault?” '
“Why. just because he was doin’
nothin‘ and lettin’ a baby like you
drive!”
To Hurry a Disagreeable Task.
-1 good way to hurry the dish wash‘
ing in a dry climate is to wash the
dishes. if many. in a small tub, then
put in a pan and scald. Lay them out
edgowise on a' soft cloth On a stand
in the sun, and if sal soda has been
used in the washing they will dry
with'a polish and with no trouble to
wipe. tiieI.:.»- if. M. R.
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breaking the phenomenal production“
inquired the -
V‘I'I‘ewl‘fidiiilSkeer. "1" am.
When the bucolic gentleman with
goatesquc whiskers and a hat of the -'
accordion pattern steppedbriskly into
the elevator and announced a desire
just to make a couple of trips while he
was taking a. “noonin’,” the youthful
conductor of the lift was tickled to the
soles of his feet. The people of the
building were out for lunch and he had
a clear field for sport. ' '
“Are you all ready?” shouted the
boy, as though the slightest neglect in
being ready meant serious disaster.
Let ’er go sonny,” responded the man
from the country, while he chewed
slippery elm bark with the same in:
dustry that a rabbit chews cabbage.
That “sonny” touched Young Ameri-
ca in a sensitive spot, and they went
to the roof with a. whiff that sent (lust
and papers whirling through the corri-
dors. The boy turned to see his pas—
senger with one leg hanging loosely
over the other, his jaws working with-
out a change in time, and his appear- .
ance as calm as though he were sit-
ting on a stake-and-rider fence, watch-
ing things grow. ~
Down they went with a bang, and
the old man only asked if there wasn’t
some way in which “th’ inerslle'cn
could be made .to hump along a. leetle
faster.” Then the desperate 1nd pulled
the throttle wide open, and before he
could check the terrific speed the up-
per end of the course was reached, the
cables snapped, the car dropped like a
bullet to the air cushions below,
bounded half a story and finally set-
tled, with the boy screaming from
fright.
“Can‘t we make another trip or two?”
asked the unmoved grangcr. “Thor's
suthin’ in that kind of motion. And.
sonny, you kin jest tell your people
thar was one farmer in here that th’
newspapers can’t make no fun of. He
don’t .skeer worth a durn." \
Telephone Service.
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Telephone Oo-
TELEPHONE SERVICE
in this City with an ‘
equipment of Metallic a year
Circuit, and Long Dis-
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according to the, amount and character
of the service. For details, address he
Local Office of the Company,
Sentinel B’ld’g., Washington St,
SOUTH N ORWALK. -
OFFERS
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PRACTICAL CONTRACTOR ‘
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HERE’S YOUR GIMME.
A‘ fine building lot on Wilton ave-
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Water, gasand sewer on the avenue.
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