Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-09-01 | Page 10 | Fire Escapes for Horses

FIRE ESCAPES FORJHORSES A large packing concern in California Cali-fornia has installed an automatic horse stable, which allows the horses to escape at any time of the day or night if there is danger of fire. The device Is operated In much the same I manner as an automatic sprinkler. I When the temperature in the sta- 1 oles rises to a certain point a weight 1 Is released, which falls on a lever, that I in turn releases all the doors sim- J ultaneously. At the same Instant cer- B tain noises are made mechanically K which frighten the horses from their M places. w The releasing lever is occasionally B operated by hand to give the horses a fire drill-. Each horse soon learns B to trot from its stall when the door B opens and the alarm sounds. B New York, Sept. 1. The number B of new cases of Infantile paralysis B reported for the 2-1 hours ending at 10 a. m. today showed another in- H crease 68 against 60 yesterday but V officials of the health department re- W tain their feeling of certainty that the epidemic is on the wane. The It number of deaths today was 1G com- (1 pared with 21 reported yesterday. IT'. oo S.