The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-25
MASTERPIECE IF
 MOVING PICTURES To Be Shown at Orphans Home
 Carnival. FIREMAN'S VIVID DREAM A Series of Life Moving Pictures That Literally Bring the Spectators
 Cheering to Their Feet.
 Edison's Greatest Work.
FIREMAN'S VIVID DREAM

Work on the grounds where the Or phans' Home carnival is to be held next week will commence this morning, and each succeeding day of the present week will witness the rapid growth of the fairy city
 l A seven-foot fence will enclose the space that has been allotted to the Or phans' Home for it's carnival extending on both sides of Second avenue from Seventeenth street west to Fourteenth street. including several vacant lots and cross streets When the work Is all completed the streets will be swept as clean as the proverbial pin, and the va cant lots put in the finest kind of apple pie order
 Committeeman Peter Houppert expects a carload of Asiatic camels to arrive to- day, direct from Cairo, Egypt, via New | York The camels were ordered last wln- ter by Colonel Mundy, who hoped they would reach him in time for the opening of the season at San Antonio. Texas, last week. but when it became certain that
 
 for the big festival at that place he or dered the strange shipment to be made out of New York. upon the arrival there of the camels, to Peter Houppert and the Rev Father P. A, O'Reilly here. The camels reached New York last week and are due in this city today. They VI be used for public conveyances during the carnival next week up and down the oriental esplanade.
 The Moving Pictures.
 One of the most prominent of the att fractions to be presented by the Great ! Mundy Amusement company will be the Lotta Show. where in addition to the regular features and acts of that attrac- ton, an extensive series of Edison's lat est moving pictures will be shown. They are the latest and most timproved of Edi- sons electroscopie films.
 Among these remarkable films is one set in particular that has created more enthusiastic comment in New York city where 1t has been shown, than anything else of the kind that was ever given the public.
 The scenes of pictures is an extra long one and carries the spectators clearly and concisely from the opening scene in the fire chiefs room at one of the engine houses on down to the grand finale. A synopsis of "The Fireman's Dream tells of the sleeping chief in his chair at the fire department, a vision of his own home in flames, with his wife and baby in danger of perishing by the fire; then the fire alarm near at hand aWakens 1 him with a start; the number of the box from which the alarm has been turned in is that of the one but half block removed from his own residence; im- pressed and afraid that his dream of but moment before Is true, he leaps into his chiefs wagon and Is on his way. Meantime the arousng of the fremen in the engine house is seen the instantane- ous hitching of the fine big horses, the falling into place of every fire laddie and the start for the scene of the confia- grafton.
 At this juncture the scene changes and the fire department, engines, hose wagons and ladder trucks are seen un- der full speed on their way. The view is taken on a boulevard and Is an excel l lent one.
 On come the magnificent horses, each one doing his best, but fast as they move, the wagon bearing the fire chief, who is well nigh distracted with fear that his family is in danger, seems fairly to fly past the rest.
 Scene of the Fire. | The scene of the fire is reached. It Is | the chiefs own home. The house Is wrapped in flames and at an upstairs window is seen the wife and baby, pray ing and pleading with the assembled crowd for help. No one dares to enter the seething furnace of heat, until the chief dashes up, leaps from his wagon and with no thought of himself or dan ger, grabs a convenient ax, bursts in the lower door, rushes into the blazing house and is gone.
 | Again the scene changes and the spec l tators are with the chief in the flames and smoke He blindly gropes hls way upstairs and into the presence of his wife and baby. both of whom are then unconscious. At this instant the window I of the room is crashed by the placing in position of ladder In the hands of the hremen, and in another moment with the aid of the brave men, the chiefs wife and baby are rescued and carried down | the ladder midst the cheers of the spec tators in the picture as well as those who have viewed this masterpiece of moving 1 picture art in reality