, 1860-11-01
TWO PRESSING WANTS.

I
The fire Mt Lii d Diverscy's Brewery
last Friday evening, proved most conclu-
sivcly, first, tile necessity for the introduc~
ton Of the Fire Alarm Telegraph in this
city; and secondly, the want Of at least four
more Steam Fire Engines to be added to
tho Fire Department
Large manufacturing establishments Of
cvcy kind must he situated remote from
tue center Of the city. Most Of these, from
their nature, are more Liable to take fire
than other classes Of buildings, and 10 burn
more rapidly when ignitcd; so that unless
means Of cxtinguisting flames arc soon On
the spot, the chances Of saving them arc
small indeed. This is illustrated by the
case before lis. ILL 6 Divcrscy's Brewery
is far from the center Of tho city, and, con-
scquently, although Mr. Lill promptly sent
horscman to the Court House and to each
ofthc engine houses, yet the fire acquired
such headway before the arrival of the
steamers, that for long time, it was
doubtful whether the fire would be cxtin-
guislled or the building destroyed Eowit
is often impossible to to dispatch horse
man for assistance, and the fircmen gencr-
ally remain in Ignorance Of the existence of
q fire until the flame and smoke ret 1aree
enough to be dcsccrnible by the Court
House lookout, and the alarm is sounded
by him. This tardy alarm merely indicates
certain "district," which district may
cover space Of two or three square
miles, and the fire engines rush of to
hunt IN the fire How infinitely su-
pcrior to this system il the telecranh.
which communicates to each cnrinc house
the exact spot Tint il the sccnc of
conflagration. with instantaneous ouicluess
and precision. We arc bel,ind the ace in
suffering suc], m Improvement To exist
without adopting it in our own civ. In
Paris, the third civ of the world in size. a
large fire occurs hardly once a year. for
thc reason that n nor;cc the most n,mer-
OILS. best discinlincl md most effective If
any ,.i,v in tho world hv 1,o;rc cons+,,t1v
on the watch, nreocut fires In eyt;ncu;s1,;nr
them at ,hc;r commencement md tbua
s,rin~ 5am,rc br water os wa11 No 1;rc
1c. ne .,so ,n,,r nrerent;on 10 uc,1 90 vo
re may Ch;coro cannot have snch m.
lice as has Paris. for its annual cost il over
$4,000, 600. and it would lie better to suffer
the r,yaces of fire 1,an s,,ch n tax Ru.
at an exnensc of perl,ans s25 t)f we could
Introduce the Fire TcIccrnnl, which vou1d
answer onr nurnose ne,rlv nc vcu 1,s
cost like tl,nt of thc Steam Enrincs won,d
he norc than s,ycd 10 tJ,c ritz in onc rear
IN 1,,c ,csscncd dom,oe hv 4irra and IN ~.
ducc,1 ,,tcs or insurance let m one Then
oh;cc. IL i, IN t1,c scorc of economy Tho
system l,as been established in the c;t;cs of
Boston. New Orleans and St. Louis. in all
Of which il has proyed complctc success
Let Chicaro i1nitatc their example and a1so
adoDt if without dctay.
We have now six steam enpines, It wos
annarent 10 every one who was \ snecta-
tor. that this number was insufficient for
the fire Of Friday evening last owinc 10
thu cro,, e:yo or Tho 1,,;,d;no. ord vot vo
have bundrf,1s or bm;,d;n@s ~ 1,roc o-
larger. While the steamers were fich,inr
tbe f,amcs n, 1,,c south sidc oftbo 1ro1rcr1,
and in front ,1,e fra c,;noa r.n;d1v an the
onnositc s;lc and ,tc ;ts w,v in tho rem
tou,r1 t1o o,,,or Ct ,,,,t,,~os t,,rc,tcn;rr ~
consume the entire nile Of buildings some B
fair hundred frct n 1cnc4h =. CO hat SER.
cral hosc.,,;,,cs had IN hc ncmovcd from
stations where thcy were do;nr good ser-
vicc 10 cpcnincs on tbc nonb side and Mt
+te r,.,r Ar,;n ,,,;,o III sro rn. 1,o:a.
su1,7,ca IN ,1,c 1ower no,+ of t,,c 1,r;1a;ng
It crert ;n,o 4bc nnner e,or;ce and h,,rst
t,r,nr1, ,he roor onro,on;na .broc ~ .ho
woo]e,, strncturrz m the to1 1nrn;no IN.