The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-03-03
NO BUILDING FIRE PROOF.
THAT ~. ~ THERE'S ENOt On or THE
FIRE. SAYS CHIFF CROKER.
Expert Advice on How to Behave In a strange
Hotel or BOARDING. House More Fire.
Escapes Needed building. Better PRO.
tected The FIreman,s Hard Life.

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tected The Fireman's Hard Life.
YOU know ! always Say that there ism
such a Trims ~ a frcproof building, said
Thief Croker Of the Fire Department in answer
10 a SIN reporters question There's moth.
lhg that fire wont down. # there's enough OF
the FIRE
Now, I'm not AFRAID Of fire whom it- in tho
line Of my work. but I'm not taking chances
on brollius Nou don't get me into a room
on one Of the top floors Of a big II tel fire.
proof or not dreproof Not much, Nv.
attended too many hotel nrc- and my memory
l. too good III take a fourth or nth door
room at u pinch That, higi euough. thanks
And Ill take ~ hotel with fire ESCAPES.
even II It 1, a trifle ~hy ou ONYX and plush
There isn't money enough lying around to
persuade me- to 60 to bed ~ q strange hotel or
house without hr-t locating the fire escapes
and S~talrway- and sizing up the dJoining
roofs and having n look at the distance from
my window to the street When I've don.
all that and clearly decided Just what Id
do IN ca" "f fire, | go TO sleep and sleep like
a loe. but II don't go through that ere drill
I'd probably lie awake listening FOR the alarm
IF there isn't a FIR. escape handy To my
room. | want a rope For that matter. If
| had my way. every hotel room would have
" VIC Nv NAV ~ NIbl 'll'I Ilf IfbNlNllis
IT had 4 great many Of them do have ropes
tucked away where no one could ind them
! always hunt them up aud cod them by the
window Some hotels and boarding houses
have ROPES fastened TO ~tanChion> near the
window. but people don't Ike It They saw
II makes them nervous TO bU reminded OF
the chance 81 fire There's common sense
for YOU Id rather he reminded OF the fire
than hot he reminded ~ a chanc" TO escape
from 1t
The trouble with rope Are escapes Is that
so few persons krow how to u.. them |
can 30 down a rope hand over hand easily
enough. because I'm not very FAT md am In
training, bur p fat old party who hasn't seen
a gymnasium IN twenty ycar-. isn't very
agile on a rope There i.n't one woman IN "A
thousand who can hold on and let herself
down easily
Most people take hold Of the rope and slide
until the friction burns and cuts their hands
Then they fail OF iou remember how 1t
was at the Windsor Hotel fire It, good
thing To take "A twist Of the rope around one
leg, bat the great thing i To- keep cool That's
the one important rule IN Ere. Keep cool "
II sounded ike II Joke. aud THt Z re-
porter looked NJ the Chief obviously, but the
great man was grimly serious
Even II one remembers the rule, II doesn't
always seem possible go follow It. suggested
the reporter sravcly
40. but II people would only keep cool
ther"'d be few serious casualties from fire
The theory seemed sound
~uTp"~" II l. natural Tor a man 10 lose
hi nerve and iumu when tho flame, ara after
l,. ~ ill.,.
'''' NV ~" ''' " "''"
or woman on m" Nindp" sill ~ a burning
room. but in ~ many cases lust a moment or
a. ,,,L, 80, a.. s,.,. ,.. 49,
''"' 3D. NV "''''''' INV VI " ''N'"''
ana lives ar" lost ue"di">sIN
The modern buildings aren't n-eproo'
h,, ,,o, ~ .u h,r,,,, ~
chaUc" 10 keep mo 0re from sIred dirs In
them. and If il doe, ,pread II don.n't 20 with
- e., ia l,.nJ,,, ~.
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are that 0nN person with a ley"Ihead and a
kr,NIedye Of the exits C,uld e.,4u, from, thu
h,, a. .
""' '"'N" nv W. 'h"'S' '"' ''''|'"
who puts M ~ % hotel doesn't seem To have
Tho buiIdinv luV- nf Now york ara in.
"'"'"'' "''''' va NV "'' ''' '"' "'
gettlng better aI tu" time. Hnd thor" = NOR"
cNnrt 10 enforce the laws. but there's enough
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" W. ''"' y" :" ',' y 'N WIZ -"
introduce" nv" an "d hu'liiia wont InhN"
u -af" You cnrt have a M" escape AZ every
ulud,v Won can rYt rod HyIt.ot tho fir.
~,
escapes ana e'air'a-"S' hu' the stars ar" h'i''
near tho elevator, aui both max" -uch q -ul"n-
o.