The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-04-25
kzETTE SCRIBE ABROAD
: HAS A GLIMPSE OF MODERN
METHODS OF FIRE FIGHTING
IN LARGE CITIES
kCAlls vv|O REcollECT|0Ns
the Days Away Back In the SOS
When Ye Scribe "Ran Wild De
Hand Machine"

Nan Is a creature of habit. This
4 not sprung upon a conflding and
hg suffering public as an original
new discovery. 1t is a fact patent
There are good habits
bad habits, but in the distribu-
q OF comment through that chan
OF communication usually desig-
1ed as gossip people who orally
" upon their neighbors do not, as
tule, devote a great deal of time or
ention to the former kind of habits.
lie the balance of .he human family
)ave the habit weakness, and as an
Aest confession Is said to be good
soul, l must admit that my habits
under the head of the latter kind.
> OF these habits of a deplOrable
Ind is what term two pipe con-
(ntional. That is 10 say, in way of
tlanation, 1t Is a habit of mine to
q walks before breakfast lighting
bipe at the start. and continuing
peregrinations until that pipe is
>sumed, and burning up recharge
hdering back to the starting point.
that means | have pretty thor
Shly prospected within radius Of
by blocks the part of Seattle In
ch | have been residing, and the
ctice gave me text for an item
ch l have tediously approached
this Introductory circumlocutton.
b started out on my nicotine
hble the other morning my atten-
was attracted to an ominous col
d of black smoke ascending heav-
Yard only a few blocks away. 1t
ently indicated the breaking out
large and disastrous fire, yet not
2D0und indicative of anything un-
Gal vexed the quiet Of the early
ening. Now l have an insane and
~ weakness that urges me to chase
n fires. Fires have an absorbing
'faction to me which | have never
"a able to overcome. l have SYM
by for those owning property that
ERASED by flames, and regret that
es must be sustained through the
lium of that destructive element
II a fire occurs anywhere within
ch my innate weakness drags me
E1he scene. 1t can almost be classed
I'M inherited weakness, for the very
" impression indelibly imprinted
n my mind Is that Of seeing
re fire, in very early infancy, and
n old st. Louis volunteer fire de-
|Gtment, with their primative hand
1nes. fighting that fire, accom-
lied with a noise and confusion un-
wn to the present generation
III this is another depression. but
n object Is two-fold, first. providing
d apology for displaying a hayseed
1osity; and second, to &c the
|n1ers faint idea how a large fire
handled in large city divided
- every modern appliance for
Mnding off the red Destroyer
- l started in to say that column
smoke drew me in the .lirect 'on
Exthe fire producing the SNAKE as
lOa,ls,one attracts the nrcdlc. !
not so far lose the dignity be-
bing one of my years as to sprin;
N the street at high steam pes
8, shrieking "fire" at every jump
ough | must admit that | did not
1er en- route, and the pace l lit
would have put champion con-
ant in six days go-as-yor-Dieaie
ling match ON his metal 10 1npll.
There were not half O dozen
pie on the street, and they were
chalantly going along their se,-
ways as Indifferent as though a
of the dimensions of q conflagra-
was an every day occurrance and
ot sufficient Importance to attract
ting attention. Why; within two
Dks OF the fire l saw a man walk
OF his house perfectly oSl,. ious
NE property destruction going on
Dst next door. When he observed
fire he calmly walked back I,
Ny his wife. and she came out on
porch with no more haste or T.
pnt interest than though she had
called to see something OF nc
ticular moment. All of this in
Drence was merely evidence OF
hmiliarity, and knowledge that
n are ways and means provided
meeting such exigences. that 1t is
y duty of the paid -',ISIf}rSSYjS
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