Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1894, Page 10

§ “ While we look you me <> straight in the eye and 4 * talk Parlor Furniture. * We know you have been hesitat- ee ing because you think it a luxury, Ke s and because you have hesitated 4 na Parlor Furniture has been slow. z Now, _ we never permit any- y thing to be siow around our place. be If they don’t move themselves we < move them. So this week we're x making “hustling prices” on Par- 54 lor Furniture--prices that will pay y you toinvestigate before you spend y your money elsewhere. x Look everywhere. See all the y stocks in town, then see us, and if: De we do not give you the bestfor your 5 money then don’t buy of us. ce Carpets? Well, you know our reputation for styles, promptness and first-class work. il. HOEKE, urniture & Drapery, N. AVE. AND STH ST. - A Big Drop, FLOUR. Eiphonzo Youngs Co. te as follows: “The | BROWNIES’ FISHING PARTY,” Again in Window, At Moore’s Shoe Palace, | 810 7th St. N. W. » “Big Value” SHOES. Hill, per bbl... ‘And so on down to hat will make good breaé wome flour Ig is what you think that interests us. We take ft that you want the finest of Shoes your allotted sum can pos procure on earth—aud that aim to give you. ness—now second largest in the cit; rants us in presuming that you appre Elphonzo Youngs Co., It is Coming. i¢ both our “bargains” and our r: * 8 * ods of doing business—‘one pri That cold weather will soon be here, why eee? “money ea &e. Se oe a eee atacee parted Saturday’s Specials. Gas Heating Stoves. =| Ladies’ Shoes, $2.48. Small Hea table for i e you can ot Cloth Tops, thing of $3.50. nae ot ce | Our Price, $2.48. Ladies’ Shoes, $1.98. every ove—just the 50 and $11.25, for and sense toe. Worth $2. | Our Price, $1.98. 4 Misses’ and Children’s see % Worth Our Price, g8c. $1.50, One lot Men's Calf Shoes, * © © * Congress. Regular $3.25 Shoes. Our Price, $2.48. kro see postal or t e you promy 2° © Conzress, Regular $3.75 coeds. Our Price, $2.98. MOORE'S Shoe Palace, 810 qth St. N. W. There Are Few Women 4 4 40d — afl tro é ol tea. The great — e who do rink — to i». Fuli line of elastic hosler: RING LEAF TEA. = low prices. Fit, or money back. the finest tea brought to. this — clan in-charge. Lady attentant. country. I's better now than ever hefore—thiS year's tea crop is the best known for years. Only" Se. Th, We send {¢ anywhere, by mail or express. X. W. BURCHELL, 1325 F STREST. Berlin Truss Co., F & 12th Sts., 21a 3d floor. Take the clerator m ny v => ‘The sheemen think we sell too low! We are not interested in what they think. is what we ‘The growth of our busi- Ladies’ Hand-sewed Dongola Shves, five Worth luddiman,614 iath St One lot Ladies’ Beautiful Wizh-grade iuelaes re Iso in Cloth Tops—in Pie- Box, Opera, Square and Common- Misses’ and Children's Dongola Shoes. Men’s Shoes, $2.48. Lace and , Men’sShoes, $2.98. Another lot Men's Calf Shoes, Tace aud 4d edegedeteepenen es os At Parker, Bridget & Co.’s. 315 SEVENTH ST. 3 Great Values In Carpets, &c.,: At Rudden’s. bevel Ladies’ Wht. Ma- ple Writing Desks,) 11 O: pigeon-holed, drop-leaf..........- Oak & Birch Rock- rs, plush seat, all 5 We make and lay all carpets FREE OF COs 0 ch » for w et cl 5 colors = = = = ne HAnCLoti PAuLow Sorts $22.00). Large Arm Rattan SOLID OAK RED ROOM st $13, 2 SPLENDID BRUSSELS CARPET, 50C, PER Rockers = = = Credit House, 513 7th St. | | | —to expend in Furniture, Carpets, &., it will pay you to expend it ‘here. Or 4f you want CREDIT —it will best pay you to avail your- self challe prices: — | Solid Oak 3:=-pe. Chamber Suite, ers, cupboard = = =piece Tapestry Parlor Suite = Here is indisputable evidence that if you have MEN’S © ' CLOTHING: Best & Cheapest, SUITS, $6.75 UP. Overcoats, $7 Up. Inexpensive Overcoat luxuriousness! “Beauties” piled up mountain high. Better pick while picking is so good. The leading styles are the “Paddock,” the “Poole” and “Hopkins.” Various smooth Kerseys and rough cloths with plain and silk velvet collars. A»-- one of them would serve as an excellent del for a custom tailor. Fine Navy Blue Kersey Long Over- coats as low as $10. The $25, $30 and $40 ones are calculated to drivea man wild with joy upon possession. If you buy anything of us and find it elsewhere for less bring ours back and get ‘your money. It is absurd to think we would allow ourselves to be undersold. We know what clothing costs and we know that there is not another clothier in the city who would be satisfied with our small profit. They all claim we sell too low. We sell to suit ourselves and you—you par- ticularly? Ie, 10e. 18c. Call for the “Puzzling FREE! Puzzlers’ Puzzling Puz- ° zile’’—free. Two prizes for correct solution. Ie. Washington’s Largest “Exclusive’’ Clothiers, Ae. 18e, Be. Bho. 00, We. Be. 10¢. Be. sSeetoedondondosioatnetoeteetoegondondonieateatoateetnete enioetondoatontentonteetoegy $3.50 & $4 S Seadeetoetondontoetentoetotest 19¢. HOES. A shoe may be comfortable and le, but if it is vot shapely and bh you will never feel just right in it. Our Ladies’ $3.50 and $4 Shoes are symposiums of style and shapeliness, at the same time possessing all the substantalities of an everlasting: * wearer. Not sold elsewhere under $4 coeeee and 4 Hoover & Snyder, 1217 Pa. Ave. REAL HELP-- SH 10-4 We low r accommodating terms. ou to equal these $12 Ss a ess as as ss sd glass, at that we sh sk of you Is that you pay us 4 a little 'y ouce a week or once a mouth. 925} CREDIT E—no notes, no interest—just the kind of a promise is all we want, no use of waiting to pay cash—you can't save a penny doing xo—our credit prices are other people's cash prices—and they are marked in plain figures on everything in our store, Solid Oak Side- Bs me boards, beveled $ The vie se ag that HELPS. We extend ‘ou an invitation to come up here selec 1 glass, 2topdraw- S10: Ail thei Feralture ‘and’ Garpete Seer sece'ta| 20 : make your ise cozy and comfortable all Oak Tables, 80c. Rudden’s 40-POUND wa MATTRESS, $ é WOVEN WIRE SPRINGS, $1 G AND "Cor Seteteteteteteteoeoeeegedetedetetetetetetntneepoteaate G ie an is GROGAN’S eee Bargain In Hair Switches. In all shades; also large re- ductions in Gray Switches. Hair Dressing, Cutting |‘ and Shampooing in best manner by competent artists at S. Heller’s, 720 7th St. MAMRMOTM GREDIT MOUSE, 819-821-823 7th Street Norihwest, $2.50, Was $5.00. $4.50, Was $6.00. $6.50, Was $10.00. Between H and I stree! 84a IDR RRR (Mourning e y) Hats, 4. Just NING HATS we've $6.50 is the usual for FAM VATTERN HATS at 10 ER CENT OFF usual prices tomor- 4 | row. irs. C. Stiebel, 113 Gst. CPR IE Ue, ann cost of manufacture or importation. V feel it our duty to. recognize the liberality of the shopping public of this city in this way. We start in with a cleansing effect: Se. Turkish Bath Soap . Swansdown °. Steel Curling Irons. Be, Large Size Shell Hair Pins. Fruit of the Loom Bleached Muslin, full yard wide Pelham Bleached Cotton, full yard wide Sea Island Unbleached Mustin. . Heavy Unbleached Muslin Remnants $1 46-inch Fine Satin Berber Figured, in the newest in Velvets. Dress Trimmings. day Bargains in Hangings. gains in Muslin Underwear. Prices throughout the entire house. Pierce's Old Stand. QUIR: First Birthday! Tomorrow will close our first business ‘year among the people of Washington, and to that end we shall celebrate this event by giving special Birthday Mementos. Everything we offer for sale will be nee + e IENTO PRICE, 2C. La Parisienne Soap, per box of three cakes... 5 Buttermilk Soa; TO PRICE, 120, ‘0 PRICE, 744C. ‘TO PRICE, 4C. Caticura Lubin's 4-1 ages Toilet Powder. ‘Tetlow's Swansdow! Y-ounce Violet W: Hunter's Invisible MENTO PRICE, MENTO PRIC Genuine Steel Scissors elveteen Skirt F: I colors, Velvet ockinet Dress Shields, est Stockinet Dress Shields, No 2 Best Stockinet Dress Shields, No. Pure Rubber Shields, No. 2. Pure Rubbe- Shields, No. 3 Pure Rubber Shields, No. 4 100-yard Spool Silk, 1 dozen box Brownie Sticks...... Side Combs, per set. Silver Souvenir Spoons. Hard Enameled Sword Stick Pins Dagger Hair Pins, shell prongs an Silver and Gold Plated Ladies’ Ring Shel! Back Combs, the latest styles TO PRICE, 9C. Leatu r Purses, different si TO PRICE, 5C. ‘ine Leather Purses..... Alligator Rocket Book and Dress Goods and Domestics. ‘0 PRICE, NTO PRICE, 150, combined. .... AY PRICI BIRTHDAY PRICI Bleached Sheeting, best qualit Great Birthday Bargains in Ging- hams, Tickings, Calicoes, &c. 10 Pieces Pure Medicated All-Wool Red Twill Flannel, 10 Pieces xtra Fine White Flannel, 89¢, quali 50 Pieces Extra Heavy Unbleached Canton F) - BIRTHDAY PRICE, 250. BIRTHDAY PRICE, 25 BIRTHDAY PRICE, Snowflake Dress Goods, BIRTHDAY PRICE, 9%) he inch Changeable and Cloth quality. BIRTHDAY PRICE, 1 Quality 38-inch All-Wool Cloth, in fancies and mixtures and all covert suitings. BIRTHDAY PRICE, 290. BIRTHDAY PRICE, jeces 46-In, AN-Wool Fine Serges, in all new si . G5, qual jorings. Birthday Prices in Silks. Birthday Prices Birthday Prices in Laces, Ribbons, -BIRTHDAY PRICE, 69C. $6 Ladies’ Changeable Silk Surab Waists, full back and front, with erushed collar. BIRTHDAY PRICE, §3.08 $8 36-inch Long Cloth Golf Cape, with colored savin and black surah bood.BIRTHDAY PRICE, $5 Birthday Bargains in Blankets. Birth- Birthday Bar- In fact, Birthday We want everybody present at this sale tomorrow, as we have made preparations to supply every one. Instead of receiving presents on a day of this kind we are giving them with the greatest of pleasure. Be With Us. THE FIRE FIGHTERS The Ingenious Devices Which Save Time When Flames Threaten. MAGIC OF A MODERN ENGINE HOUSE a Only a Few Seconds Needed After the Alarm is Sounded. SEAT were ay PROPERTY AND LIFE Ie anne Vth The number of notable conflagrations that have occurred within the past three months has been remarkable and is unprecedented in the history of the local fire department. Property intrinsically worth more than a million of dollars—but to the owners, of priceless value—has gene up in smoke; several large buildings have been ra: with disastrous results; brute animals ha: perished, and, more than all, human life has been sacrificed. The best efforts of the fire fighters have availed only in confining the flames to the buildings in which they were discovered; to save the burning prop- erty itself has been impossible. These de- structive blazes have noticeably agitated the community. No one who has any knowledge of the matter imputes to the fire laddies a want of courage or ability, but the latter acknowledge the necessity for more men and additional equipments in or- der to do battle successfully with the de- vouring flames. It is of vital importance that the depart- ment should be at the scene of fire as soon after Its discovery as possible and before the flames have gained any headway, and American brains and ingenuity have been So successfully employed for the accom- Plishment of this desirable end that, should an alarm of fire be turned In from any point within the city limits, two or more engines would be on the spot, ready for work, with- in five minutes, a remarkable record when it is remembered that horses must be hitch- ed, steam generated and a run of a quarter or half a mile made. How is it done? Time-Saving Facilities. A visit to an engine house is full of in- terest to every observer, and his interest swells to enthusiasm as he sees on every side the appliances which enable the fire- men to respond instantly to an alarm and begin at once their beneficent labors. At- tention is first attracted to the harness suspended from the ceiling and hanging just over where the horses are hitched on each side of the tongue or pole of the engine and hose carriage. This harness is light and simple, yet very strong and sup- plied with every means for immediately fastening it upon the horses. The collar is not put on the animal's neck by a series of tugs and twists, but, hinged at the top, it fastens at the throat with a strong spring catch, just as the bracelets, which were so extensively worn by the ladies a few years ago, were clasped around the wrist. The bridle is always worn, and, except when feeding, the bit is kept constantly in the animal's mouth; the traces are never uphvoked from the whiffletrees,and there are no breechen straps to be fastened; conse- quently, the process of harnessing ts an extremely simpie one. It is only necessary to let the harness fall upon the horses’ backs, snap the collar together, clasp the lines to the bridle and hook the belly strap. Whenever two parts of harness have to be fastened together, the use of the time-delay- ing buckle is carefully avoided, snap hooks and spring clasps being substituted to ef- fect the saving of even a few seconds. The harness is suspended from the ceiling Ly ropes and weights, much the same as win- dows are hung in houses, When the horses are In positon beside the pole it is arranged by a clever device that when the driver on his seat lifts the reins, which lie loosely on the dashboard, the weights are released aud Al peace falls directly on the horses’ cks. The Knowing Horses. In the rear of the apparatus are the Stalls, the front end of which is hung on hinges and fastened to a powerful spring #0 that when the pin in the hasp is re- leased this door is immediately thrown open and the sagacious animal of his own accord runs at once to his place in front of the engine. The striking of the large brass gong, which is a prominent feature in every en- gine house, accomplishes much more than merely calling the men and horses to their stations. The electric current In its cir- cuit to the gong passes through a magnet which is fastened high up on the wall back of the stalls, snd thereby releases a weight to which wires are attached leading to the halter ropes, and to the brass pins, which fasten the stall doors. As soon as this weight drops, the pin is jerked out of the hesp on the door, which is immediately thrown open by the spring before de- scribed; at the same instant, the halter rope ts unclasped and the animal has no difficulty in making his way out of his stall. By Unseen Hands. Then ensues the process of hitching up, after which the men take their positions on the engine and reel. But suppose the four large doors to the house are closed; they must be unlocked and opened. Not, however, by the slow process of unbolt- ing each door and swinging it wide sepa- rately, A more instantaneous method ts adopted, As the driver on his box lets the lvarness fall upon the horses by the simple act of lifting the reins, so also he has at hand easy means for throwing open the heavy entrance doors. Just beside his seat, to the right, depending from the cell- ing, is a rope, one pull of which unbolts the doors and releases the heavy weights hung in the wall, which are attached to them, so that the doors swing apart as if of their own volition. Twenty pounds of steam is kept always in the engine, although the fire in the grate itself is not lighted. The fuel is prepared and !n order ready to light at a moment's notice, and this is done while on the way to the scene of the conflagration, but the water in the boiler is heated from an 1 paratus situated in the cellar by means Of pipes, which project through the floor and fit closely to the fixtures of the engine. These pipes are not screwed or in any way fastened to the engine—if they were they could not be detached without loss of val- uable time—but fit snugly, and when call- ed out in service the engine simply pulls away from them. The Men’s Quarters. The second floor is the home of the men. The front room ts the sleeping apartment, where single iron bedsteads are placed in rows alongside of the side walls, leaving @ wide aisle in the center. Near the front and rear of this room two brass poles . ect from the engine room below and a fons is cut in the floor of sufficient size to allow plenty of room for a man to slide down one of them to the first floor, for if any of the men are in the upper room they cannot spare time to run down by the stairs at the sounding of the alarm, but adopt the seconds-saving method of vertical descent. Ordinarily the opening through the floor around each of the poles is closed by two semi-circular doors bolted to the ceiling ot the apparatus room, but the same device which loosens the halter ropes and pulls the pins out of the hasps of the stall doors also releases the fastenings of these cover- ings and they fall open of their own weight. Many of the engine houses are fitted up with a gymnasium, library and reading rooms, the furnishings of which are presented by appreciative citizens as testimonials of their interest in the welfare of the brave men who are ever ready to face danger and even risk their lives to protect persons and property in peril. The rooms as well as everything else around are models of neatness—good order niust and does prevail in an engine house. There is a place for everything and everyth can always be found in its accustom place. One of the men was asked if it was pos- sible for the company to leave the house in response to an alarm within forty sec- onds of the time it was received. The questioner thught that less than three-quar- ters of a minute was indeed short enough time in which to hitch up four horses and do the many other things necessary before starting for a fire. Imagine his surprise when the flreman answered nonchalantly that fifteen seconds was sufficient time in which to make ready, and that ‘frequently the company had gotten out In twelve sece