Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-26


lampsl 100 came from sparks 81 Gre and
t1ifiy-eight from Improperly seq stores.
on THIS SIDE or THE WATER
The city of fialliax. Nosin Scotia.
with only 10000 pcoplel has 3 vonntces
FIRE department % H2b men, nearly half
as many as IA tho great city ~ London.
~ hos tour sieam IRE engines and niue
tcnths Of ils buildings are v1odcu. OF
tawA. which Is larger than Halifax. lHs
only enc steam lire engine snd ouchrc.
with twice To- population. las two tfi'on
fire enflncs aud a paid hre department
consisting % a marshal and hsty men.
The town 81 Acapulco. Mcxic2. has
population ol 5000 the buildings arr all
Of adobe brick The place hfsn't oven
means Of giving IRE alarm: 40 fire
insurance OF any Kind u carrlud There
there Is no Gre department of any find
aud no water supply for Dire puipgscs.
DunnEo, with 5000 pcouic had ihrcu
fires IN 1870 with small loss rhc city
has no fire department and no water
Tor fire PURPOSES Tho place IA bi'lt
almost entirely of unhurncl brick, though
o few dwellings, arc ol Nono.
IN buenOa Ayrea Argentine, With OO.-
VQ population, the houses are ninuet
entirely of brick aud stone there bciug
moi more than 1000 frame structures.
The city bus q paid Gre department IL
ncariy 200 mcn, aud, being the capital
Of the republic. the hpmen are Maid hy
the state The city has three good steam
hv engines, with oil ncccssafy apila-
ratua.
lhc city Of Havana IN 800 Ind Ga.
GOO people and coycra only 202T aies,
making nearly TO.OOO pcra0ns 10 Tic
square mile. Except In ChnA 10 dense
q POPULATION De- rarely sOcu. lllr iSOO0
hcp,rs q the city are built of limcitouc.
brick being Uscd to q very limited tx.
TENT fitss ore of mrc occurrences, there
lNl0 81 which httcen only had 10 he
Wungnishcd hy nrcmcn One hundred
Ahd MY wen are assigned g. Gee duty
nuiy,
ligymut syria, has population Of iOO.-
VOO, She buildings IN being stone and
huph' iho lawn has H3 persons 20 tho
horr OF nrru Thow is no fire depart
ncnt aud fires aru NOT common M ctso
q htc hrcakH out the whole dependence
Tor hvp rests upun rhnucO volunteers.
TIE oiu city Of Jerusalem Inns $1,000
pcople, ond ils huildnrs Nrc an of etoue.
, il"ro was only onp fire in the year 1891.
ihgrv is wulN ma wNtcr sysicm here,
ana when q hrD starts tho Turkish sol.
oilers tnkc uNca and march ou an II thuy
MpW Nonr 20 "a nnrndV. lhOy nCNrr
run 90 q ere. Iloy have at thair inr.
racks for ilao in tlo cly ono tuh holding
Nhg9ut halt barrel md @ small hump
Win uhout twenty tupt ~ leather pine.
But This apparatus h svcr used, aa thcy
never have any water When ,ho sol.
dlprs roach a FIRE thcy smash up evofy.
Thing they eau with lhclr nypa. a. tho
gAiuenn II changed every year, 10 he
pfvhhhlr THAT not one of these soldiers in
hundred over saw q ilr \ photo
grpphcrs shop was burned m 1901 nfd
soldiers stood within forty foot 0f Ii
und did not even give nn alarm
Ia 1891 Bombay had S2L1Bi inhnhl.
ianls aud covered 1920 acres MOIST
upnn umhor Framework for their Ntn-
hility, Me Hpncps va this framework
hcng hllpd un with masonry, mostly
brick work. No houses having thelr Ox-
ivrnnl walls of nlnnks or othrr innlmn-
bic materials niV permitted. Thorc nre
1Hua buildings in The city md nn ave
grnke IN twrnty'tour persons To n build
iur Tho city Inns seven atpnm fire ca.
nnus, with many hand tire engines and
puid department of 10 mon, Tho nnm.
her NJ fires w 1870 WIS only nfB-hYe
aud M 1901 hliyoight Ia 1901 tho
CONSUMPTION OF city w4ier Ia bombay
was only nineteen gnllOnn n day for
cnch porson Of populNtlos. about Que.
flNti the average for Chicago
ihn ritA 0i Hong Kong hsH Ipnrlv n
quarter p! n million of people. OILY H..
OW of thom being Bhush, but that
'N'lNNNi h'iNNNiNh NNN hNN NlNru tho
town The best vi Wulnrwnrks and "a trFt.
olnls hre department with s,onm nro
gnEnra for both lnnd and wutar sorviu.
The work of building HE 0pucducla,
tunnels nul roaoly0lrs tor The Hnfg.
Kong water supply was simply nfodld.
GUS
Tho city OF Bangkok Siam. with O00,.
ulO people has uo Hyntcm of public water
supply no law regulating buildings. no
Insurance on buildings IN the " allied
portion Of TIE rlly no hres occur, the
BUILDINGS nil being Of brick and crnnit
Outside those walls The housr8 nru az
brick uni hnmhup, Onc.st0rY hlrh aud
many nie iQatlng hoihes dppn The canal.
The ciieH uf Australia hnNr prUty
much ull that ~ modern Ia the WAY of
Gro apparatus. The houses are almost
entirely built Of stone and irirl, and
routed with slatinr or iron. Melbourne
liH 200 ilfcmpu, four atpnm Gre cngnta
With baud engines hlty.hyc alntlOna and
1000 feet of hose