Show A NO NOI NO EL vEL FIRE ESCAPE I Should Jorgen an Omaha letter carrier not save the lives of a good many people In the future futura it will willbe be no fault of or his He Ho has patented a fire escape that promises to minimize to a marked degree the risk that one takes in occupying a room in a a. hotel or office building that has no o exit ece except t. t to Jump in case the passage below is ob obstrUcted obstructed obstructed ob- ob with flames V His device i is a simple thing yet appears appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears to be effectual It consists of a shaped box-shaped affair that contains steel tapes which have hooks fastened to the upper ends so that they can be attached to the window sill or anything In a room Below th the box containing the st steel el tapes are tw two o handles which a person person person per per- son grasps arid and still further below is a aleather aleather aleather leather belt bell that passes around underneath underneath underneath under under- neath the individual and In which he lie can sit By pressing the handles the I speed of the machine can be governed or oj- can be entirely stopped V As the machine descends the steel tapes unwind from the box until the ground Is reached when they wind up again by the assistance of ot two springs carried In the coil coll box The total weight of ot the escape will not be over over six pounds and the Inventor expects t to have them made much lighter |