Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-18

The Lord Mayor of London puts on
more style than royalty. Certainly his
carriage was not drawn by eight cream
stations bedeclxed with red morocco
and gold mounted harness. but the car
riage itself from gilt and Respondent
point of view far surpassed the equip
age used by the queen at Jubilee
time. The mayor. attended by his mace
benrer,was gorgeous In cooked hat and
ermine. one of the most popular fea
lures of the show was a lifeboat, as
brought up from Hastings, manned
by its stalwart crew of cork belted
gallant lifesavers. the same being
mounted upon the original trucks
that are used when launching the boat
into the boiling surf. But Ii was ein-
phatically the companies of fremen,ail
wearing their shining brass Roman
helmets and great many carrying
upon their breasts medals that be-
spoke deeds OF bravery and courage,
that aroused the enthusiasm of the
populace. AS in any city the world
over, the fireman was the hero idol
lied by the populace. the star of a
theatrical company, the hero of
novel so to speak. With steady tramp
they passed, bearing their heads and
heavy ACCOMPLISHMENTS proudly.
Ten short days later saw the ma
jority OF these men fighting the big
gest fire that has been witnessed in
the metropolis since 1Gd6-that mem
orable Great Fire of London. Fifty
seven steamers could not suhdue the
flames last Friday until s25,0Oo,OO0 had
gone up in smoke and 800 Offices and
warehouses had been reduced to ashes
SiXty-five thousand tons of water We're
poured upon the flames: so rapidly did
the latter spread that publican in
the next street bewailing that he
would not have enough beer to quench
the firmen's thirst, rushed frantlcally
out of his burning premises twenty
minutes later As soon as the firemen
realized that the Grape Vine was
burning, rumor says they worked like
Trojans to save that ancient pub"
II was all of no avail. Street after
street went down before the holocaust.
ere the primitive nozzles got the upper
hand.
1t was no fault of the firemen, for
they are a splendid body of men, I'M
derpaid and overworSed as they are.
How are they to fight fire successfully
and speedily with the weapons at
their disposal? one might as well arm
trained soldiers with bows and arrows
and expect them to stem an over
whelming cavalry charge with such
weapons. Without any braggadocio
Salt Lake City can shake hands with
herself and say that she has a better
equipped fire department than the
best fire station In the largest city of
the world Fancy with but three ex-
| ceptlons) in every station in Lon
don there Is no rod for the men to slide
down to the floor below to answer a
call-they tumble downstairs when
they get ready.In the majority of cases
the horses are kept at the rear of the
station house and are led up an alley
| previous to hitching. True, they are al
| ways harnessed, but in any case two
men invariably hitch the tugs on to
| the engine. In the city of London there
is not a single chemical engine and in
Il q ~
| other day he displayed utter ignorance
! as to what II ball-noZzle resembled.
| London has not Il single water tower,
or n single hook and ladder truck that
can be reared independent of the sup
port of buildings. To see run to a
fire, as ] witness several times a week.
is truly ludicrous. The horses go
along at trot, with an aggregation
| OF rag-tag- and bobtail keeping up with
the engine alongside. Truly the traffic
is dense but why not educate the
| same to get out of the way. or climb a
lamp post Mt the sound of the gong?
However. London fire engines are not
furnished with gongs. the horses are
decked with sleighbells instead.
London has at last awakened, and
this state of affairs is being freely VEN
| tilated in the press. Colonel Rotton Ga
| most suggestive nance, chairman of
the fire committee of the London
| county council, Indignantly retaliates
| in today's Mail; he designates chemi-
| cal engines as useless fads," and a
water tower as "a ladder with a hose
attachment at the top" The chairman
| of this out-of-date senile council of
| grandmothers concludes his interview
| with the following AT headquarters
we turn out much quicker than they
do in New York. We have been under
way in sixteen seconds after the ring
| ing of the bell. That is our record. on
other occasions l have known II done
| in nineteen seconds, and twenty-one."
Can you beat that Chief Devine?
There are several Utahnians staying
| in town, including Mrs. Mary Hunt.
DIR. l.. w. Snow, Mr.. r.. v. McCune and
hir charming young bride on their
honeymoon. and Mr.. Brubeck of the
| Sanpete Valley railroad.
The majority of Salt Lakers will re-
member Madam Turner, the beautiful
| specialist who two summers ago used
| to drive n couple of white ponies down
the drive and through Liberty Park.
She is heralded at the Palace theater
as THE Original Descriptive Toe
| Dancer" and ia placarded under the
foreign sounding name of Mile. Titenia.
| One recognizes the hall mark of Phil
Turner in the various advance notices
| one encounters in the papers. Mile.
| Titenia seems as yet to be chiefly fam
| Gus for barbaric notions as regards
Jewels, for she wears hugh affair
consisting of cabochon emerald set
with diamonds which she calls
hand brooch" upon the back of her
| hand. She is trying to introduce an
other fashion, however, upon the long
suffering British public that heaven
forfend should ever become anything
more than n passing freak: Each of
her finger nails-all ten of which are
worn n Ia quill pen. long and scratchy
lis pierced at the end and a gold ring
with diamond attached inserted. In
fact. to use an Hibernism. she wears
earrings AZ the tips of her fingers
Next. GEO. Il. CARPENTER.