The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1912, Page 8

os pay A FIREPROOF BUILDING MAKES Ghief Kenton Says It Is B Catuse It’s Like a Stove With Contents Afire. HEAT IS STORED UP. é an Oven It Cooks the; | ] Life Out of Everything f, Within the Walls, ‘Phe whole town raised tts evebrows | Feeterday when Chief Kenlon anid that B @ fireproof bullding with the contents @bdlaze made a hotter, more deadly fire f than the same blaze would make in a i Ron-Areproof structure. The Chief Seemed to be going axainst a) general! f Gccepted belléfs. And not only that. He | | Made his remarks before the Wagner, } Commission, which 's a body of gen! © tlemen commissioned by the Legislature | } to learn the lessons taught by the woful! ‘Triangle fire and to brush up on expert | fire-fighting, s0 that they may be able i to suggest Jaws that will afford better | Protection to life and property re oMciatly known as the New York Factory investigating Commission, be- ' cause they aim to propose a few laws for the better safeguarding of persons @nd property In factories. Certainly Chief Kenlon would be the Iast one to N ‘Willingly lead them astray o end them Back to Albany misinformed. | They What did he mean? How could a fire- | 8° tinder structure? FIRE CHIEF WHO TELLS WHY A FIREPROOF HOUSE | « Tire Chef JOHN KENLON » frightened now. The fireproof building 14 better than the other because It con- fines the blaze to one floor, The remedy isn't #0 much In the care of exits as in the simple matter of dividing off the jfoor space with fireproof partitions. Fire breaks out in one place. Walk @ few feet and close the door, which leaves the fire in a single segregated oven and Jets it die, or, in any case, allows @ good twenty minutes for escape, It ought to bs done, There ought to be smoke towers or outside fire-escapes bulit, ‘The outside escape I refer to ie @ brick to'vér built a few feet from the structure and having individual balcon- Jes with fireproof doors, A few feet from any floor across a atairway and u are in another fireproof building. “Now, if a bullding that isn't fireproof ick, clickety-click,”” warned the old mald tapper. To find out—ask. Chief Kenlon was in his quarters In| @ngine house No, %, in Great Jones) street. He was sitting tilted back from | E t ! |} proot vutiding be hotter than the wooden t i) “Probably see one,” said the chief on the way down stairs, ‘Then It was skid to the left and straight down Broadway, with the beM standing on {ts head, and |4ow he had broken through. “Relieving the pressure prevents back| Dr, Harngen, who liver nearby raughts,”* 1S SO DEADLY WHEN AFIRE, reached the atreet. FIRE CAPTAIN DRANK Thought It Was Whiskey and ete | You MAY Fire Captain Francis Hf. Malloy of Mngtne Company No, 140, at Prospect and Greenwood avenues in Breoklyn, atratght Hospital he had a swig ong . handy. Gluckma 82 West 25 to the end of the a third brown bottle of the other two, poured himself a stiff Q drink In a It at one gulp. that he had made a mistake. When Guckman noted the bottle from which M the draught he tmmedia ade le a WORLD, 1HUXBDAY, DEUEMBER | ) ) 6, 1922. mixture of magnesia sulpWate and called ‘Later lance came froth Seney Hospl- he explained when he he fire captain, out of danger j but very weak, was taken to the hon- Lovely place up there, all paper.” . pital. He is sald to be Improving to-day. POISON BY MISTAKE. Clerk Quickly Came to His Rescue. TRY. POSLAM BEFORE BUYING before you buy" is a safeguard Nothing inferior can to buy Poslam—the without first prov- ing its a curative properties by use of the sample sent free to anyone any- where by the Emergency Laboratories, New York. of persons have tried these That they have found lhown by its slowly returning from am dive at 1 oM 4 ed samp i ' conta | Poslam meritorious is Tone hehe ca present sales——-greater than those of any ‘remedy for the skin. Ecsema, acne, pimples, etc., should not be endured while by Posl .AM SO: the clerk said and k, Malloy stepped and pleked up a ing by the alde “~ the skin secure Tt infectior jsease, improves its color and texture, soothes tender skin, makes complexions clear, bands The best shampoo for dandruft. lakey glass and swallowed Instantly he screamed fe contents of | soft. t ny hi Ke All druggists sell Poslam (price, 50 if . man 6 cents) and Poslam Soap (price, #3 cents), Franklin Simon & Co. Fifth Avenue Will Close Out Friday 96 Women’s Dressy Gowns For Afternoon or Evening Wear Decollete, high or Dutch neck models of charmeuse silk, crepe meteor or beaded chiffon over silk, 35.00 B. Altman & Co: Boys’ & Youths’ Suits & Overcoats (Sizes incomplete) will be offered to-morrow (Friday) and Saturday AT APPRECIABLE REDUCTIONS - IN PRICES Juvenile Wool-lined Overcoats of Chinchilla and heavy tweeds, in blue, brown and gray, spectal value . . . . + at $6.00 High-grade Overcoats at correspondingly low prices. Boys’ Norfolk Suits, / with extra pair of knickerbockers: of durable cheviots and tweeds, suitable for school wear, sizes 7 to 18 . . at $6.75 and in smart models made of finer grade materials - © » o at $8.28 Boys’ Overcoats, sizes 8 to 18, of gray and brown cheviots, wool lined, with convertible collars . . . . . + at $8.50 Belted Storm Overcoats of imported English vicuna, convertible collars, at $18.50 & 20.00 . Former prices $25.00 te 30.00 Youths’ Suits, comptising the entire assort- Stern” Brothers are showing an unusually large and choice collection of Art Novelty, Furniture Very Appropriate for Holiday Giits including Secretaries, Desks, Book Cases, Library and Parlor Tables, Magazine Stands, Tea Wagons, Muffin Stands, Consoles, Sewing, Tea, Folding, Curio, Telephone, Writing, Drop | eaf, Gate Leg and Nest Tables, Trays, Book Blocks Curates, Humidors. Cellarettes, Waste Baskets, Plant and Fein Pedestals, Gongs, Bridge Whistand Poker Sets, Taboureis, Cane Racks, Gold Mirrors, Music Cs {Benches, Hall Clocks with Imported Movements, issuing Chimes on Tubular Bells or Gongs. Leather Chairs in Morocco and Spanish Finish, also Odd Chairs and Rockers in fine fabrics cr upholstered to meet individual requirements, nds, Stools, For To-morrow, Special Values in Oval Mahogany Tables, $7.75 Mahogany Sewing Tables, Wee ave Tc 10.75 Value $10.50, at Value $15.50, at Gate Leg Tea Tables, Solid Nehogany, Value $22.50, at 1 4.50 Nest of Four Tables, Solid Mahogany, Value $22.50, at 15.75 Martha Washington Sewing Tables, Solid Mahogany with inlaid lines, Value $25.00, at 16.50 Mahogany Tea Tables, witheusy tray, Value $27.00, at 18.00 Morocco Arm Chairs, Value $57.50, at 39.50 Morocco Wing Arm Chairs, Value $80.00, at 55.00 Stern. Brothers To-morrow, Friday, an Exceptional Offering of discontinued patterns in Brass Bedsteads fis desk, which you will see at once was |Tound the corner of Franklin on two Well situated, being very near the nice Whet* and skidding at that, and into Found hole in the floor with the shiny | ‘ht third ear, and into Laight street, Brass pole running through, and nearer @"4:t with @ couple of bounds over two sti to the nervous little tapper that | line of hose. fairly sputters an alarm in fidgety prim.| Smoke was pouring from the three Ness, like some excited old lady tell: ne | are Boers ef the P @ policeman how it happened. rovlnd Kenlon can be very laconical. appeared » reappearin: |B THE CHIEF TELLS ABOUT IT | through the smoke pouring from Heretofore $49.50 to $69.50 ment, have been reduced to $9.00, $10.00, $14.00 & $16.50 Former prices $12.75 to 25.00 in very desirable styles, lacquer guaranteed for five years, at $21.50, 26.50, 28.50 to 65.00 Formerly from $27.50 to 85.00 ; Also Two Very Attractive Styles, bright or satin finish, 87 Women’s Tailored Suits Dressy tailored model made of imported fabrics trom our custom order department, in navy blue, black, brown or taupe aera English serge, velour de laine or ratine cloth, Boys’ Hats and Caps at greatly reduced prices. ‘With two inch continuous and | 4 stow can tener nthe Nate 22.50 ' ' six three-quarter inch fiers? Former Price $22.50, at $s 1 8.00 * ing?" was the question, Colonial style, with two inch straight srpriber easlanacon, vigesed’ Heretofore $39.50 Sad coven coc ech fers, "Former Pace 427,50, « 19.50 “He swang around and, mad. |’vo piles of books on the desk, “Now, it's very simple, Stern Brothers’ Special Mattresses - B. Altman & On. sald he, . Cem, 188, ery tm Pare White Felt, Roll Edge, Value $13.50, at $11.78 | ere i ng mane Franklin Simon & Co. gpechlNe Bick Mik, atc, 19078 Upholstered Springs Sashes and wire woven glass windows Will Close Out Friday tashes And wire woven giana wintows shipment of ENGLISH CLOAKINGS Rabbet Edge, Value $12.73, at 9.78 Teke the contents of a wi Colonial. “ 16.50, « 14.50 embodying the most fashionable weaves and Imperial, “24.75, “ 19.50 stops 60 Misses’ Silk Lined Coats color effects; also silk seal, mole, beaver and Woven Wire Springs sroaly nevieaet cor |f SKIN troubles || vst sete" salen, detec vee teeecet. | corded silk velour for sults or coats. Roll Edge, Value $5.25, at 4.50 | BB oven—it cooks. All life brown, gray or velvet collar, dorset, belted beck, ‘silk lined, interlined. be destroyed because the : ; F you have to 20 years, ‘worm, orother itching, Lene Chinchilla, cheviot and plaid-back cloakings Se, teken out of the ar by combustion ing, wighly skin or ‘scalp 15.00 acs telnet la the lac stock at Also To-morrow, a Special Sale of z n'a hent of 190" tegrece if £84 Realnol Boap, and ove how Heretofore $29.60 attractive prices. Blankets and Comfortables PFebrendelt, under which the human ing stope and Dedy becomes dust. ‘The windows wiil trouble disappears, even in At Greatly Reduced Prices White Wool Biankets, t open the windows?” “The fire will spread more rapidly, Aw 92 Misses’ Tailored Suits BLACK AND COLORED DRESS GOODS as oes out there w « Single Si; Pair $2.75, 4.00 ial of cleat ta the oor, making te Driiay REMEn SeeGLen ac lnee are Glniaj aaa el Guinnid in®dress and skirt lengths, panty «3.50, 5:25 vol toy Wesel: same as opening wool galtingn, ia navy, black, taupe, brown or novelty fabrics; Extra Large Size, ‘ Pe. | 4.50, 6.95 ve coat lined, interlined, latest model skirts. being off in the regular depart- ra ge . fT [8 NOTHING TO BE SCARED 1.0.2 youre Sr Per id Colored Blankets (Double Size), sacra, sass 18.50 ment at the following remarkably low prices: Techart dalhave, a doesent, Each 2.48 : id effects, in pink, bl of tan, Pair 4.50 Heretofore $29.50 to $39.50 Skirt Lengths . $2.50, 3.50 to 6.00 de, eae eae Dress Lengths . 4.25, 5.00 to 15.00 Figured Sitkoline, in floral designs, at 1.88 nestled FRc FIFTH A VE., 37th and 38th Sts. L Printed Silk Mull with plain aged a gol | s Wa Ce : Figured Japanese Silk with pi ers and wool filling, 6 + ; Trade Mark Half a Century THE WOMEN’S UNDERWEAR DEPARTMENT ; . e q is showing a comprehensive assortment of And an Offering of Fine Muslin a Gift Handkerchiefs ' Lord & 7 ay lor WOMEN’S AMERICAN UNDERWEAR | Sheets, Pillow & Bolster Cases qi At The Linen Store Founded 1826 at the following attractive prices, Sheets Single Size Three-quarter , Douiie Site. We urge our patrons to do their Christmas shopping at Hemmed, 48c, 65c 57c, 80c 68c, 8S¢ } 1 the earliest possible date, IN THE REGULAR STOCK: H f i, 55c, 68¢ 78c, 96c 90c, 1.05 You could easily buy yout whole list of Christ- are offering ra (ies Mae ale cance \ f mas presents at our andkerchief counter. £ iilow Cases 21 by 36in. y y 2 ‘ ) Everybody uses Handkerchiefs and they are Men AY English Made Boots Nightrobes of outing aay og conteeig Hemmed We 6c 176 196 y always an acceptable gift. at andnainsook - - - , Hemstitched, 18 20 22 23 For Father—plain hemstitched Handkerchief. edi \ weight, Pa evire a ad Saran) chi Sores i $ 8 $ 8 $6 8 Chemises . ’ + at 65c, 75c, 95c. to 1.75 Bolster Cases 21 by54in. 21by63 21by72 22%by76 = hand-embroidered, 25¢ to $6,00 each, 4- 5» 5° 5» ° 5 —_ SO S - For Mother—Handkerchiefs from Ireland, Switzerland Combination Garments: Dressing Jackets of Hemmed, 28c eg ae 5 i Madeira and France,,Lace trimmed or embroidered, at Values 6.00 to $10.00 at . . $1.50 to 3.00 outing flannel Hemstitched, 35 ‘ a, dainty Plandkerchiefs in all sizes and | 1 Ah “cs Cc; d' ”? Drawers 1.25 eee acned <a on West 234 and 22d Streets ¥ styles of decorations, in a Variety such as can be secured e ordwainer 55c, 75c, 85c. to 1.25) Dressing lacke o} a f ; nowhere else in the world. Prices range 25¢ to $100 each, A Waterproof Boot without extra weight, Corset Covers eiderdown Hf For Brother—initial or plain hemstitched Handkerchiefs in Black Vici Kid, French Calf and Tan at . 68c, 95c & $1.25iat . . $1.90 to 2.90 ‘ Bese with, colored borders to matcli his suit, 25¢, 50¢, Cresco Calf 3 8 AB ye Sets of Two and Three Pieces All Christmas Handkerchiefs are packed in gift boxes, alue $8. i & che Bue Snnine: sel hice “arp ne 9595 5 i : : a ga, Dae 2 Simplify Home-seeking by saving i James McCutcheon & Co. Broadway & 20th St.; 5th Ave.; 19th St. Pajamas . + + $2.00, 2.25, 3, time, temper and tramping » Sth Ave. & 34th St., waldRiifons ; poocd ; % SS SS aaa aa a in | Aveunt, 34y web Ath Mtreete, Fem Yord.) _