The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-28

TO take w seriously. and said she knew the glrls
could put out the fires and there was 20 need 70
worry. They always had put out ME nres' ana
she supposed they always would. sublime oohh-
dence IN our fire brigade, wasntI'
Susan, ! sometimes wonder II We aren over
confident said he senior, with portenious sIlem-
nifty. Now, about going 10 the diiis, ! ha.e
cut every one this year. They have ruhg ID ihe
calls Just after dinner 50 ! have formed a napH
oi gong out through Pembroke East ana spehu-
ing half an hour reading In Taylor, hen l come
back and the cons, is clear: II | hea, a run.or OF
a drill at some other time | take similar care NOV
night, | turn out the light and hide. let am
sure AM not perfect In The drill. Can YOU reSiie
the order Of action, according 10 that 1o9Se ,has
il posted above all the ire'alLrms' All the rev
girls are requested 10 commi, 1t To memory, ou'
n~olling is said to the old girls about not forget
Ting o,,, ~. ,,c,,os, ,,., % ro,,,sd Susan.
4 always look At the card rs ! go 20 the drii ara
catch up the lnlprrN- ion Tor the moment ana hoi
for keeps, know that ] will not be the first girl
on the spot, 81 | never look AT the first numbers
The trst girl takes charge unlll an officer arrives,
does she not And then every girl calls out her
, number according In the order " her arrival
The first two go through tho hall To shut win.
q doHs and doors ard transoms, 10 preNonta drausht
Tie rcSt Two get the chemicals, the next the SAND
buckets, and the next the water buckets. The
. ras' take their stand by The hose, Some one sees
thai, IN" tire escape Is clear, | don't remember
the details
IN my own case, know II is sometimes because
I have on a good gown and an afraid Of soiling
= 1t, and sometimes because ! have on a wrapper ana
, have settled down for an evenings work. But
think more usually II In because II SEEMS foolish
end aimlsss 10 pretend there Is a fire when there
isn't"
objection to drills comes from our sci conscious
ness. The girls Who, like Jane, think OF the
possible fire and not Of themselves have no OBJ
iections."
Did you hear what they did in Denbigh last
week" asked Susan. They rang the alarm
at 9 O'Clock in the morning, when every one WAS
..l.a.N s"l pte all TIA evirIg ratlnh thA dTll
Just to see how they would act In an emergency,
| believe some girls who slept in bedrooms opening
of the studies failed to hear the alarm and dtd
not wake al all In n real fire, 81 course, tho
girls who call out the stragglers would find them.
ST. that isn't as bad AZ 1t sounds They had a
hard time IN Marion, too, las, week, The gap
tam rang the real alarm instead Of the. call To
drill, 50 as 10 get n fun attendance. The cap,
tain here tried that once, and when the girls found
to their rooms and refused to drill a, all So i!
has never been tried since, ! think the girls
position was justified. II We should ever get
TO disregarding the real fire alarm, and saying.
That's nothing but q call 10 drill We might
get caunh, in our rooms when there rea lly wos
danger As /, is. our response to the real alarm
Is as prompt and general es you could wish,
4 Ike real fires, said the senior. 1have been
in three already | was in that one in East,
where they broke one Of the chemicals. over
On top Of Tie chemical Then the girl was angry
because her china was hEoken. She said, She
could have put the fire out herself without making
SuNH y fl'rr u 1pbl' 'HC Ns' shAh thn' " ''''
Of lut'lrg a FIR ou' was 10 carry. the blazing
fragments through NE corridor and dump them
IN the bs,htuh She Was engaged IN doi ing
alarm was rung in spite Of her
"Iiave YOU noticed" asked Susan, that the
girls obiec, 10 ringing in the olarm' They night
hs long as ttey can alone and call for help only
when they see the flames are getting tie better
Of them. They insist, too, on having the sand
sand is clean and will not spoil their things,
You knew about the fire in ~iarriet's room, didn't
you? Ii is a case in point, and besides, 1t IL worth
telling for another reason. II was the r~!uckisst
thing ! have seen this year. Harriet Lad six
or seven girls in and was making fudge In a
chatting dish which she put on her window sill
Y did, So she proceeded, to pour in more alcohol
She had Just nut the bottle, unstopgered az II
was, IN the sill beside the chatting dish, when
Tie alcohol b"ttla was surrounded by fame.
Harriet sprang back, but Amy thrust her hand
in, seized the bottle, and ran with it into the hall
sand buckets, and with them the fire WAS put
out Whenthe whole thing WAS over some one rang
and a rule issued Tor all tie halls, forbiddlng
cooking on window sils henceforth and ior-
ever, and requesting more urgently than beflre
the rro mrt use ci the alarm Amy WAS inter
viewed afterw.rd by the head Of the Fire De
ppiairi and her quick vi, csSc did tie only sensible
things that were done), she was reprimande
for having. mt out the fire without calling for
assistance"
"'Thp opposite Of all that happened IN East last
month" said the senior, "A girl got frightened
because the wall Of her room wos hot to touch.
She called every one 10 her assistance. Two
girls sat w with her all night 10 watch, and in
the morning they tore Out part ri the wall in her
closet. They then discovered that the heat
en- me from the open ire In the room below, pouring
up through he chimney"
'"Qreet isn't It" chimed in Susan, when some
one smells smoke al midnight and gets the mistress
and half n dozen girls 10 pAThding through the
corridors ard cellars N hunt for A FIRE that doesn't
-. \ I-A. a.An that A. 49, to-. IA l.
always the result Of a smoking lamp or an excited
Imagination"
AS a matter Of fact, We have very few fires,
announced the senior, after q pause. we oc-
casiunplly have n little trouble from slcohol lanps
and that is oil. Tie college regulations are, I
they are firmly fastened N the wall. That is 50
they cannot blow out above the lamp, No filing
~ alcohol lamps in N. room with a light. No
cooking with gas, although that, | am sure, is
mo-, a preCaution hut an economy, beca use NJ
thosa girls who used IN have gas stoves with
ovens md several burners. No lamps except
the s,udentlArlps furnished by the college. Those
lamps not 10 be carried through the corridors.
And. finally, no canton flannel in the room"
"ThNt lest regulation, said Susan. is the
most sensible Of the lot. We had a bad FIRE from
canton flannel d~rnperies in boa rdirg school. I
have always remembered it because he matron
wont ,rot,ing back and forth with bundles n old
now snam rs which she threw on the fla mes under
the imrression tha, she was helping TO pu, them
out. We had 10 hold her by main force"
Think" began the senior, scornfullv. But
she never told wha, she thought, for there CO m
q knock NJ the door and then the quick entrance
~ Mary and Jare. As Jane lighted the lamp
two girls in rumpled evening dresses rose blinking
from the couch The subject Of fires and Of drills