The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-22

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stone is left upon another. The question
of what to do in case of fire is brought
home to every person.
Suppose you are a guest in a hotel and
you are awakened suddenly by the cry of
fire. Tho first thing a hotel guest should
do on entering his room is to locate the
nearest outside fire escape. After that he
should familiarize himself with the loca-
ton of the hall windows and discover their
relation to the roof of the adjoining build
ings. He should next learn the position
of the stairs and their top and bottom
landings. The top landing particularly
he should know all bout. as well as the
method of egress to the roof. All this in
formation the guest can acquire in ten.
minutes or less. After making these in
vestigations, should a fire break out, be
knows his relative location and his yari-
Gus avenues OF escape.
Here are some rules which are good to re-
member, and some day or night they might
save your life: Should the cry of fire be
given and volumes of smoke fill the corri-
doris and the room, the thing above all
Others to do is to keep cool. Keep cool,
keep cool, keep cool, no matter how seri-
Gus the fire seems, is good advice.
NHeu SluOhc ClOSS tHo C~oII1uoIS, Aoiiow
these Instructions:
/. Keep the door and transom of the
room shut.
g. Open the windows from the. top.
8. Wet a towel and stuff it in the mouth.
Breathe through it instead of through the
nose. 1t will keep the smoke, cinders
and fire from the lungs, and its moisture
will have a revivifying effect.
4. Stand at the window and get the
benefit of the outside air.
5. Should there be q rope fire escape,
use it only when you deem it necessary
for your safety. If it is secured, as many
of them are, merely by an iron hook, twist
it several times around some solid article
in the room. Then begin your descent.
It is a dangerous experiment at best, and
there is only one safe way of doing it.
That way is this: Protect the n by
covering them with towels or anything of
a like nature. Grasp the rope firmly by
both hands, twist it once around the right
leg then, placing it between the feet. keep
them firmly together, and in that position
slide down the rope as slowly as possible.
A woman should go down the rope in the
same way. In the average case her clothes
! will hermit her to make an easier descent
than q man.
6. If possible, never let a woman or
child descend on a rope alone. The hus-
band should secure the rope under his
wife's arln place some article of furni-
ture higher than the window sill near
the window, and then let the woman de-
| scend by paying out the rope gradually.
If the child is small, it is we'll to tie it
with bedelothing to the breast or back Of
the person going down the rope.
z. Never jump unless the blaze is scorch-
ing and not then if the tiremen with their
scaling ladders are coming up the build
ing or-are near.
s. Never go to tho roof unless as a last
recourse, when you know that there is no
escape from it to adjoining buildings. In
the big buildings fire always climbs to tho
top.
9. If caught in q corridor or q roon,
always keep crouched to the floor and
keep close to the wall. Keep as low as
possible. Fire and smoke ascend.
10. If q jump must be made through
flame within q building to the lower floor,
judge the distance as carefully as possible,
| throw a blanket or covering over the head
and make tho leap. Then remove the COW
ering, breathe but little and carefully. and
work gradually along the corridor until
safety is reached.
Another thing not to forget is when the
mon in blue are in sight, don't jump.
They'll climb walls and go through smoke
and fire. Their mission is to save life,
and they'd rather die themselves than