Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-09-06
ABLAzE ON BROADWAY
Actress With Flaming Hair Stirs
New York's Main Street.
TRIES A NEW TREATMENT.

6enzine on Her Flowing Locks Con-
meets With a Lamp With Disastrous
Results-But She Hangs on to Her
Bull Pup.
A woman with her unconfned hair
ablaze and her shirt waist putting
smoke broke into the Sunday quiet of
Broadway. New York city, near For
tleth street, with the shrillest screams.
She had rushed out Of the hairdressing
establishment at 124 West Fortieth
street, which has the one word Com
pani' on the window
A group of actors switching slender
canes stood near the curb in front of
the Empire theater. They ran to the
corner and beheld the suffering wom-
an, who, in spite of her predicament
and pain, was hanging to a leather
: strap, at the end of which was a bull
pup. The hairdresser, Brutus Compa-
nj, was following her, waving his
| uullQS lIdl1tlCdllg dDONC lis hNtlbE :
was not until the excitement had pref
ty we'll died down that it was learned
that his gesticulations We're not the re
suit Of mere concern for the woman
his own hands We're badly burned.
| In a moment the actors and others
who arrived had lifted the woman's
| skirt over her head and had eXtinguish-
ed the fire. While they were leading
her and her dog back into the hair
dressing establishment the changing of
fire engines, which were coming in re-
spouse to an alarm, added to the ex-
element and helped to swell the crowd.
The first firemen to arrive bOlted in
to the hairdresser's establishment, saw
the woman rocking and swaying on a
chair and went out again and mo
toned to the drivers to go back to theiI
quarters.
The policemen who arrived demand
ed facts.
~ am Miss Maud Rodney said the
woman. "Yes, 1 am an actress. 1 live
at 1871 West Forty-ninth street. l had
an appointment with this man to have
my hair treated by new method-tht
antiseptic method, 1 think he calls it,
81 had my hair down and was sitting
against this glass here. That lamI
which you see there was burning as
you see it now.
"Suddenly my hair blazed up, Oh, i
was an awful thing! Some of the stuff
went down my back. It's badly burn
ed. Yes, I'm glad l was able to keep il
from my face
Some one had promised the suffering
woman to send for a cab, but it was
slow in arriving Meanwhile Compan
was trying to explain.
at was dees way" he stammered
"Dees lady was sitting here-herC
against the glass. My lady-my lady
assistant-she close up last night. Sht
left dees light-lamp you call it-burn
ing. / did not know it. In my antisep
tic method 1 use something like ben
zine. 1t caught fire. Then the lady''
hair caught fire. Pouff, like this!
"In Paris there was a case like dees
l read it in the Paris paper. 1t sale
that you must throw something oyel
the lady's head. did it. 1 burned my
hand, too-See"
The injuries to Miss Rodney were
burns on her forehead, neck, shoul
ders, back and hands. Her hair was
spoiled Compani seemed anxious t.
get Miss Rodney out of his place ant
occasionally said something abou
sending her to a hospital if the cal
didn't come.
"Keep STILL" flared up Miss Rodney
"Be glad you're not arrested"
An ambulance from the New Yorl
hospital arrived first Miss Rodney de
clared she wouldn't go 10 a hospital
DR.. Treadwell pleaded with her to g
to the hospital, and finally she in
CURED;
"Well, will you let Toys, my dog, g
with me?
When informed that she might bring
the dog along she consented to 60,