The evening world., 1922-04-19

repeated efforts TO go down again, but
could not.
Meanwhile. Policeman Charles r.
Turk. OF Trafiic B, coming from
Seventh Avenue and 57th street, had
entered the front door of the Tape
shop and CROPPED his way to the third
fioor and 10 the back. He found
, fourteen whimpering girls at the win
A,dows.
Turk took canvas show stock covers
from q heap over which he stumbled
ripped them into strips, knotted them,
made one end fast and slid down
to the ledge OF the window below.
Bracing himself firmly there he or
dered the girls TO slide down to him
one by one. assuring them he would
catch them II they lost their grip.
The very first girl did.
Turk caught her with a laugh and
swung her over to the roof OF two
story extension OF the Van Norden
House. The girls above weren't
afraid after that and all OF them came
down TO Turk quickly and without
mishap.
= The smoke that Turk had the hardi-
hood TO go up through was too thick
and menacing for the other girls on
the upper floors. He had shouted as
best he could on his way to the rear
OF the third floor that they could go
down where he had come up. The
frightened girls were afraid 10 leave
= the windows.
The fire trucks came in time TO get
all down who had not gone over the
roofs or followed the shipping clerk
Mcdonald, out from the first moor
when he gaYe the Slarn. The men OF
Truck 35 brought down thirty-six girls
stretching up from floor to floor from
20 to IS feet.
Some of the girls. after all seemed
safely out, started an alarm that Helen
Szabei OF No. 116 East 9lst Street,
and Katharine Schug of No. 1918
Washington Avenue, had been left on
the fourth floor, where they had been
helping Miss Tape. The police made
a search and learned Miss Ssabel had
shouldered Miss Schug, who had
tainted, and carried her up close be-
hind Murphy carrying Miss Tape.
There were some small hurts for
the ambulance surgeon to attend be-
sides those of partial suffocation; An
toinette Hess. for no reason at all ex'
cept the traditions of the telephone
service, insisted on staying at the
switchboard until she narrowly es'
caped asphyxiation. Kathleen O'Mal.
ley was cut on both legs in climbing
through a window. Carolina Field
.heimer and Rosie Hofer burned the
.palms OF their hands sliding down Po.
aliceman Turks improvised fire es'
cape.
Herman p. Tape. the proprietor.
was too overjoyed over the saving OF
the lives of all his employees to at
tempt a summary of the losses caused
by the FIRE. He went from one fire.
man and policeman to another thank
ing them for their work. Under his
arm or at his heels was his pedigreed
fox terrier Jo-Jo. himself rescued from
the cellar after having barked the
alarm which led Mcdonald to discover
the fre by Mr.. Tapes secretary,
Miss Louis Smith. at the risk OF her
.iifs.
= Mr.. Tappe soon learned, however,
that SO, 900 worth of gowns and hats
prepared for shipment 10 Mrs. George
w. Vanderbilt and Miss Cornelia Van
derbilt, who are in Washington. had
been altogether ruined. Goods worth
81, 900 ready for Mrs. William Ran
dolph Hearst and $4,000 for Mrs.
George widener OF Philadelphia were
also among the total losses.
When It was all over, everybody
A. k.as fa oVxA N A.
sering hre In the front basement which
had made ali the trouble was no longer
sending up its deadly smoke, Mr.
Tape suddenly remembered some
thing else. He ordered Miss Smith
sterniy to find out who II was that
brought that one-eyed angora cat In
here yesterday"
Mr.. Tape, after a survey OF the
building this afternoon, estimated his
loss at about $4,000.