新奥尔良部的“烟雾徒”肖
E. J.Shaw队长的转移到12号发动机公司，在沙滩市场，新奥尔良朱莉娅街的发动机公司，在他的职业生涯中恢复了许多事件的记忆。For 16 years he had been in the Thalia street company, and during that period he earned for himself a reputation that easily placed him at the top of the city’s firefighting force, and he was looked up to on all sides as one who would give the best service to the Dryades street business men and, besides, wauld be in easy reach for the large fires common to that district. During the whole of his connection with the department his sole idea has been to be known as a fireman and nothing else. As the best all-around fireman in the department he stands acknowledged by all, and as he has sustained the most injuries of any man in the service, some i lea may be gained of his intrepidity and fearlessness. Two instances of each quality may be quoted: Some years ago at a large hardware fire on Dryades street, the report gained currency that there was a number of demijohns of gasoline in the path of the flames, and if they were once reached by the flames there would be trouble and a-plenty of it, at that. Shaw heard what was wanted, and was the first man to volunteer. He crawled in on his hands and knees and made four trips, until every bit of the gasoline was removed. His hands and face were blistered, and the only comment of the “Smoke Eater” was, “Well, chief, I got the durn stuff.” When Driver I.eveque was pinned in a third-story attic, and all escape cut off and death seemed imminent, Captain Shaw scaled a steep slate roof and swung himself down into a window until Leveque’s rescue was effected. At all of the large fires in the business district whenever the cry goes out that a man is hurt or burned, the usual comment is, “I bet you Shaw is hurt.” The man is a perfect wizard when it comes to twisting and out of tight places, and it is said that he can stand more smoke and flame than any youngster in the business. On the ladders he is as agile as a monkey. He is always at the pipe, and only gets excited when ne cannot be the first to enter the burning structure.
