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Show IS NOT A FIRE TRAP Local Opera House has Protection At Present and Will Have More, Public comment in legaid to the possibility of an unfoitunate calamity at the local opera house has led Mi. Geoige Thatcher, one or the lessees, to show a leprescntatheof Tin: llicrun-Mt'AX llicrun-Mt'AX through the building and explain ex-plain thcvaiious methods of piotec-lion piotec-lion that aie in use thcie at the piesent time That Inspection leads us to Lelleve that the people need not feelgieatl) lonceined foi theli safet) In case of lhe. Mr. Thalchei lolled down tlie gieat diop cm tain and explained that when It was bought It was guaiauteed to be lirc-pioof, and when tested had held good. He cut a piece fiom the cui-taln'sedge, cui-taln'sedge, wheic use had laigel) de-stio)ed de-stio)ed tlie tiie-ptoof coating, touched matches to It, et at this time, and undei such conditions, It failed to ignite ig-nite In case of Hie on the stage this cuitaln would undoubted!) effectual!) cut oil the spiead to the audltoiiinn for a consideiablc lime. On the stage aie also iwoconneclions with the clt) watei s)stem and suill-clent suill-clent two-Inch hose attached to leach an) p.ut ot the opeia house piopei. Tills hose is Tlcvei detached and tlie app.uatus is tested occasionally to see thatltlsin good woiklngoidei. With the curtain used at piesent and tills s)stemot walci piotect Ion, it seems that any Hie oiiginatlng on the stage I could be conlined tlieieand put out w ltlioiitagieatde.il of difficult). Mi. Thatcliei stated that one ot the employes em-ployes has instiuctlons to look aftei this app.iiattis in case of eineigenc), and tliat himself and biothei, H. (!., jhave in woiking oidei a plan that placcsccitaln men at ceitain positions .should oic.islou aiise. I The opeia house has thiee exits, -one out the liont to Main slieet. and two down the back wa.v to the alle) on Hie south side. All the doois have alw.ivs been unlocked with lhe exception excep-tion ot a time or two tills season w hen the Janltoi was changed. The exit I opening fiom tlio west side of the main I atiditoiiuni is a wide one, but novel used b) patious. In case of the, howevei, how-evei, this would piore of gieat value. The gallei) Is the on I) pait of tlie building that ollcisan) set lous possibility possi-bility or d.ingei. Incase or a panic, when people liecome wild and do those things tli.it seem so lidlciilous when once the senses aie icgaiucd, tlieic might tie a disposition to ciowd to such an extent that the two naiiow openings would piove inadequate. Howevei, the balcony Is veiy low, and it would not bedilllcult 01 dangerous danger-ous to (hop fiom Hie balcony lulling to tlie Ihstllooi. Tills otcouise would bcwholl) unnecessaiy except in case wheie tlie audience became uncoil-Unliable. uncoil-Unliable. I ii addition to the piolecllonalicadv at hand, ariangcmciits aie now being pel reeled looking roiw.ud to the placing plac-ing of anothei outlet to tlie building, eltliei on the south oi west. The lessees les-sees Intend to oflei evei) icason.ible seem Ity to t licit patious. and )cl al this time feel sanguine that a Hie hi tlie house need not icsult dlsastioiisl). |