The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-22

rererred 70 as the most expeusive
club In the world In NO other
cost Of membership anything APP
preaching the amount required here.
n new Ysrk NED Scared
Gothamites have not lost any sleep
thus far over the dire prediction OF
r. Z. Humphrey, Philadelphia build
Ing export that their city 10 doomed
to undergo q connagration tar more
Devastating than those that swept Bal
timore and san Francisco. Mr.. Hum
phrey, who Is just returning to- this
country after an extensive investiga-
tion of building and fire protection
methods In Europe. bases his cheerful
prophecy upon the tnadeqnacy Of our
present building laws, which permit
the erection Of so-cailed fireproof
buildings which crumple up under o
severe blaze as has been demonstrate
ed In number of cases. notably in tina
Parker Building fire a few years ago.
He has y good word for American
fremen and admits that they are cour-
ageous. but he declares that they are
not properly drilled or equipped to
hght extensive nres. One improve
snept that he advocates Is the general
Introduction of motor Are engines. Mr..
Humphrey does not single out New
York AZ the only American city like
ly to oe wiped out by an overwhel-
ming confiagration. He finds that the
same conditions which exist here pre-
vail In most American cities. He sug-
gests merely that New York will. fur
nish the biggest blaze in the worlds
history because there is more here to
burn, than in any other city so ll-pro-
tected. New Workers.. however. main
tain their confidence In the ability OF
the efty's smoke-eaters to quell arr
kind of q 1re that may occur. TIE
average Manhattanite. is Wiling to
abuse any other municipal Institution
but he promptly resents any imputa-
ton that his fire fighters are not the
best to be found In any OF the worlds
big cities.
while football. Marathon racing
and other more or less violent forms
OF sport are coming in for a heavy
scoring on the ground of frequent Sc
rious injury to the participants, not
even the gentlest and most ladylike
form of athletic exercise Ii being all
lowed to escape the attention of the
yigilant muck-rakers who are ,deyot-
ing their energies to this particular
field. The latest outlet for the enthu-
siasm OF the crowd, to be attacked is
the custom of waving handkerchiefs.
commonly referred to as The Chautau-
qua salute. The basis OF the critf-
cism directed by. hygienic authorities
toward this method nj greeting or
showing appreciation is not the yio-
ience of the exert.on involved or any
danger OF broken heads or limbs. II
is pointed out that when large gath
ering OF people futter their handker-
chiefs In unison vast horde of germs
OF pneumonia. tuberculosis. dlphthe-
ria. and other dire diseases are pretty
certain to be loosed to prey upon
whatever victims they NAV find.
Ingenious devotees OF the accepted
Chautauaua greeting have found
way to circumvent the attack upon
their favorite custom by declaring
that henceforth they will carry tow
handksrchiefs--one freshly laundered
and of guaranteed aseptic qualities.
which they win fiutter when they wish
to give vent to their enthusiasm. and
a separate one for the more ordinary
uses impeiled by colds and similar at
fictions.