Albuquerque citizen., 1907-10-08
BIG FIRE SHOW
IS THE REAL
THING
Great Crowds Attended First
Performances Of Famous
Production Monday.

At 1880 last evening the Fighting
the Flames company gave a pa
Tade with their fire fighting appara-
tus through the streets OF the city
and the crowd which tolloWeo
them back to the show enclosure
was allowed to buy tickets for the
exhibition. At s o'clock the grand
stand was well filled with people
and the big curtain which stretches
in front of the tiers of seats was
dropped and the show commenced.
The show opens with street
scene showing an ordinary CITY
crowd walking on the sidewalk,
children playing games in the street,
newsboys yelling, Evening Citizen;
policemen patroling their beats, We
hicles passing, etc. The scene Is en-
acted without ostentatious burles-
que and with the excellent scenery
in the background, the picture alone
is worth the price of admission
The first exciting incident to oc-
cur is the arrest ot a newsboy; theh
the usual life of the street goes on
until a number of snots are heard IN
the direction of Mixes saloon, A
bar room murder has taken place
and in short or1er the police patrol
dashes up and Two women are tax
en- out of the saloon with a male
companion and hurried on to the po-
lice station
It's All shown.
The next incident is a street fght
between two women and the inter-
ference of a policeman who is strip
ped of his official regalia and put
to flight A man is injured by ne
ing run over by an automobile ana
later policeman is killed in thrill
ing street fight with a tough char
acter. .
who gives exhibitions of extracting
teeth without pain-to himselt-de-
livers a lecture to an assembled crowd
and illustrates mis- art upon brave
first Jerk Upon trying to collect
fee for pulling the boys tooth, ne
is pulled from his automobile and
chased down the street
The Fire.
A street parade led 10y a German
band is the next feature and after
this an alarm of fire is heard. An
explosion takes place in the paint
shop next door to the Asbestos hotei
and in a moment flames are nouceu
coming out of the windows. BY the
time the fire cmpany arrives the
paint shop is filled with flames and
smoke and the hotel catches fire.
The work of the fire company IN
putting out the fire, and rescuing
the trapped patrons of the hotei
from the upper stories is carried out
in exactly the same way as Is done
at a real fire and the audience was
not slow to appreciate the splendid
performance Men and women were
carried down ladders, some leaped
into the life nets, some slid down
the life rope, but all were rescued
and carried into the drug store on
the opposite street corner. At the
climax of the fire the roof of the
paint shop falls in. The hose of the
fire company is kept playing upon
the flames and by the time the cur
tain is raised the fire has been ex-
tinguished.
Pete and Con.
One of the most interesting fea-
lures of the show Is the lightning
hitch of the two famous veteran fire
horses. Pete and Con. for many
years active members of the Denver
fire department. These two are
hitched to the hose wagon in as
short time as it takes to tell of the
act and they run through hoops of
fire on the way to the wagon.