Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-03-17
BOWSER'S FIRE ESCAPE.
HIS DISASTROUS TRIAL OF THE
NEW APPARATUS.
Mrs RowAer Describes Her WorSer
IaH-s --latest Experiment His
Ardor Cared by Fall.


delivered at the house several strange
packages, and when Mr.. Bowser came
NJ III the evening hr explained that they
We're fire escapes.
= What for r.
. For the house, Of course"
Bar We don't need any fire escapes
on our house, Mr. Bowser"
> Don't We. Well. we shall have
them Just the same If you want 10 be !
/ burned have no ob jectlon, but propose
J to 'ttfe some other wavn
/ : You never said there was any dan
/ gch
/" lccauSe didn't want to make yon /
nervous. \ a matter of fact haven't
/ tc.t safe any night for year.
And now the danger Will be obvi t
ated !"
1t viii be reduced to the minimum. !
certainly. Even if we wake TN and
find our bedroom on fire we shall hc able
TO escape with onlea scorch.'
Alter supper he carried the parcels up
stairs. There were several bottles and a
f., couple Of wire racks, 4 hand fire eNtln
gul~hcr, and rope and pully and other
stuff.
Where would q fire he likely TO start
IN the house, asked Mr. Bowser as he
was l,Ning a hook in the casing Of our
bedroom window.
Down stairs probahly.'
W ell, we have a front and back stairs,
and here are llrce chamber windows open
lng on on ycranta ru0fS. Couldn't we
escape hV some Of these wavsI
If thought we could wonld be fool
enough to 90 and throw away $50 on this
appHatusG he an"rllv demanded.
II suppose YOU know best"
Mrs Bowser when don't know last
! will resign While YOU have never
given the subject Of tIrc-cscapes one sin
Gle thought, | have devoted years Of
study to it. Take our wal-cycd darling
and 30 down stairs, and when want YOU
Will call :
In about an hour he called. lie was in
great 900 nature lie had the hook
firmly in place, and hlnging to it was a
rope and some sort ofhHrne>S.
1t isn't much Of an ornament to our
bedroom, ycnturcd t. observe.
What has ornament cot to do with
fire escapes. Isn't your life worth more
to YOU than the daily presenne of a tea
store chromo2 The escape is now ready
"i'or vhat.'
! ''To escape by, Of course. Here is
Il tie situation: 1t is midnight The cook,
while ruma@ng about in search Of her
lost puiI of gum, has dropped lighted
: matches under the frontsand back stairs
5 The flames, have been smnudering for
. hours They row break forth with sud
den fury, cutting of oar escape from
{ either stairs
I And we. crawl out on the vcran la
a roofs
: DO we Not much, Wcstart to do
r so but we find that All the vcrandas have
7 fallen to The ground the supports hay-
(, ing been hcavcd out by the frost"
q "Wcl.'
Il 'Wcll, We awake with the crackle Of
u flames III our ears. While you wrny
= Your hands and declare that We are lost,
e | calmly secure all the money, leWelry
! and valuable papers and cooliy maxi
/ preparations to escape calmly pull
down the rope and harness, seat yolizand
% tie baby therein, and the next moment
y You are landed on the ground. | folio"
II ju~t rs he engines arrive, and the papers
y ot the next morn'n. chronicle my won
!, dcrlUl self possession in the fac Of awful
I danger
- And can YOU 20 down by that rope
; and harness..
I, Can | Can you chop wood with an
u aNl What j, Il for except 70 20 down
Is ou?"
:. y would almost as soon bc burncd II
a> 10 try it / don't believe you wouI,
G dare 10 20 down On it,
d Mrs BoNSer, shat a wife believe
u and what Il husband hnors arr two dlf
i l,rent thin4- | II likely that ! won't
u purchase MS apparatus and put it ~