The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-07-18
Water Works.

The fire OF July 4sh, by which
four stores were consumed and
their valuable stock destroyed, is
an Old lesson to this town and its
familiarity to the patriarchs of this
borough, is, one wonld think,
enough to have made then learn it
| by this time; but it Is the same
old seven and SIX and as soon as
| the ashes Of this contlsgration
have cooled cur enterprsing cit
liens will get hack into the same
old rut regarding i fire a. the
dweller In Arkansas did his taky
roof, which, when it sained, could
not be fixed, and when it was not
raining. didn't need fixing. When
there is fire there is no water to
be had and when there i. not a
fire, no provision for water is con-
sidered necessity.
Let me draw two pictures: The
| fire is discovered in the Bazar
store, and in so incipient state of
progress that apparently, a few
buckets of water would quench it,
but wheIe is the water? That fit
full and exceedingly modest and re-
firing tire engine? holds possibly 90
gallons of water when it is not full
of gas, and the generous hose at
tached to it you could stop up
with your thumb.
Gentlemen, when you 60 to put
out fire with 81 gallons of alleged
fire exterminator you are going to
get left. This remarkable una
chine is brought forth to the fray.
Ia the meantime the fire gains rap
i'd Roadway and is soon beyond
control and then where is your
squirt gun2
All the adjoining stores are
empties of their valuable stock ;
and in their trenZied haste, men
forget to handle fragile goods with
care, and the damage to them is
sometimes over one.half their val
ue. The fire gains Roadway and
one alter another the contiguous
stores are ignited, until four are
destroyed, and at last, by superhu-
man efforts, the danes are stopped
at the walls of the two stores which
now are the boundaries of the
burned district.
What a sight! A fire that in
Nashville would have been put out
in zen minutes, is the destroyer of
four OF our business interests and
all 70 the want OF that prime fac
tor III fighting fire-plenty of wa
ter.
You who voted steadtastly
against water works, put this in
your meerschaum and doze of tC
sleep by the fumes thereof.
Now for our brief other picture
The fire 10 discovered and the
alarm sounded. Willing hands
drag out the hose-cart and connect
the hose to tae hydrant, and five
minutes after the fire is discovered
you have four streams merrily play
ing on the fire-streams that nc
thumb can plug. up but whose.pow
er to save is.on par with religion
: The fire is soon out and the tired
! firemen retire to rest with the
sweet consciousness that they are
the equals of citizens in our 81 lei
towns as far as fighting fire il
concerned.
/ would give more for a fire plug
| at the corner of the square with
two connections TO it than | would
FOR dom such chemical engines
as you DOW possess
Some OF our enterprising citizen:
| argue-"what.use are water work,
1 without fire e-gine?'
II reservoir was built on the
hill south OF Fort Hill" the pres
ure generated by the. descent ol
the water through the pipes, would
throw water over any building ir
Pulaski. You may not believe
this. | can but refer you TO any
expert on hydraulics and you will
, fiod that be Will corrohorate my
stat"ment. If you anti water
works men are 40 utterly lost Il
all metropolitan ia as of running {
p town, as To sit around aud .et al
= event like such as has called forth
9 thus article destroy your business
inte: ests, you desrse 10 lose all lha
you paved for the entertalnm, n
that vas sfioi ded our transfer
Il
d visitors and fellow citizens on las
Il Thursday night. To my mind
d. Pulaskian's teri,r of ax.liun i
"a paramount; and the only ieaso
VII, yeu don't have water is be
=" cause you would have to put you
1t hands down in your pockets an