Logan Republican | 1907-08-10 | Page 2 | New Fire Escape

New Fire Escape. A Swiss engineer announces a new fire escape. It constats of a series of folding iron ladders, contained In frames, attached to the window cases, each reaching to tho window below. By merely turning n Binall winch on any floor all theso frames aro puBhcd outwarJ from the building, the ladders lad-ders extmided and Bccurely connected connect-ed with each other, thus forming n continuous communication from tho top floor "to tho ground. Tho manipulation manipu-lation Is slmplo nnd takes less than a minute. When not In uso tho cscapo Is barely visible, and does not disfigure dis-figure the facade of the building In the manner that the ordinary outsldo Iron stulrcnso doc3. A public test of the now escapo has proved successful, nnd the Vlennn llro brigade representatives represent-atives havo expressed their approval of It.