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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14

and the allied forces are sheltered in 23s frehouses. The fire department property is worth $6,s37, 1925. The 1,5O0 horses owned by the department are valued at $450,o0o. They are usually young and are selected for their intelligence The prices average $500 for each animal The fire forces are organized and distributed like a great army. There are S4 engine and 35 hook and ladder companies In Manhat- tan and the Bronx; T engines. 25 hook and ladder and six hose companies in Brooklyn and Queens, and eight engine and hose companies and five hook and lad der companies in Richmond
 There are distributed throughout Great CT New York three fire divisions. divided into 60 battalions. There is an average of six companies to a battalion and three battalions to division.
 New York Is so much more congested than Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston that 1t would be difficult to compare the effectiveness of the fire forces in the four cities. except in a general way. Greater New York, for instance, has more than twice as many inhabitants as Chicago; nearly three times as many as Philadel- phia and nearly seven times as many ns Boston. The fire area of Chicago Is 900 acres. that of Philadelphia S2,SOO acres and that of Boston 21,520 acres The fire area of Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island City, not in cluding the outlying sections, is 05,l2O acres. These figures suggest the degrees of congestion in the several cities.
 New York, with her 4,157 fremen and officers has one man to every 1,031 per sons in the city The Chicago force com prises 1924 men, or one to every 1,121 inhabitants. Of the four cities Phlladel- phia has the smallest fire force in propor- tion to her population Her 935 iremen represent one to every 1,4S3 inhabitants. The reputation Boston has for an efficient fire department is sustained Ill this par ticular. With SS7 men to a population of 595 BOO the proportion is one fireman to every 6T1 persons in the city.
 Some idea of the work New York firemeu are called upon to do may be had when it is recalled that S,479 fires were fought in Greater New York in the year 1907, or a daily average of 24. Fire losses in New York last year reached the grand total S6,743, ,4o9. an appreelable increase over the year 1906, but not in excess of the proportionate increase in population.
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uniform were found when the ruins were searched for his charred body.
 First aid to the injured forms an i'm portant part In the education of a fire man. Not only must he know how to rescue one of his comrades or some other person injured in the course of the blaze he is fighting, but he must be ready to apply treatment needed in the resuscita- tion of the stricken one until medical aid can be applied. It is the rescue of one of their comrades that spur the hremen on to the bravest deeds recorded in the annals of the department. Only few months ago a fireman working on the tenth floor of a burning building found himself trapped and there was no means of raising ladder to his level Flames were belehing out from the windows of the eighth and ninth floors and it was impossible to bring the sealing ladder into play. One brave fireman braced himself on ladder which reached mid way between the seventh and eighth floors. With his legs entwined around the rungs of the ladder and arms out stretched he called to his eomrade to jump. Jump he did and landed in the lap of the man who had commanded him to do so, and, getting n firm hold on the sides of the ladder he slid on down to safety. As his rescuer did not follow his example, the battalion chief ordered another fireman to ascend the ladder and ascertain what caused his delay. When he reached the brave fellows side 1t was found that both his legs had been broken by the force of the impact and there he was sitting powerless to move and suf- fering in silence the most excruciating agony. These are a few of many h. stances crowded into the lives of the fre-fighters which illustrate why such un- usual care is exercised in the selection of , men to respond to duty's call.
 When the recruits have served their ap- premiership and Battalion Chief Farrell reports that they are of the proper cali Der, they are assigned to some engine or hose company and there get their first taste of work under fire. It Is the more seasoned men who are assigned to the hook and ladder trucks, for it Is these men who are called upon to do the bulk of the rescue work.
 | The New York Fire Department Is made | up of 4,157 officers and men. The 235 en- | gine hose and hook and ladder companies
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"cat" and "rat" correctly. providing his district leader smiles favorably upon him, which in reality means that he either is, or will become useful member of the Tammany Hall organization, Is reasona- ply sure of some day swinging a club and commanding the lettering classes to "move on." But to become a fireman Is an altogether different proposition. Ap- plicants for the vacancies occurring in this department are subjected to a physi- cal examination second to none in this country. To begin with the applicant must be one of exemplary habits. His past life Is looked into with scrutiny that Is microscopic in detail. This is to insure the examiners that he Is sound in health, wind and limb, and in case of an emer- gency would not wilt A craven has no place here. He is put through a series of measurements that are as thorough and complete as those applied to sus- pected criminals under the Bertillon sys- tenn. His muscular development must be unquestioned, while his heart action is one of the chief essentials to his appli- cation being favorably passed upon.
 Candidates for the fire department, following their physical and moral exam nations, are turned over to Battalion Chief George F. Farrell, who In the past four years has nodded from the raw re- cruits entrusted to his tutelage 1, 400 brave and fearless fremen, scores of whose names have repeatedly adorned the de partment's roll of honor, much coveted goal in the department. The School for Bremen is located on East Sixty seventh street and there the recruits are put through a course of training that only the most fearless and hearty can with stand. These men gather in class every day and are instructed in all the chief
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pany into an engagement one hot sum- mer's day, and was picked up by one of the boys who was carrying him out of harms way when bullet shot him dead without touching the soldier. Had the soldier boy not been carrying the dog the bullet would have found human mark. tiny tombstone marks the dogs grave on the Island of Luzon.
 A cat accident that had a disastrous finale recently occurred In Ohio. A Buckeye State farmer was moving, when in some way he ran over the family cat, cutting off it's hind legs. He started for the house to get his shotgun to put the poor beast out of its misery. In return ing he stumbled and the gun went off, blowing the top of his head to pieces and killing him instantly. There is said to be actually on the records of the claims department of a prominent accident in- surance company claim of California man who tried to collect $50 on the plea that both his hands were burned while he was trying to put out a lire in his horses tail that was caused by a hre- cracker careessly thrown by small boy.
 Of course, railroad men in all countries have many freak accident stories to tell. Sometime last August in Georgia driv- ing wheel on an engine broke and DOT tion of it crashed through the cab, strik- ing the engineer and breaking his leg. The train was going at the rate Of o0 miles an hour, and it is likely that the list of casualties would have been an awful one but for the fact that another portion of the burst wheel struck some part of the airbrake mechanism, setting the brakes and bringing the train to full stop. At another time, somewhere in Nebraska, an engine is said to have jumped the track and landed in a bed of quicksand. It disappeared from view en- tirely within three days and was never recovered.
 Both collars and neckties have been known to save human life. The collar story is railroad story and properly comes in at this juncture. The necktie story has nothing to do with rairopds, but presumably belongs here because col lars and neckties go together.
 The man who was saved by the collar is Edward F Conncrty. He was run
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
Planning Resolutions in London.

London is the political volcano of Europe, but, similar to certain seismic disturbances. the shock Is not felt in Englanu, but in some distant part of the Continent. The trouble, however, Is arranged in the metropolis. Secret socie- ties are continually working and plotting towards the realization of their ideals that is to say, the overthrow of the more or less despotc European rulers and the establishment in their stead of republics or anarchistic communes.
 The one fact established Is that the sub jects of Turkey and the Czar have very real grievances indeed, and are In need of far-reaching civil and political re- forms. But unfortunately for them and their countries, the advocates and pio- neers of the new era of liberty have no means to carry on at home propa- ganda In the name of humanity and jus tice Instead of granting their subjects the liberty of conscience and speech which the English people enjoy, the ty- rants of Europe prosecute every liberal minded man and send him to prison and the gallows, a circumstance which drives the enlightened youth to despair and to the adoption of violent means. Instead of the peaceful propaganda we come face to face with an underground movement of lawless conspiracy and murder. Being driven from their own native country and practically from every continental coun- try, they have to choose between com ing free to England and death.
 In consequence London has become the headquarters of every revolutionary so- ciety. Here they discuss their plans and arrange for their operations. In London they plot a coup in their native land, such as killing m official or robbing government. London supplies the fire arms. In London they make their ex- plosives and bombs and print their revo- lutionary papers; to London they return after they have done their duty or escaped from prison.
 The leaders of these secret societies are mostly students and writers, men of unimpeachable character, like Prince Kra- potkin and numerous other distinguished people. These societies are organized as to their nationalities and their princi- pies, the most typical ones of which are the Russians, Polish, Jewish and Lettish organizations. The Russians are again split up into anarchists. nihilists and so- cial democrats.
 In the same districts we find the revo- lutionary Poles, the Let's and the Jews, the last-named forming the powerful or ganization of the ''Bund' and the various anarchist groups which. under the name of the "Yiddish speaking Anarchlstic Fed eration of Great Britain and Ireland, count some IS branches in the Midlands, in Scotland Ireland and Wales, and are now steadily progressing, Swansea being the last acquisition.
 These Jewish groups have in hand the alien trade unionism of England. and the time will come when, fin the case of strikes, the foreign anarchists will have to
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be reckoned with in England. Next ir interest and importance come the Young Turkish and Armenian groups, the latter forming two societies known as the Hunk archists and the Dashnakatuns, organiza tions which have sworn death to the Suj' tan and mean to keep their word Fur ther, there are Creek Roumanlan Ser yian, Italian, Spanish, German Austrian Belgian and French anarchstlc groups IT London, with some two or three English groups, that publish paper of their own
 As far as England is concerned, the members of the secret societies are most lawabiding and usually hardworking ar tisans, but as soon as their days worb is done they drop their tools and con gregate in some club or secret meeting place, where they devote their leisure time to the work of undermining the DO sition of their respective governments, tc making explosives and smuggling firearms and illegal literature.
 Accidents happen sometimes in these lab oratories. A short time ago man had his hand blown of in South London ow ing to the explosion of some chemicals. but such mishaps are usually successfully concealed, as the terrorists employ doc tors who belong to their parties Among themselves the revolutionsts are friendly and charitable, and one would think that there was really no cause for the English police to shadow every member of these societies.
 Yet Scotland Yard has special de- partment of detectives whose exclusive work consists in watching these foreign CTS and keeping record of the movements of every man and woman On Friday and Saturday nights, for instance. the clubs are crowded with members. and detec- tives watch at the door, noting every ar rival, and as soon as they discover a new face they spot 1t and follow the man un- til they have found out his address This is not always an easy matter, for shrewd reyolutionist never falls to no tice shadowlng detective.
 On the whole, the foreign revolutionist Is always on fairly good terms with the English detective. and 1t pays him to re- main so. The case is different with the foreign spies, who are In the service of the various embassies and legations. These alien spies have to report to their authorities the secrets of the London or ganizations and any likely demonstra- tion to be made. They often attempt to obtain admission to the secret meetings in all sorts of disguises.
 Woe to the spy who is discovered i1 side club. Last year one of them had penetrated into the Russian club at White chapel. He was spotted" and puSlicty denounced by revolutionist Orders were at once given to lock the dsors, and before the spy knew what 1t &as all about he was set upon by some 20 male and female members and got such beat ing that. after he had been thrown out of the club, he was bleeding and bruised from head to foot
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C NGAGB in a discussion with the E-z average New Yorker upon acts of N heroism and he will at once exclaim: "Heroesl Why man, the real heroes of New York, and in fact of the world. are the men who fight fires in this city. and there is not a man in the department who would not perform some signal act of bravery in which halr-breadth escapes and rescues figure were he called upon to do so. or given the opportunity to volunteer his services for such work. There are not hundred men in the local department who, at one time or another, have not per formed some feat entitling him to a Carnegie medalf'
 The, New Yorker, although the most provincial citizen on earth, since his ideas of the world at large are confined to those interests which alone concern his dearly beloved "New York" is not alone in this opinion, for after all the members of the New York fire department have no equals on earth in their chosen voca- ton, and no body of men are called upon so often to engage in work where life and limbs are so frequently imperied. They are brave, or a foolhardy lot, take your choice, but in any event their very reck- lessness is what counts and brings forth results.
 To become a fireman in New York city requires months of careful training and preparation. It Is a far different pro- cedure from that which has to do with the making of policeman. In the lat ter case the most potent factor Is politi- cal pull. Of course there are certain phy- sical requirements that have to be forth coming, but the big, brawny chap with a fair knowledge of the location of the principal points of interest in New York. a sufficient education to spell 'dog"
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piled the iron. Hubby was in the hos pital for sometime.
 The other day brick fell from chim- ney on quiet street In an Eastern city. The street was nearly mile long, and by actual observation there was only one person on its entire length-a lad of about 10 years. And yet that brick, falling straight as a die, landed squarey on the top of his head and killed him. It was fate.
 Down in the hard coal districts of Pennnsylyania from whence come thrill ing stories at regular intervals, a miner the other day fell down a shaft. He shot through the air for about 30 feet and would have been dashed to hor- rible death but for the fact that his trousers caught on a nail and held. They were old pants, too, and how they stood the strain is a mystery. And talking about miners, everybody remembers Bill Hicks. Bill was entombed under 60 tons of debris for 15 days, and during that time he was kept alive by milk and soup and other liquids which were lowered to him through a waterpipe.
 It Is the little things of life that cause us the most trouble. man in Pitts burg recently fell asleep without remov- ing his false teeth. The plate slipped part way down his throat and choked him to death. Another man, living some- where in York state, crawled under the bed to get collar button. bumped his head in getting out and died from con cussion of the brain 10 days later. farmer out West laid his loaded shotgun on the bed. A hen climbed into the bed to lay an egg. and in perambulating around stepped on the trigger It was the old story. The hen, of course, didn't know 1t was loaded but the gun went off just the same and the discharge set fire to the bed.
 An old negro working near cotton gin In the South had been insured against accident by his kind-hearted employer. One day in some way he caught his foot in the mechanism and 1t was badly crushed. The accident seemed to amuse him greatly, and even while the sur geons were preparing to amputate the injured member he laughed heartily.
 .'Whats the joke, old man?" asked one of the doctors.
 'T done gets i've hundred foh dat foot, Doc" he giggled You all bettah take lem bof of and gets thousand"
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- HE most peculiar accident that ever came to my notice happened to
 commercial traveller in Massachu- setts. He had been out late, and In re- turning to his hotel wandered beyond the town limits, and before he realized it was blowing through stubbly fields in inky darkness. Of sudden he plunged over a bank, and just managed to throw his body around sufficiently to clutch the edge of the earth with his fingers. For hours 1t seemed he hung there. At last he could endure 1t no longer and let go. He dashed down-down about six inches and then stopped. He had been hanging all the time with his feet almost touch ing the ground. In the morning they pulled him out of an unfinished well. He was crying like a baby, and his hair, that had been raven black the night be- fore, was white as snow. In this, as in many other accidents. the funny and the tragic were closely blended. There was an old fellow, for instance, who crawled into an empty spirit hogshead to clean 1t and who was overcome by the fumes. Because of his fondness for alcoholic stimulants his friends said that he died a happy death. And then there was the fat, jolly woman who laughed so hearth ly at joke that she broke her stays. A piece of steel pierced her side and caused death. A broken trolley wire in Buffalo fell into load of hay, and in less time than 1t takes to tell there was merry blaze right in the center of business street. The confiagration called out the members of nearby fire company and q large crowd. Several ice cutters were at work on frozen Lake Erie making an attempt to harvest last crop before the spring breakup occurred when there was loud bang and a sheet of ice quarter of a mile square broke from it's natural moor ings and foated down Niagara River. Three men were carried on this strange vessel rapidly toward the falls, and were going to certain denth when rescued by the crew of steam launch that put out from the American shore. The little dog shown in the arms of the soldier in the accompanying picture was the mascot that went r'ith an American regiment to the PhilippA v He followed the com
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