Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-11-08 | Page 16 | "Uncle" Reuben Made Happy When Mishap Gives Him Chance

UNCLE REUBEN MADE MAD I HAPPY WUEN MISHAP GIVES CnANCE Veteran Fireman and Pioneer Pio- Pio Pioneer Pioneer Pio Pio- neer Engine Effective When Wh n Motor Fails Uncle I Simpson i nm po ii the time oM oM- st sl man maim on un the Salt Halt Lake Lako Cit City 1 lire fire re department de do perhaps on any nii- lire fire 1 in iii the lie country is as happy this mottling morning as a boy LOr with his first firt pair of long bug trousers His lug old fire en engine ine the tho relic of many a firo and amid which nUIl Uncle 5 le has lias hilll himself cl operated for fully un twenty years irs was put into service again and w lie Ito him himself got ot to run nut In Jim fact lie alone alon can run it i so o that it will a of water uter but but Uncle I n cuben can op op- crato crate it successful successfully Time The lire fire was at tho tIme home borne of M. M T J. 0 Eleventh mth last East ast street As g the thc house is jg located far tar out and amid awa away from all an 1 fire firc plug it was almo almost t destroyed before the tho blaze could be e stopped the alarm came caine in iii one of t time tiie Ie automobiles automobile from i No 1 1 responded to the alarm and amid rut gut stuck in the mud mild before it had reached the scene It was wag then that l Undo was called to the rescue e. He lie proudly mounted the old sent scat of the tho old olt fire firo cn- cn and amid hastened to thi the I Steaming Steam Steam- in lag ing up the apparatus tl and amid amI V pumping pumping wa wa er cr from a j-ie j nearby rby ditch ii h lie soon toon hind had that fire thinking that time tile I Johnstown fo flood had como com J again am in Salt Lake City When th time the rest of the department md hart released itself from the tho mud 11 and arrived at the thc scene Engineer Simpson was vas mopping the from rom his brow browand nail mill looking proudly pro at the sizzling embers He says that the only thing timing lie he r regrets is that the time place waR was so far faraway faraway awa away that he could not get et the there cI in time to save wc it from the extensive vc loss The fire firo was started b by defective e wiring and m gained considerable head- head ivay av before time the members of the household household house house- hold hora were awakened by br the explosion of some mo shotgun sh shells lIs The They hastened to call caB the fire department but hut the tho damage daniago amounts to 1600 of which is lO bv bin e- e