Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-23

aially the water In that quarter Of
Paris has pressure OF two atmoR-
pheres." That day, apparently. there
was something the matter with II, for
ii certainly did not have the pressure
of half an atmosphere. Do all they
could with IL, the stream declined to
put on enough force TO got into the
shop; IL only flooded the pavement.
The lieutenant was still more vexed.
He started toward the iiremen Mt the
end of the hose, but wien he got to the
flooded pavement he stopped and de-
liberately caught the legs of his
creased trousers between his two white
gloved thumbs and forefngers. holsted
them an inch. and pursued his way
through the slop on the high heels OF
his boots, exactly as some women cross
muddy street At this vancouver
every one of the Americans on the
balcony, girls and az. burst into roar
of laughter. The lieutenant looked up
instantly and got very red when he
saw the pretty girls.
After fifteen minutes two more en-
gines arrived, a rope was now tied
around one of the firemon and he en-
tered the smoky shop to explore. In
n few minutes he came back with the
information that there was no fire in
the shop, but that there was a little
blaze in the cellar and II great deal
OF smoke. AT that there was great in
dustry. The hose was soon attached
to the two able bodied engines. and at
last there was water for the fire.
During these operations one OF the leu
tenants was swiped across the stom-
ach by a section of wet hose, and the
two firemen who were manipulating
it We're Immediately put under arrest
and removed from the scene.
All this time the Americans on the
balcony We're enjoying themselves
hugely. When they were not Shrek
ing with laughter they We're talking
away at one another as If thcyhad been
friends all their lives The eagles
wings were spread very wide ana he
did nothing but scrceCh. The stately
old man who had held the open watch,
seeing that the company were In such
an nmiahle frame of mind, started to
talk to everybody generally.
II have lived in Paris four years" he
said land | have seen perhaps twenty
fires. This one Is the best. take 1t all
in all, OF the twenty. ! mean that 1t
Is being fought with the fewest bitches.
These French soldiers are babies as
fire fighters. Don't think that they
are not good men: It isn't that. It's
the system that's at fault. You prob
ably know that this fire department
forms brigade Of sappers and miners
In the regular army. The men are re-
cruited for It by CONSUMPTION, as in the
rest of the army. You notice that they
are all young. That Is natural when
they enter the service Mt 81 and remain
but three years. Can you make
good fireman in three years? Prob
ably you can: hut when these young
fellows become good flremen, when they
really learn something of the business.
their time is up. and they are succeed
ed by lot of other country boys, who
know nothing. How can w make an
efficient fire department with such u
system as that?
"There are no fire departments in the
world like those Of America, and no
Hremen like good Irish-American
They beat the world. And" the old
man added, with a smile, 81 believe 1
know something about it, for in my
young days l ran for six years with
the hottest and sportiest hose company
In the Bowery."