The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-25

as she could spare the time and then
 hurried back to her sick husband.
 About ten days after her first visit to the works the Delaware river got on a rampage and the whole plant was flooded There was no smoke arising from the stacks when she got there the following mornng-S -Saturday-and only two men were about the plant. They were sit ting in the office of the shipping clerk One of them was Samuel K. Bracket, who died recently, after having been em- ployed in the works nearly 69 years. She asked what was the matter-why the men were not at work. They told her the men had gone home because there was no one to put them to work. The su- peritendent had quit He had left with 1Lli warning--left this sorely tried woman ia the hour of her trouble. He had been with the Fishers 30 years. All he said when leaving was that he didn't like petticoat government.
 One of the two men present was Hen- drickson, the shipping clerk. Mrs. Fisher appointed him superintendent then ad there. Then she set the two men to work cleaning up the machinery of mud and muck. At noon the rest of tho employees came around for their money. They were dressed in their Sunday clothes. She asked them if they wanted to go to work rSat afternoon or the next morning getting things shipshape. They decided on gslne to work the next morning. At 6.45 o'clock Monday morning the Eagle Ansfl works was going as usual. Hendrickson was in charge.
 All this time Captain Fisher knew notn- ing of the situation in the works. He was passed through the most critical portion of his illness. Tuesday there was to be consultation of physicians. Dr. James way, the famous New York specialist, had been called in. That same day Mrs. Fish l CT had given instructions for the cupoia tender to go ahead with the casting.
 | She was awaiting the arrival of the phy-
 sicians when the telephone rang. It was
 | Hendrickson. He had disagreeable news
 | but had to tell 1t. The cupola tender had died-died as he was tapping the furnace Hardly had she gotten over the shock of this news when the telephone rang
 1 again. It was to inform her that an old
 l old friend of Captain Fisher had just died
 l She sighed as she hung up the phone
 | But this was only the beginning. Among | the callers in the house at the time was Senator Little, who had got up from 1 a sick bed to come around 10 se> how Captain Fisher was progressing. The strain was too much and he collapsed. Mrs. Fisher hurried to get restoratives, sending one servant TOT thls anu ahoe"e' for that She has an elevator in the house. She had an Irish maid The maid in her l excitement got her foot caught between the floor of the car and the floor of the house at the second story. Mrs. Fisher hurried upstairs, steped into the elevator and with great care lowered the car enough to release the girls foot. She must have had strong nerves, for had she made the slightest mistake she wo1'f have crushed the bones in the maids foot. But the maid got her foot released with no bones broken, and when she was free she did very womaniy thne-she fairta' With Senator Little down stairs in a collapse and the maid up stairs in a faint. pr. Janeway and the specialists arrived. Mrs. Fisher had to divide her time be- tween the stricken statesman. the stricken maid and her sick husband. The day end ed well with her after all. for the report of the physicians was reassuring.
 Captain Fisher recovered in time, and