New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-19
FIRE ALARM AND POLICE TELEGRAPH.

No stronger testimony Of the usefulness of this
system of fire alarms could possibly be given than
faithful record Of its operations in the city of Balti
more on the 4th instant. The telegraph had just
been completed. On the I'd instant, only two days
before it had gone into practical operations the opera
tors and fremeD were, of course, comparatively mex
perenced in its workings, and yet we End il exhibit
ing extraordinary efficiency and achieving remarka
BILE results in preserving property, from the thirty
sepen fires which occurred on that day.
The Chief of the Fire Department had issued orders
for three salutes of one hundred bells each, at 4
o'clock A. NJ IL NJ and P. NJ, in honor Of the day.
Accordingly, at A. NJ, the city aroused by one
hundred blows, struck at regularly measured inter-
vals upon the alarm bells from the central station by
the telegraph-the first telegraphic Fourth Of July
salute record But the fates had planned more
arduous task for its performance, and soon the fire.
end's villainous saltpeter agents, done up in the
disguise Of fire works, began to carry out his design
At about 6 o'clock A. NJ. the first alarm came into the
central office and simultaneously communicated
to the Fire Department, which promptly extinguished
the fire. This but the beginning for alarm after
alarm came in during the day, the aggregate num-
Der OF them being thirtyseven, and there being at
time four distinct fires in different portions of
the city. Undoubtedly an appalling destruction of
property would have resulted but for the potent
sistance OF the lightning courier recently pressed
into the service in such useful application, and
through the instrumentality Of which Fire Depart
ment may be rendered almost omnpotent in CONTROL.
ing the ravages which the element ia apt to commit
when it gets loose in city. The total loss by these
thirtyseyen fires did not exceed Ave thousand dol.
lars and we leave the reader to calculate what it
would have been but for the fire.aarm telegraph
which at once brought the fremen to the exact spot
so soon as fire indicated ITSELF At P. NJ, when
men and horses down with the duties
of the day. the telegraph with undated ardor rang
out its parting salute if it had been doing work
at all.
1t is worthy of remark that, though the operators
were inexperienced, there was not single instance
in which the alarm was not correctly received and
promptly communicated. In this case and in hun.
dreds of others the frealarm telegraph has demon
strated its great usefulness and it is therefore
pertinent when other cities conclude to adopt it, as
| the many have before. The action of our city au-
thorities was based on the well known character of
the system when they initiated the measure of its
introduction, which has already received the ap.
prova OF the Assistant Board and is to come before
the Aldermen tonight for their concurrence.
| General Cass has assumed q double.headed eagle
for his political cres-one head applies to the Amer
can citizenship OF naturazed Aliens and the other to
the military and conscrpt service which they owe to
their mother country. Louisville Journal.
This indicates that the Secretary sympathizes with
Austria in the present warfare, the national emblem