The evening world., 1894-08-23
USED W0MANLY Wit.
A Waiting Crowd Cleverly Eluded
by Janitress Wilson.
Two Pretty Girls Rescued from an
Embarrassing Position.
They We're Locked in u Big West
Side Factory Building.

The gossips of old Greenwich Village
are telling to-day of the thrilling expe-
rience last evening OF two pretty girl
/ employees OF jenkins IL MCGOWAN. print
ers and book FLINDERS, OF 80 Greenwich
avenue. who were accidentally detained
! prisoners in the building for two hours
The experience is described as thrilling
from the girls point of view, for they
believed that dire calamity had befallen
Them and were accordingly hystercal.
incidentally the gosspers are lauding
ing sagacious Mry. Julia A. Wilson,
janitress of the five-story fiat at q"
Greenwich avenue, who cleverly went
to the girls rescue. and spirited them
away from under the very noses of
four or five hundred curious people ana
one Of the finest" OF Capt. Delaney's
Charles street police. While they were
devising means of liberating the girls
the latter were on their way home
rejoicing. the crowd and policeman
none the wiser until Mrs. Wilson in
| formed them.
Peculiarly enough, no one this morn
| ing appeared to know the names OF the
girls. and they are not saying any
| thing.
Jenkins & McGowans building is a
veritable bastile In appearance. The
front doors are barred and linei with
heavy wire screens. Not less than nifty
girls are employed and many more men
When the Waterman locked the doors
shortly after o'clock last evening
everybody vas apparently out of the
building About O'Clock. however, chill
dren PLAYING In front of the building
| heard screams. and through an opening
| in screen on one OF the doors saw the
faces Of two girls. They were crying
and beckonlng frantically through
The children told Policeman Daniel
]. Farrell, OF the Ninth Precinct, who
patrol patrols that post He came and a big
with the girls through the doors, but
they were too frightened to reply. Half
dozen storekeepers came with keys
and tried the lock, but none of them
Fully half an hour was occupied in
this manner. Then a bombastic old
frantically until he got red in the face.
Open that door!' he shouted to
Policeman Farrell. ~
Break the door down." shouted the
there I'd do it,
mo. you Wouldn't" almost screamed
the man In his anger. FOR I'd give you
g, and that's all you fellers want. any
| howl"
Farrell clustered and the old man
subsidized after thus relieving his mind.
| Somebody suggested that a ladder be
procured from Fire Er CINE House 16. in
| Tenth street. and this was made known
to the prisoners. But with all their
fright and desire to be free. the idea OF
climbing down. the ladder from the Sec
ond floor to be gazed at by the big
NO"
Meanwhile. Janitress Wilson had man
telling the girls to 60 to the roof and
Immediately disappeared. the crowd
didn't know where.
Mrs. Wilson went to the roof Of her
fiat. where, luckily, she had a ladder.
| This she raised to the roof OF the fac
tory building, and the girls came down.
Mrs. Wilson then took them through
the house into the cellar. She smashed
out window In a partition dividing the
cellar from that next door, No "a, and
boosted the girls through. Then she
followed. and let them quietly out of
the front door, and they disappeared
up Greenwich avenue.
Then she told Policeman Farrell what
she had done.
But l want their Names" exclaimed
| the policeman.
| Get uni" she laconically replied.
| Just then somebody came up with a
ladder, to take the girls out Of the sec
ond-story window.
Mrs. Wilson doesn't know the girls
| names.