Show Fire Drill in the Big Printing Shop Shag f u M The word was passed around amo among amateur firefighters of the government government government gov gov- printing office one afternoon recently The fire brigade brigade- Is said to consist of about a dozen laborers Really there was no fire tIro about the big printing office save in tr-e tr e engine room furnaces and under the smelting I pots Some one ope high in authority at the I had read rend a newspaper account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of a disastrous conflagration In hi Inthe hithe I Ithe the west The story of the blaze put UI the notion In his head to resurrect a general order of several years years' standing which provides for a fire tIre drill At intervals It was near to the hour for closing down the works o'clock when the e edict lct went forth that the fire brigade brigade brigade bri bri- bri- bri gade was to assemble quickly and from the new building attack an Imaginary imaginary Im im- conflagration In the old structure structure ture across amoss the alley which separates the new from the old the order from Upon UlOn the receipt of I the front office the tho amateur firemen I got busy without delay There Thero was a dragging forth of hose and other apparatus apparatus ap ape ap- ap for fighting the red demon A tall man who seemed to be in supreme supreme su suo su- su preme command of the firemen ga gave va the orders in cool confident tones Innumerable hose lines were connected connected con con- with fire plugs in tho the new building Nozzles were aimed at the venerable structure across Jackson al ale al- al ley As the streams of water began to play and the spray was rising in clouds like the mist from Niagara Falls FaUs the printers bookbinders woman woman wo- wo wooman man folders and other workers began lo to file out of the buildings There is an order that the exit of ur workmen an n 1 I must be beth th through th-ough ough the the side doors along the alloy al al- loy and G street Consequently as the head of the line of workers reached reach reach- ed the doors on the alley and witnessed witnessed witnessed wit wit- the deluge of water crashing against the walls of the old building an and flying back In foaming masses thoy Ully tried to force way war back baek into into in in- to the he new structure Hundreds of toilers behind not aware of the conditions in front pressed forward forced the front rank out into the alley and into the torrents of flying water The ensued a scene of excitement |