| Show A noi hovel ladder Iad dar A ladder is ia made to be ba walked on ht a human ladder is a novelty and sometimes iome joine times a grand grandia novelty ovelty such a ladder camo came into requisition in new york yoris not very tory long ago but after all though the act was novel the actor was waa but one in the long lino of men and women who in lifes emergencies are always on hand to exhibit that spirit of courageous self forgetfulness which makes the looker on feel that thero there is in Laum something ething grand left in humanity yet yel it waa but the old story of a tenement house bouse on fire and a small email crowd of frightened escaping tenants they came down the fire escapes in desperate haste baste before the firemen arrived upon the scene but between the lost last rung ng oz ol tho the ladder and the ground was a drop of ten feet the light flimsy ladder swayed beneath the weight of the most venture some tenant who stood irresolute frightened to take the big drop and un able to return for above was an ever increasing weight of bum human beings pressing downward it was waa a mo of peril and it threatened to be one bat u catastrophe brit just then tho the janitor stepped forward self possessed and self sel forgetful standing on the stoop he reached up and found that his arms could just grasp the end of the shaky ladder I 1 I 1 climb over me he cried and stood his ground holding on to the flimsy ladder while men women and children scrambled over him to a place of safety by means of that human ladder they all reached the ground youths cc cani |
