Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-06-13
SHE USED HER STOCKING.
Chicago Girls Locked In a Store Find a
Novel way to Get Out.

Novel Way to Get Out.
Three pretty young milliners employed
at l52 State street were locked in the store
for several hours the other night, and it
was not until o'clock the next morning
that they were released. At 10 o'clock,
when Manager Stumer left the place, he
told the night watchman that every one
had left the building. The watchman has
no key and he could not get out of the
store himself even if he desired.
An hour after Mr.. Stumer had gone the
three young women, who had been trim
ming hats all the evening upon the fifth
hoor, put on their wraps to go home They
were terrified at finding the hall door
bolted. One of them pounded on the door,
but she could not make the watchman hear
the noise. Then the trio began to beat q
tattoo, at the same time calling to the
watchman: "Jakel Jakel Come up stairs
and let us out. We are locked in" But
the watchman was sweeping away down
ON the first floor and he did not hear their
frantic appeal.
After pounding on the door ten or fifteen
minutes and receiving no response from
Jake the young women sat down and had
good cry. Big fat tears coursed down
the cheeks of fluffy haired brunette who
said her mother would be sitting up wait
ing for her. From tears the young women
changed to laughter, and then they tried
to arrest the watchman's attention with
snatches of song. But he was deaf to mu-
sic and industriously kept on chasing a
broom over the first floor.
After they had sung Home, Sweet
Home" a dozen times without receiving
any applause they stopped and began to
cry 'Jakel Jakel' in unison. Jake was
full of business, however, and his thoughts
were far from the fifth floor. In despair
the young women threw their combined
weight against the big door, but it never
budged. "Oh, dear" they cried out, "must
we stay here all nightf Jake, Jake, won't
you please come up stairs and let us outp"
But Jake never heard them.
1t was now 12 o'clock and the imprisoned
milliners, tired out from their frantic eff
forts to break down the oaken doors, be-
gan to shed tears again. They gave up all
hope of attracting the watchman's atten-
tion, but even if he had heard them it
would have done no good. One of tho
young women, more daring than her COM
panions, volunteered to climb down the
fire escape in the rear of the store
After reaching the ground she was to go
to Manager Stumer's residence and he
would come to the store and release the
other two. The daring milliner threw up
window and clambered out ON the fire
escape, her companions wringing their
hands and imploring her to be careful
She got down to the fourth floor, when her
courage failed and she clambered up again
like a real fireman. For the next hour
they cried and laughed and sang and
pounded at the door at intervals, but the
watchman was too busy with the broom
to hear them.
About l o'clock the fluffy haired bru-
nette hit upon happy plan to get COM
munication with the outside world. She
was drying her eyes after having good
cry when her gaze fell on a tin pail. The
pail was to convey message to the street
below and some passer by would see it. But
they had no string to tie to the pail SO it
could be lowered. One of the trio pulled off
her shoe and in jiffy she began to unravel
the yarn in her stocking. The other two
looked on and laughed till they cried. But
she kept on unwinding the yarn from her
stocking until she had enough to reach
from the fifth floor to the street. Two
notes were then written.
One was addressed to Manager Stumer,
46l jackson boulevard, and the other to
the police. The notes were put into the
pail and lowered slowly to the sidewalk
AS the young women expected, passer by
saw the pail swinging in the air, and think
ing that somebody was rushing the growl-
er" he waited until it got within ten feet
of the ground. There the pail remained
The young woman had miscalculated the
distance and did not unrayel quite enough