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Updated: May 2, 2025
"For a week, anyhow," she returned; "perhaps two weeks: If the papers can't use me, I'll try for some other work." "Know anybody here?" "I know Colonel Hathaway, but I'm not on good terms with his granddaughter, Mary Louise. We had a fight over the war. Give me a quiet room, not too high up. This place looks like a fire-trap."
It is unlathed and unplastered, a veritable fire-trap, within four blocks of the County Court House. It could never have passed inspection had it been erected for decent purposes. When the photograph was taken the building was not completed. A row of shops has been added at the left, over which is a large Chinese theatre.
There were no human lives lost; nor any dwellings other than the hotel for there was a clear space around that fire-trap and there had been no wind but it was a valid baptism of fire. It resulted in the organization of a Volunteer Fire Brigade, and it also resulted in Hartigan's determination to erect a stable of his own, where he could have his horse under his eye, day and night.
We know what these things are to-day: the iron teeth are our necessities, the thumbscrews the high-powered and swift machinery close to which we must work, and the rack is here in the fire-trap structures that will destroy us the minute they catch on fire. "This is not the first time girls have been burned alive in this city. Every week I learn of the untimely death of one of my sister workers.
"This was done when I was away on my last long patrol," reflected Wayland. The slash of brushwood and wasted tops lay higher than his horse's head. "A fine fire-trap for the fall drought," thought Wayland angrily. "One spark in that tinder pile in a high wind; and there would be no forests left on Holy Cross."
When the town has about five thousand inhabitants and these fire-trap buildings are close enough to burn one another, a fire breaks out and sweeps the whole thing away, destroying human lives, valuable stock, and priceless records; after which begins the epoch of brick buildings and fire prevention.
They sell the property to a saloonkeeper, or turn it into a moving-picture house and burn people to death in the rotten old fire-trap.
I will leave your fire-trap at once and cast anchor at the 'Next Best." The proprietor argued that his competitor was welcome to such pickings, so he made no comment on the debate. The "Next Best" was "full up," as it always is, so they carried the living corpse out on a stretcher, and hubby went batching with his burden in a three-roomed house on Bancroft Street.
Radisson flung his snow-shoes and clothing as far as he could, and broke from the fire-trap. Half-dressed and lame, shuddering with cold and hunger, he felt through the dark over the snow for his clothing. A far cry rang through the forest like the bay of the wolf pack. Radisson kept solitary watch till morning, when he found that the cry came from Indians sent out to find him by Groseillers.
Paul remembered that a family, in which were quite a number of children, had lately come to town, and taken the big ramshackle building. The thought gave him a thrill, and inwardly he found himself hoping that none of them might be caught in that fire-trap.
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