Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-03-03
Our Fire Protection.

erousy near burning the third.
The little house occupied by Mr.. J. J. Milf
gan owned by H. M. Warren was discovered to
be on fire about 20 minutes to II. The writer
was on hand promptly or within few minutes
after the first alarm. All the top of the house
was in light blaze but part of the furniture
was removed after we arrived on the scene.
The house was not large one and at first
we had no idea that the P. B. Owen home 40 or
50 feet away would burn. We believe it could
have been saved with dozen buckets and ham
DIV water supply, as the build ing was low enough
to have been easily protected, but everybody
waited for the arrival of the hose wagon and for
some time there was no effort to remove the fur
niture from the Owen residence. The hose
wagon did not show up. The minutes were. OF
course, long ones when finally the hose wagon
came in sight. The half dozen men who had itin
tow were completely exhausted, from dragging
the heavy wagon the eight blocks intervening
between the fire and the city hall. They had
responded promptly to the alarm and had done
everything their physical strength was capable
of enduring to reach the fire with the apparatus,
and the second building was doomed by short
delay in turning on the water. 1t was much
larger structure than the first building ana
made quite hot fire. greatly endangerlng the
Renke's residence, next door, from which all the
household goods were removed The pressure
was weak on account of bursted main and the
comb of the two story building was barely
reached bv the stream For some time the
issue was in doubt
The fire boys did their faithful best under
the circumstances but the result was very dis
appointing to every property owner who wit
messed the fire.
There is one remedy-only one, and that's
an arrangement by which the hose wagon can
promptly respond to an alarm or call. BY the
time the fire boys are aroused from their
homes by night alarm and make race for the
citv hall and lug the old wagon along, a
dozen CITY blocks they not only exhausted
but too much important time has been lost
Miller Co.. of New York. recently issued
cotton facts worth remembering" in which
we find this statement: a, y
AN UNPLEASANT CONTRAST.t ): +.
We, of the United States, feel very proud
of our growth and commercial prestige, but
there is one page of our record. which should
be kept open before until the figures shall
have been revised. Although we raise 1870 of
the world 8 supply of raw cotton, other nations
manufacture the bulk of the worlds needs from
the same cotton. The value of exports of cot
ton goods and yarns, from the United States
and from Great Britain for the past two years.
presents the following striking contrast:
EXPORTS OF COTTON GooDs AND YARNS.
United States Britain
19O4-O5 $49,l46, 900 $393,519,000
1oO3-O4 272oOOOO 34O,282,OOO
It is gratifying to note the increase of over
80 per cent in our exports within twelve month
but the total is still shamefully small. The
time must come when the United States will
export more than $500,OOOOO0 worth of
ufactured cotton goods otherwise we shall not
have fulfilled our exploits in other industrial
lines.
There will be numerous efforts made in
the next few weeks to muddy the political
waters in Irwin. but the people cannot be side
tracked from the main issue.-Ocilla Star.
MM
They have a new brand of whiskey in some
of the dry counties of North Georgia. It's
called the instantaneous" 1t is made instan-
taneously from powders and produces deathly
sickness instantaneously, and at least one man
died instantaneous1y from overdose. The
main difference between this new brand aud
the old brands of brooze seems to be that the
new brand is instantaneous while the other
gives the opportunity of acting the hog and the
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