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FIRE SCENES.
house, and after the ordeal the firemen have gone through they, like st of us, are glad to welcome that old familiar air, "There's No Place Like Home." You see them pull into their quarters, draw the fires from under the engine and back the apparatus into the fire house. This closes one of the greatest sets of pictures ever shown, and one that has created more excitement, applause and enthusiasm than any act or set of pictures ever shown on the American stage.
S. F. 364. THE RETURN TO QUARTERS. Price. S6.00.
Approximate Length, 50 feet.
The fire has been subdued; lives have been saved and the fire hero, after doing his duty to the best of his ability, returns to the fire house to await the next call. The horses are seen briskly trotting and men resting in their seats after the exertions which they have so bravely undergone.
S. F. 365. FIRE ENGINE AT WORK. Price, S6.00.
Approximate Length, 50 feet.
The fire run of engines, hose cart, etc., going to a fire has always been a popular subject and a great number of them have been made. In this film, however, we present a novelty, the first moving picture ever made of a fire engine in actual work on a burning building. This picture was taken during the actual progress of a very disastrous fire in the city of Chicago and is an admirable representation of the work done by the improved fire engine.
RAILWAY SCENES.
S. F. 486. BLACK ROCK TUNNEL ON THE Price. S7.80.
ROCK ISLAND ROUTE.
Approximate Length, 65 feet.
This picture was taken on the Rock Island railroad at that picturesque spot. Black Rock. 100 miles west of Chicago, near La Salle. 111. The train approaches and passes through the tunnel: it has hardly passed through the tunnel and around the curve, when another train is seen rapidly approaching on the farther side of the tunnel. Clear and sharp it approaches closely and seems as if it would pass through the tunnel, but just as it is apparently about to do so it turns to the side and passes around it. The train is lost to sight for a moment behind the giant rocks and then appears again at full speed heading for the camera, passing it with lightning speed. Trains on the westbound tracks pass through the tunnel, eastbound trains on river bank around and outside the bluff. Only instance where one track passes through a tunnel and the other track o
e of the best train pictures ever taken. Full of action and life.
S. F. 487. CALIFORNIA LIMITED. Price. S9.O0.
Approximate Length, 75 feet.
The Santa Pe's great trans-continental limited was phed
it at La Junta. Cola The picture shows first, the "Hib Express tion men and their hand ear. The car comes int.> the
picture while the limited is still several miles away in ti.
W hundred feet down the road, the men alight and i>ecrin work on the track. The limited, with a m mountain-climbing engine, comes rushing up amid great excitement into the audit
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