Arizona republican., 1903-11-22
A RUN TO A FIRE
The Way George Aikire Would Have
 Saved the Indian School.

That George AlkiIe did not save the buildings of the Indian school. from to- tal destruction the other night was no fault of his. No department in the Uni- ted States CT elsewhere in the world yer responded to fire alarm with greater promptness. He was on hand, the water supply was ample and everv- thing was ready for. a fire fight.
 MT. AIkire lives not very far from the Indian. school. That is he lives some where in that vicinity but far enough away to have a chance to make a good and creditable run. The fire alarm was sent in about II o'clock at night. MT. AIkire was in bed and asleep. Since the event of a couple of months ago he has been more sensitive to fire alarms than he used to be or the alarm would not have disturbed him. But he was awakened by the first stroke of the hell. He was in his shoes in an instant and he was already in his ajama@. The echoes of the fire bzll had not dfed away before he had yanked his Indian boy out of bed and made him under stand that the school was burning up and that its salvation rested with them.
 That race down the road to the fire " stS NtI LII SOiIl5 NO Stts AS tue AJAlt7 !ank, 1.-the form of Mir. Alkire burst through the atmosphere one could plainly hear the sound of the cleavage. The Indian boy, who was of stCckier build could not have kept in sight brt fer the fact that MT. Alkire ran before and acted as a windshield so that the Indian had to encounter GlmCst no at mOspheiC resistance at all In fact Ia, T ,Tg ion, and the going was made carrier for him. Every one has seen fast running eE-' press trains pick up gravel and light objects behind. That is called suction but it really is not. The air having been split apart rushes together again and then forward to fill up the vacuum so cordially abhorred hy nature. So. the Indian hoy was being constantly propelled forward into the ever chang ing vacuum created by MT. Alkire.
 When the Alllire fire department came within sight of the Indian school buildings the chief could see the grounds apparently filled with people but nobody seemed to be doing any thing. Everybody from the superin- tendcnt to ahe infant class was appsr- ently paralyzed by the fiery disaster, 
 Tn Iue time he reached the grounds ard rushing in asked the first boy he met to show him the red demon. He was prepared to throttle it in it's lsir Nobody knew where it was and nobody seemed to care. Mir. All1ire in all. his experience had never seen SO mucn apathy shown at a fire
 some little time was spent in quieting him and then it was explained to him that there was no fire but that fire drill was in progress. Mir. Alkire could rot ct first assimilate the explanation but when if had finally tunneled it's way in he asked: But isn't this rath- or unsea sOnable hour for fir drill? Why wouldn't it be better to have the dril'. along in the middle of the fore noon or.the middle of the afternoon? should think drills at this time of night would have Q tendency to break your rest
 The superintendent replied that in training to fight fire it was necessary to do as one would d. in training to fight anything; take into account what the enemy is likely to do and a fire he said was as likely to break out at II o'clock as at any other hour of the twcnty-fCur