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Show w the bottom, which opens automatical!. The door is about two feets above the ground, which permits- the pupils to alight upon their feet." The test drill method which generally obtains is to have the pupils march out to music, as they do when dismissed at noon and recess. At the signal one pe-pil pe-pil flies to the piano, another opens the doors, while the other pupils form in line. three or four abreast, and at another an-other signal march quietly out. Each line is about Ut feet in advance ad-vance of the one following, which make it possible for a pupil accidentally accident-ally stumbling to arise before being trodden upon. Record Made Today. A record was made today by the Lincoln Lin-coln school, of which Miss Etta Powers is principal, when 600 pupils were marched oat in one minute and a half. Excellent drill work is done in this school. By the test drill system the pupils are accustomed to the drill and hare formed the habit of marching out in an orderly manner. In marching out the rule of the children chil-dren from the upper floors preceding those from lower floors is followed, and the girls precede the boys in line, A more excellent system of guarding children from danger ia case of fire could not be devised, and the efficacy of the system was fully demonstrated at the Waterloo school recently, when the children were gotten out of the building in little more than a minute, and without panic. . CBT CULA NEVTTT.) Bchool children of Bait Lake City are protected from fix and the accompanying accompany-ing panic mora effectively than t&e children chil-dren of other dtlea. A building containing con-taining 600 children can be emptied In on m&rtrU and s half In the most perfect order and wltnoot throwing the children into nervous prostration. The principals and teachers of every school tn the dty are ready at any time to meet such an emergency and the children chil-dren without knowing it are trained to meet It too. Since the lire at the Waterloo school when more than one hundred children marched out of the blazing building unharmed pnblie interest has been aroused ia what measures, if any, have been taken to protect the children from dreadful disaster. Simple Method Adopted. So the teachers and principals have adopted the simplest and moat effective method in the world. Under the name of test drills and emergency drills the pupils are taught to march out of a bunding ia order and without confusion confu-sion at any time a certain signal is sounded upon the gong. These drills occur at any time through the day. The emergency call ia rung sometimes in the middle of the morning or some time in the afternoon and within a few seconds the pupils are marching out. This prepares the pupils pu-pils and the signal does not alarm them. If the school were on fire, they could be marched out without panic, as they were st the Waterloo school and not learn that they were in danger until the danger was over. Equipped With Escapes. Each school in the citv is equipped with fire escapes. The Hamilton, Bryant, Bry-ant, Fremont and Union have spiral escapes, es-capes, the others the regulation iron affairs. The latter, however, do not connect with the next escape below as is so often the case, but from earn floor a separata escape extends to within with-in a few feet of the ground. The spiral escapes mav be entered from each floor of the schoool, and a school containing over 200 pupils may be emptied bv this means in two minutes min-utes and a half. The spiral escapes are not popular with either pupils or teach-ert, teach-ert, who prefer marching the pupils out of the doors by the test drill method. As a Last Beeort. "We would resort to the spiral escapes es-capes only in extremity," said Superintendent" Super-intendent" D. II. Coombs of the Fremont Fre-mont school. "The school can be emptied just as quickly by marching the pupils out and with no panic among the pupils. The girls do not like sliding slid-ing down the spiral and are afraid to enter it. We have tried both ways of getting the children out of the building, build-ing, and it takes exactly the same time two an-1 one-half minutes to empty the school by either way. The pupils prefer to march cut. The Spiral Escape. "The spiral escape is a huge iron tower with a smooth, spiral plane inside, in-side, down which the pupils slide, ma-king ma-king their nit by meaps of a door at |