How Men Act at Fires.
Among the funny incidents of the fire in the Agency Building, Buffalo, N. Y., was one in which a tenant occupying an office on the third story rushed up through the smoke to his room after his assistants had put everything into the safe. Seeing that this receptacle was locked he ordered it opened, and swearing vehemently all the while at the indifference of his help, who made a useless attempt to explain, he ran wildly about, gathered up a couple of old newspapers, chucked them into the safe, locked it again, and then climbed out by way of the fire escape. When the excitement was over, and the safe was unlocked the papers were found to be a week old, and had been used to bring up laundry work in. Another man threw a waste-paper basket full of bonds and mortgages from the window, and spent the next hour gathering up his valuables from the surrounding neighbothood.
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