Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-06-20

The New York Fire of 1885 Cost
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human knowledge at that time. The
general impression of the importance and
significance of this fire is, no doubt, aug
mented in great measure by the alleged
answer of this Saracen conqueror, who
replied to the protest against the burning
with: IF these books are against the
Koran they are pernicious and must be
destroyed. If they agree with the Koran
they are redundant and need not be pre-
served" and it is not generally remem-
bcred that Julius Caesar burned larger
library of 700, 900 volumes at Alexandria,
known as the Brucian Library, B. c. 4S,
nearly 100 years before the burning of the
Serapaum Library by Omar l.
At times of sack and pillage Jerusalem
has been burned time and again, the
most noted instance being at the siege
by the Romans under Titus during the
year 70, when a faction called the Sicariti
set the city on fire in many places, and
eventually 100000 of the inhabitants
persisted by fire and the sword.
Constantinople has, like all Oriental
cities. suffered severely from fires, large
part of such losses being undoubtedly due
to the fatalism of the Mohammedans,
who bow to their kismet. Said a sultan:
"If it be the will of the Allah that my ia
vorite city burn, it is the will of Allah.
In DilIaway's quaint account of travels
in the Levant in 1897 it is stated that the
sultan is summoned three times to a fire
in Constantinople. and if the fire lasts
one hour he is obliged to attend in person
and bring mules laden with piasters for
the tremcn.
A great fire at Rome, ~ B. c., caused
the Emperor Augustus to take measures
for increasing the defense against fire,
which had been hitherto in the hands of
bodies of police, numbering 20 or 30, sta
toned in various portions of the city, and
volunteers He appointed new officers
with the rank Of ma istrates, who were
entitled to wear IN; ,istrates' robes. Each
was attended by two Iictors and provided
with fire organization of 600 slaves.
1t is probable that this was not entirely
satisfactory in its operation, because six
wears later another llre caused him to I'M
lertake further reforms on a scale fully
characteristic of him who found the
city built of brick and left with palaces
of marble" He increased the fire de-
partmcnt to scale commensurate with
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