Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-06-16
TRYING A NEW HOSE.
The Firehen Throw a Stream Over Ell
derbIOV WIS House.

They obtained new kind of hose
out in the Thirty-eighth ward re-
Gently, and after the fremen had set
up with it two or three days and
nights, making each other highly
patriotic and neatly complimentary
speeches about it, they quietly con-
cluded to give it public trial yes
terdOy afternoon. The hose is only
two squares away from the nearest
hydrant, which sets Immediately be-
fore Tr Elderblow's residence. Mrs.
Elderblow had whitewashers prom
ise and promise to do the kitchen
till she got tired waiting on them,
so she went at it herself yesterday.
She picked up an old worn out brush
by the fence in the back yard, and
went at it vigorously. She had
finished the walls of the kitchen, and
was was standing on soap box on a
chair that had been placed on top Of
the pine table so as to enable her to
reach the ceiling, when the men
started out with the hose. They
told the one-legged man who loafa
around the hose to time them from
leaving the door till he saw them
stop at the plug, and then they start
ed out'pufing and painting to the
plug, soaring the entire neighbor-
hood pale. As they stopped sud
denly and began to screw the hose
on to the plug, the hired girl. who
had been scrubbing the front steps,
went tearing through the hall to the
kitchen, where she shrieked:
"Missus, the houses air."
Mrs. Elderblow could not believe
her ears, so she expanded her eyes
and said:
"Wha-at?''
'The hus-a-fire! the hus- -a-fire!" re-
peated the hired girl, dancing with
excitement, when Mrs. Elderblow
said with calm determination, Gear
ry all the things out the back ways"
and then turning around to step
down the box, chair, brush, bucket
of wihtewash and herself came down
in heap together-but that was
nothing. She and the hired girl
rushed up stairs and began throwing
the trunks, beds, looking-glasses and
washstand out of the back windows
into the garden, being stimulated
thereto by an encouraging stream of
water which the hose was sending
over the house from the street. The
hose worked beautifully, and these
two noble women worked like he
roes at the furniture till they got
out everything on the second floor
except the carpets, and were Just
tearing that in the front bedroom
up when Mr.. Elderblow appeared on
the scene. He bed gone out in town
and after talking while to the hose
men, and expressing his opinions on
hose generally, invited them to wait
a while and he would go in and
have the women folks set up could
lunch and few bottles of beer for
them, because Eldeblow maintains it
is every mans duty to keep on the
good side of the firemen, for no man
knows at what hour of the night
his house is going to take fire. When
he didn't find his wife nor the hired
girl in the kitchen, he went up the
back stairs, and looking out of the
window saw the beds and bedding.
furniture, baggage and mirrors in
confused and disabled condition, the
one class of goods thoroughly soak
ed with mud and water, and the
other banged and smashed to pieces.
Then, as he heard ripping, tearing
/ sound, as the women were pulling
up the carpet by force, he went aud
looked into the front bed room