Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West

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But I get after them in my

picture with a prod that ought to rouse them to action.

"The picture opens with a scene in the interior of a factory. Men, girls

and boys are employed. The foreman observes a warning crack in the wall

and calls the proprietor's attention to it. In this case the manufacturer

is the owner of the building, but he refuses to make repairs. His

argument is that the wall has stood for many years and so is likely to

stand for many more; it would be a waste of money to repair the old

shell. Next day the foreman shows him that the crack has spread and

extended along the wall in an alarming manner but still the owner will

not act. The workmen counsel together seriously. They dare not desert

their jobs, for they must have money to live. They send a petition to the

owner, who becomes angry and swears he won't be driven to a useless

expense by his own employees. In the next scene the manufacturer's

daughter--his only child--having heard that the building was unsafe,

comes to her father's office to plead with him to change his mind and

make the needed repairs. Although he loves this daughter next to his

money he resents her interference in a business matter, and refuses. Her

words, however, impress him so strongly that he calls her back from the

door to kiss her and say that he will give the matter further thought,

for her sake.

"As she leaves the office there is a cry of terror from the factory and

the working people come rushing out of the now tottering building. That

was when you two young ladies came walking up the street and were dragged

out of danger by the foreman of the shop--in other words, by myself. The

owner's daughter, bewildered by the confusion, hesitates what to do or

which way to turn, and as she stands upon the sidewalk she is crushed by

the falling wall, together with several of her father's employees."

"How dreadful!" exclaimed Patsy.

"Of course no one was actually hurt," he hastened to say; "for we used

dummy figures for the wall to fall upon.

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