The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-07-31
FIRE-ESCAPES.
utilized as Sleeping Places by the Poor
of New York.
New York Harald

utilized as sIeeping-PIsces by the Poor
of New York.
New York Herald.
What bay-w indows and verandas are to
the wealthy and fashionable fre-escapes are
to the poor and lowly who dwell in the
tenement-houses. Happily it Is seldom
when you compare the number of fires with
the number of tenement-houses-t they
are called into reqaisition as means OF
escaping from the devOuring element be-
leYe that there is law against using them
for any other purpose, but IL can't be
enforced. just as inev t2bly as water
flows down hill so in hot we ather
will people seek the cooler nook, spot
or corner they can find. And in a Ereat
many houses that place is the fre-escape,
by day as well as by night. IL u hsnnassec
be on the shady side of the street IL Drae-
tically adds another apartment III the SUM
mer to the fortunate possessor on room
abutting on one. There are many peoDie
who regularly sleep on fFe-eseapes when
the weather gets warm enough 60 arouse
the prOfane ire of the average mortal. And
they count themselves very fortunate IN
being able to do it-aln0St as fortunate as
those people who every summer are able to
abandon their town mansions for palatiai
cottages" by the seas
had never entertained very high opin-
ion OF my waSherwoman. She is fat, her
bOoC boo q SCAcotiai ttlUtucS aUu ueI TAU
guage IS not restrained by any considerations
for rules OF grammar or pronunciation.
The last lot of washing she brought in
wasn't at all up TO the standard, which
served TO remind me that the lot before had
not been altogether immaculate | asked
my wife to tell her that If she Didn't do bet
Ter we would have to find some other woman
10 do the washing. Despite her marriage
vows OF Implicit obedience my wife merely
asked the woman why the washing was not
as well done as formerly.
Plase, man." said the washerwoman,
almost as soon be tellin' lies as maxim
excuses. which l amt niver done &c yais
yet. It's not fur the likes O. me TO be pa
radln' my private affairs before the likes 0 :.
you, man, but / can't answer your .ques-l
tin without a-doin 1t. So. beggin your
pardin. man, l must tell yer that outside
me bedroom there be fire-eseape. an y DO
there me- an me two children have beam 2
shiapin' this hot weather, bekase IT'S ST.
stIfiin' hot inside. But Mrs. McEadden.
MAN. Is poor wilder wot lives IN tns
same tenement, just across the ball from
me. She's got very sick baby, m am,
and she amt go no ire-escape outside
her room, an the doctor said as how her
baby must get some fresh air nights or
would niver git no better, so w0t could 1 do
M am, but let her an her poor baby snlapf
in my fire-eScape nights these last twf
weeks, while me an me two children shleps
inside. But it's been so hot that woJ witt
the young ones q t0Ssln' an fTettin' =
didn't get much SHAPE meself, M am. an Z.
tell the truth, man, I've been so worn ouss
in conscience that / amt been abie I'D
put as much elbow erase Begin yot1
pardin' fur usin' such langwidge--inio the
washIn' as ought 10 a'uoue.s "A SparhaDsf
III am, you might be satisfied with maxim
reducshun in the price. an / promise yot
m am, I'll try to have 1t done better ne
time"
NV wife says that no matter how bad a
washing may be I'll have 10 stand 1t.