Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-11-30
We Will Help You to
Save Safely
TIetrDer
8abtHgs AND Crust G9
hAssu0suu
Says 1t Depends on
Who Is Tying o. Knot
Whether 1t Is or Not
Kathleen, After Visit to Fire
Congress, Decides She VIII
Rot Be Rescued.
Bv KATHLEEN MCKEE.

According to the Indiana State fire
marshal the best way to prevent fire
Is to put it out. Anyway. all those hose
nozzles. automobile headlights, graduated
Ere extinguishers and patent attachments
used In the art OF eliminating G fire
which 1 saw at the fire congress at the
Coliseum were things Of beauty only TO
be rivaled by the Christmas tree decoIa-
tons at the 10-cent store. Nor were they
the only attraction on the program. for
Leon L. Wolf of Cincinnati, who is tour
ing the country gratuitously. giving
demonstra tons IN scientific methods Of
fighting fires, was something to arrest
the attention in his white Atwood raj
ment.
When I arrived on the scene Mr.. Wolf
was the center OF an admiring crowd.
with unconcern he was tying an insig-
nificant piece Of rope in knots. Now, a
knot sounds like common ordinary
knot, but it's not, at least not when Mr..
Wolf does 1t. In all my experience with
knots I never was introduced to so many
members Of the knot family, having al
WAYS been under the impression that
there were knots which stayed tied and
those which didn't. However. Mr.. Won
introduced me to the Blackwell Hitch
the Square Knot. the Granny, the Span
Ish Burton. the Carrick Bend, the Sheet
Bend, the Cat'spaw and the Rolling
Hitch. Then. as a final to the act he
gave US a special Introduction TO the
Bowline which he assured us was the
most important knot ever tied.
THREW THE
ROPE AROUND HIM.
Then he seized on a victim and tied
him like as though he were n water cask
TO be swung aboard in a heavy sea and
assured his audience that he couldn't
move his arms If he wished. which we
already knew. BY that time we knew
how to save man by tying him up IN
q rope.
Then we had 4 little course IN the art
of picking Up a man. There are sew
eral ways you can perform this feat
You can do it yourself or you can let one
or two people help you. or course the
most heroic way is to do IL yourself
After little practice in this, 1 decided
I might be able to pick up our office
cat without dropping her. II caused me
considerable debate to decide whlcn
looked the most awkward; the man DO.
ing the picking NJ or the Individual
who didn't know how to dispose OF his
feet when he was picked"
had hopes Of seeing a free vaudeville
show when the ladder instruction was
staged, but I was disappointed. MT
Wolf proceeded to a moderate elevation
on the ladder which was secured below
by two individuals.
DECIDED TO
CAUTION ANYWAY.
"Novv." he said, you are just as safe
rs II the ladder were against E wall
Just then the ladder waved threaten
ingly. and Mr. Wolf yelled. Hey, can
Won hold a thing STILL" and I decided I
would prefer to do my life saving from
the wall.
About this time we had some fnstruc-
tons in the art Of lowering a ladder
from the side and from the front. sud
denly a perfectly good diminutive cat
perambuIated in front Of the lowering
ladder. The fire CHIEF stopped business
while kitty inspected the equipment. Ma
iestically she stalked across the arena
TO the stove and ladder lowering was
resumed.
Ny hopes Of melodramatic escape
from 4 burning building were to be
realized when Mr. Wolf began instrue-
tons in rescuins from a blazing struc-
ture.
"If you wanted to put a ladder at the
third story Of ten-story building. how
many feet up the wall would you place
it," he asked US Nothing doing, that
sounded too much like the nth degree
to suit me. at least you would have to do
some calculating.
At last. the fireman gracefully ascends
the ladder 10 rescue the heroine from
the burning building. Instead Of allow
ing her to put her arms around him he
ties her hands with rope to keep her
from scratching him, ] suppose. And
as the last feat to spoil the scene he pOurs
water all over her