|
| Twenty-five thousand people jammed |
|Broadway between Bleecker and Bond |
|streets yesterday noon and had the |
|excitement of watching 250 girls escape |
|from a twelve-story loft building which |
|was afire.--_New York Sun._ |

=7. Miscellaneous.=--There is an infinite number of things that may
happen at a fire and overshadow the mere fire interest. These are the
things that make one fire different from another, and whenever they are
of sufficient importance they become the feature to be played up in the
first line of the introduction. It would be impossible to enumerate all
the unexpected things that might happen during a fire. It is this
element of unexpected possibilities that makes the reporting of fires
interesting, and an alert reporter is ever on the lookout for a new and
unusual development in the fire to be used as the feature of his story.
Here are the leads of a few fire stories clipped from the daily
newspapers:

| With her home on fire and the smoke |
|swirling around her head, Mrs. B. B. |
|Blank, a well-known leader of the |
|social set of Roland Park, bravely |
|stood by her telephone and called upon |
|the Roland Park Fire Company for aid |
|shortly after 8 o'clock this |
|morning.--_Baltimore Star._ |
| |
| Four charming young women attired in |
|masculine apparel were the unexpected |
|and embarrassed hosts of four companies |
|of fire department "laddies" last night, |
|when fire broke out, etc.--_Milwaukee |
|Free Press._ |
| |
| For the first time since its |
|installation the high-pressure water |
|power system was relied upon solely last |
|night to fight a Broadway fire, and |
|Chief Croker said that he was well |
|satisfied with its work. The fire began |
|on the third floor of the six-story, |
|etc.--_New York Times._