The Grange advance., 1873-10-29

pegs hung a large opera glass and sail,
or's spy glass, invaluable assistants to-
the bell-ringer in his search for fires.
AT another end of the room were sew
eral telegraphic machines, connecting
with the various fire stations throughout
the city. "
"Your business requires a very keen
eye," suggested the reporter. !
.:Yes,' answered the little man,
keeping lookout through the window
as he spoke It's pooty hard to tell
where fire is sometimes; there's so
much smoke from the factories over the
city. If we give wrong alarm then
we gets hauled up around the corner
(the Fire Commissioners ofice.)
"Do you use the telegraph wires
much ?"
"Well, yes. It's big help to us.
If it wasn't wi. out 'em we'd make mis-
takes oftener. Ye see we aint high
enough up here to get sight at some
of the deestricks Another way that
the telegraph comes in good is the
chance that it gives us to send word
straight to the ingine houses. Mebbe
you've noticed that the ingines near a
fire is out before the bell taps. Well,
that's because we telegraph em before
we tap. IF we should sound the wrong
deestrick on the bell the fireman feel
kinder sore about it, Ye see when we
ring and then telegraph, the horses in
the ingine houses back right out before
the ingine, and that makes trouble.
Then if the men 60 to the wrong dees-
trick it makes more trouble yet, I tell
you it's pooty hard sometimes to tell
where fire is. specially when it looks
as if Brooklyn and New York is one
city. Look out and see for yourself" "
said the bell-ringer as he opened the
north window.
And the man was right. Looking
from the front Of the Hall, the eye took
in a vast sweep Of buildings massed to-
, gether as far as the sight could reach
The East River was as completely hid.
2 den from view as if it had been sudden.
ly sunk beneath the sands of Manhattan
< Island
: DO you ever get lonesome up here p
! "Yes, it's very lonesome up here
some nig ghts, when the rain or snow i:
$ dashin' up agin the windows, and the
> wind howlin' around here. A man al
: is on duty at night here is sort O. cu
$ off from every one. If he should bf
e taken sick anyways sudden, as people i:
$ sometimes, you know, why he nigh
die here, and no one know the difference
q I remember once, over the Essex Mar
II ket Station, in New York, there was
i fire, and every one kept waitin' ant
h waitin' for the bell to ring. After
J. while a policeman rushes up and burst
l. in the door. He found the behring's
S dead, sir-dead as a door nail, an layin
d just about as close to his lever as your
e standin' to that one over there"
The New York Times says: " If AN
DREW JOHNSON visits Washington h
- will break long-continued precedent
official etiquette having been unde,
derstood to demand that an ex-Presi
dent should not return to the capital a
4 citizen or outside politician after tn
inauguration of his successor" This
quite erroneous. JOHN Quincy Al
" ANS retired from the Presidential chai
~ - on the 4th of March, 1928, and in tn
', following year was elected to Congress
>. taking his seat in December, 1881
" He continued to represent his nativ
district in that body for seventeen years
and surpassed nearly all the members i
close application to business and endu1
D. ance. On the 21st of February, 184s