巴黎博览会。
“John Thomas，”古雅的记者形象的，因此，在巴黎博览会上提出一些火灾逃生：
“博览会上的许多新发明。好奇，但没有用。例如：消防逃脱;已经看过一些铲球和齿轮，足以升起一艘小船。水手可能会在半小时内调整到燃烧房子的第七个故事;只有，房子必须燃烧缓慢。再次：意大利部门的专利梯;在纽约前一段时间，类似于破产和杀死三名消防员的人的模式。N.-B.-过去似乎经常杀死。几个月前，查找与阿斯图岛第四篇窗户滑下的相同模式。 Inventor wished then to bring his apparatus into notice. Did it. Fell and killed himself. Advertised his fire-escape all over United States in four hours. By telegraph. N. B. (to other inventors)—Go thou and do likewise.
“专利机器应始终在将要使用的地面上生长。更好的发明房屋不会比梯子燃烧，以便离开它们并在燃烧时打破脖子。P. S.为什么先构建八层的火种陷阱，然后花这么多时间来发明陷阱以便之后离开它们？更安全的是一个印度人在威武里。印度的威武从未摔倒并粉碎他。没有锅炉楼梯吹他。没有火花开销烤他。文明已经寻求许多发明。“梨对我来说有些人杀死了他们治愈的那么多。
“见过大消防员的游行。Sixtyseven公司。游行。全部在星期天。平均，十五个人到一家公司。三个百合者，有时是一个鼓。机器运行到Bugles的声音。在手车上类似浴缸。没有更大的。任何一端都在制动。 Eight men man the brakes. It is simply a pump on a wheelbarrow. In operation, pump lifted from cart and set on the ground. Firemen have regular manual exercise. Saw the sixty-seven Companies drill in front of supposed burning building, three stories high. Two Companies at a time. Word of command given by one general officer. First operation is to tip up the hand-cart. Pump next taken off and set on the ground. Axes, short-hooked ladder and coils of rope, which cart also carries, laid convenient for use. Ladders raised to second story. Firemen ascend and enter. Hose and pipe haul d up by rope. Whereat they pump. Pumping at this trial a mere form. No water used. Exhibition terminated at second story. How these garden hose get water to the third or fourth is to me a mystery. ‘ Pompiers ’ wear several pounds of brass on their heads, short jackets, baggy trousers and very wide belt having sundry iron rings. Some indulge in embryo coat tails. Officers wear epaulettes. Drill after the fashion of artillery.’ Pompiers’ stand in place, two on either side of Cart. Each has his special function. Remainder in ranks look on. Singular sight, however, for a New York Fireman to see sixty-seven pumps on handcarts pass for a Fireman’s Parade. Next to see them tip up the carts and take the Engine off. Lastly, to see the Company run to a fire with three ‘Pompiers’ throwing away their wind on the bugles Instead of the brakes. However, there is not so much to burn in Paris as in New York. Walls and partiiions here of solid stone eighteen inches thick. New York man would have an extra store in space occupied by walls in one Parisian house.”
