The evening world. Newspaper, September 30, 1920, Page 21

MBER Want to Be.a. Fireman? - 80-Day Tryout Required; ‘ Full of Dizzy Thrills |"EASY IF YOU DON’T GET KILLED"’ ome of, the Stunts Chief LarkiA Puts Rookies Through to Bréak Them In—and Seasoned Officers and Men to Keep Them Fit. Story and Pictures by Will B. Johnstone. ‘Coprright. 1020, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The Now Tork Bvening World.) takes an ambitious young man to risk his neck a dozen times a day in enler to Sete job. Believe it or not that's what a prospective member ot Me New York Fire Department mast do for thirty days before he is fnadly socepted. ‘ You New THURSDAY, SEPTE ‘will get @ good idea of his bod if you drop in at the training school cuir Tomas LARKIN, HEAD OF TRAINING scuooy, LENGTH OF RVING A on HOSE YO The @ Y J ouncenous SCALING STUNTS ARE Bone oUEg. Lise WET Here the apprentices attached to city fire departments receive thelr preliminary instruction in @re-fight- RUNNING UP ing required before they become full- 6 FLGNTS fledged members, and here, once a OF Rote oe month, officers and men of regular companies must go through twenty evolutions under the experienced eyos ot Chief Thomas Laridn, who times them with a stop watch, testing their .officioney to seo whether they are Pea igs Penn , qualified to stay in the department. — gow he climbs inside. “Even Chief Larkin is principal of the stands on the sill, He wears a heavy school and the open air class room is Canvas belt, carrying a large steel Aajly flooded with water and perspir- BOK. The inan inside holdg him by ation, mostly perspiration. | DiMouit and thrilling lessons are taught on tho #14 of @ dummy build- ing, wix stories high and three win- dows wide. A huge Mfe-net is stretched at the bottom of the build- ing to catch pupils who fall down in thelr work > “Standing on men to a ladder—and climb to the the win- n” man this hook. ‘The man on the sill stoops and grips the ladder, turna tho hook out and lifts it hand over band until he cgn hook it Into the next window man on alll, while “odd” } der, They alternate on up to the window. “It's easy,” said, Rooet John Mullin, “it you don’t get killed.”* Mullen was in the navy, and oven his toughened hands were raw from sills and straddling 83 the work. silly are the hardest stunts,” sald “Robert Haflanan, alno ex-gob, sald: Chief Larkin as ho lined up the after- «the wnyy Ww soo alonaeiae of noon class of thirty rookies, “I'll show you,” he wenton. “Attention! Right drew! Count off,” he commanded. ‘Then odd and even numbers were or- dered to take scaling laddere—two Here Are Some Very Interesting ‘Early Pictures of Stage Notables PICTURE NO. 2. this, but her and you get it.’ “straddling sills” consists of grip ping the window ledge with legs—one one inade—and awinging the ladder up unassisted, you get good dough, “This geta you MLE EVENING WORLD has seoured over thirty portraits of ae- twesses and actors taken before they had attained prominence on the stage or screen. Some are kiddie pictures, See how y you cam pick out, Address your lists to Editor, Magazine Page, World. Oneo a week the correct identifications will be pub- WHAT'S ALLTHIS FUSS ABOUT ? YOu CAN GET A BIGGER ON ee THE SENTIMENT ATTACHED 1 IT THISONE HAS aR NCS WILL VER HAVE in the hip# sald rookie Henry Schiat- ter, an ex-army man. “The pendulum is éxetting," added Adolph Lahruth (called “Babe Ruth’ “You start from a lower window wi two sealing ladders, climb up one and pendyjum until you can hook your secon swing over on it and hang onto both ladders, unhook your first ladder and then pendulum again until you swing over and hook the next window you go all ¢ r the bullding th we All but two of the rookies service men, and they are ap thelr courage and skill to the of life with the same seal a applied it in taking life before. ard Moeller and Richard P. are ex-navy rookies, while Farrell Anthony Monahan, James Dunleary and Dennis Sprinkle tt with tron-rust to prove it’s been ironed. Breon were in the army. . oral in the 77th Di- rescue the Lost allon in the Argonne Forest. He was with Acting Major Eddie Gran former Gidnt third baseman, who w killed during the rescue, “Dhis fi man work makes me think of the Ar- mne Forest a lot,” laughed Breen as he explaine y they are taught to Jump into } nets, The rookles ajso have to learn to slide dc os suspended from the r 5 is tloklish work and ns up your hands unless you ‘Take two turna of grip thy w the kook with the right ntrolled by the right hand, which acts ag a break. Chief Larkin, thirty-two years in the Fire Depart ment, twelve years as head of the school, described his work during the recess, > become & fiteman in New York t be twenty-one to 1 ty atart with, hye three — month probation, During this appren untth they have had thirty days’ training, I have classes from 9 to 12 in the morning and 1 to 4, afternoon, Capt. John J. Conroy, Licut, Brookly r monthly jo the rookies were a ator gets a free bath along with tbrilly. All the equipment exercises, clocked the ef Larkin, including “three upling, paradox pipe 0, Bes y day % rhood, but mot by . for the ladies R BE THE SANE TO NE IT'STHE ONLY PRESENT YOU EVER GAVE ME SINCE WE WERE MARRIED Ff DN Mw) YOUR LAUNDRY ladder into the next window, Gone Is the Old Oaken Washtub! They Use a Threshing Machine ygu should be thankful they don't ~ on Shirts, a Coffee Grinder on Underwear and an Emery Wheel on Collars. By Neal R. O'Hara, t, 1920, by the Press Publisht goods left over thirty days. slause. at all. The best shops fade a shi prove it’s been mangled. And sine the tip, they now lose your laundry Patronizing a laundry 1s an elimination contest, to the mangle works and they send it back. And 60 on, gketa it when there’s nothing left of it wins, can’t lose. The laundry massage 4 0 delicate you can Indies, Every time you open your weekly wash you wonder what's become of the old-fashioned hired girl that used to attend to the housecleaning, cook the meals, do all the laundry and get Thursday night off to go to ti prayer meeting, Them was the happy days, when they didn't at- tach the broom to @ socket In the wall, And then'’s when they got housemaid's knee from washing the floor, not from daneing the shim- busy under Chief Larkin's agsigtants, bm, Peterson and “Marty, the Gpeed Oh, gone are the days of-the old x 8M ," Ia order that New York may oaken wadhtub! Your safest olty in the world when to Gres, ’ HE old-fashioned laundry used to claim it wasn't responsible for Now they’ve eliminated the thirty-day The laundry to-day is not responsible for any goods left rt to prove it’s been washed. They Phey tear it up to ¢ the parcel-post people slipped ‘em to prove It was delivered. You agnd your linen The side that If they're not transparent wi ‘ship they come to me 4 60 you gan surely look through ‘em when they come back. linen is like old deserves to be decorated—and Ia! It's decorated with @ couple of rib- bons made out of its fancy bosom, ‘There is no use kicking because they put pins in the tall of your shirt. put tagks in your B, V. 5 There is bnly one thing you can my for the linen vandals, They put starch in the price Ist to make it stiff. But they should toss more starch and less pins into the shirts they send back to the downtrodden cotillon leaders, It is different with the Chinese laundries—everything there is done by band, Even the laundry checks are hand-painted, The only trouble with the China- man's system is that he doesn't ool- lect or deliver, You bring your own and you take back somebody else's, The reason the guy in the collar ads, always emilos is that his collar has hever been sent to the laundry. But the rest of us folks have @ ter- rible time” A dame sends a waist to the Jaundry and what she gets back i a waste. When the dyes in your ehirt are supposed to be fast, the laundry proves that it means they run fast. Shredded underwear, sprinkled with broken buttons and permanent bluing, le a swell dish for a guy when he comes from his bath, ‘These times when IMnen comes back from the lM dry after five or six days it's as white as snow after five or six days, You guessed it, neighbor, right off fhesroe the spool. Tho laundries have a se- laundry now, They use a threshing °Tet process to perform their mira- machine on shirts, a coffee grinder Ces: There has to be a partiosler on underwear and an emary wheel ™&rk for overy bunch of linen that's on the collars, No human hand ®¢nt to the wash works, You are touches the Hnen from the time it ‘® mark! leaves your home till it's brought back and thrown in the agh can. It may be walked on and trampled tn the delicate process of cleaning, but remember It's human feet, not handa, that perform that trick, You send a lavender shirt to the laundry and it comes back looking lace, ing Co, (The New York Byentug World), ‘That means the laundry 8 espectally good on delicate fabrica through ‘em. The fabries, not the n you send 'em, the laundry fixes — Memasy Raves Sold ¥ Science A French fmventor'a detachable starter for airplane motors that can A shirt that £008 to gperated by ond uses the power of washed by machinery ip the modern) through the Battle of Mavglowork liquetied cambonic acid to drive a —————S Here Are Some Fall: Styles For Chilly Days Over Suit. Isa Knitted Cape in Orange and White. See eee Le ee i re re eee Smart Sport Suit of Snug Fitted Vest and Scarf Fringed With Color to Match. aK ereros ~ Owssarezeane piston which pulla a cable wound plate at tho end of the around @ drum on the propeller bub. wiitle all sound convey onto another baye One ni Shonogregh has a sound ventors claiming chines a the ‘of & gonoave 4 n \ t