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Show FIRE ALARM AND GIELS RUSH TO STREET That there is 6cant danger of any Iralatnltv snrh n haf of uaaUnlo u . r. the Blnghamton overall factory, oc f urring In Ogden s overall factory, was demonstrated this afternoon when the 250 employes In the John Scowcroft & Sons establishment. Including 130 girls, left their work and were in "ho street within one and one-half min utes after the fire alarm bell had ben rung A3 one fire drill had been held this morning, the employes were unprepared un-prepared for a second during the same day Nevertheless, the entire three floors of the building were va cated in record breaking time The oerall factory of the establishment establish-ment is located on the third floor and 150 employes, mostly girls, work thero at the machines The exits consist of two stairways protected at each floor by fire doors, and two large electric i freight elevators. i Before the bell was sounded, a representative rep-resentative of The Standard was In-vlted In-vlted to time the drill with a watch. The bell had no sooner sounded tho alarm, than the machines Btopped Both elevators immediately went to the top floor and were filled with glrlo ; while those who could not find space j In the elevator, walked down the ; stairs When the ground floor was reached, half or the employes left by the front door and the other by thy rear to the street. The employes of the other floors reached the street before be-fore the overall machine operators had landed on the lower floor When all had left the building, the watch showed that but one and one-half min utcs had been required to empty thJ iaie uuuning The building is equipped with fire alarm bella on each floor. An alarpi can be sent from any floor and the bells ring throughout tho building Each of the men employed has r po sltlon to take by a fire extinguisher, but the girls leave the building at once By a system of signals, the men can be called to any part of the I building in case the blaze Is located in one spot. Besides the system of alarms, the regular drills twice each week, the danger of a calamity is still further reduced by the slow-burning construction of th building oo I |