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Apfopos Our Ere Company.

Apfopos Our Ere Company.
Too much praise cannot be given
Cur volunteer fire company for the
valiant service and splendid protec-
ton which it gives the citizens of
Cambridge. L do not believe that
a better volunteer company can be
found anywhere else. But has not
the time come for Cambridge to pro-
vide better protection against fire
than any endorsed volunteer COM
pany can furnish? Cambridge has
grown much in the recent years, and
is still growing. Surely the time
has come for her to put on some
large ways and act as becomes a
city. 1t is alright for boy to
wear short trousers, and he looks
best in them. but the time comes,
If he be growing boy, when he
must put on long trousers, or look
very much out of dress.
So the time comes to growing
cities, when, in conducting their af-
fairs, they must, SO to speak, put on
long trousers. The boy who tena-
ciously holds on to his mothers APP
ron string wherever she goes, de-
pending upon her to put on his col
lar and tie his tie, by that very con-
duct, no matter how large inbody
he may be, classifies himself as still
a child. The city that tenaciously
holds on to old and inadequate
methods of business because they
seem cheap, classifies itself as be-
longing to the "Cheap John" class.
If you should pass through a
strange town and see hogs and
cows roaming around over the
streets, you need not take time to
look up the census report to find
out what the population of the
town is. You may know that it is
still village of three to five hun
dred inhabitants. If you see only
cows on the streets, you may know
that the population is between 1000
and 1900. Likewise, when strang-
ers find a city, no matter how up
to-date it may be in other things,
depending solely on borseless vol
unteer fire company for protection
against fire, they are certain to
place it somewhere below the first
class.
Cambridge deserves a better clas-
sification than that. She does not
deserve a place in the cellar, even
of the first division, but should
perch somewhere near the top of
the first division. There are three
things that she can do, and ought
to do, that would give her such
percentage in rank:
First, Cambridge ought to have
a good horse, or pair Of good hor-
ses, trained for the business. and
stabbed, all the time, in the engine
room, except when drilling or at
fires.
Second, Cambridge ought to have
a paid fire chief, to stay at the
engine house all the time, except
when out on duty.
Third, Cambridge ought to have
a paid assistant to the chief, to re-
main at the engine house with him.
With horse, or horses, on hand
all the time, and two men on the
spot, the fighting apparatus could
be gotten to the scene of a fire
without delay, and the volunteer
members could go directly to the
scene of the fire, instead of going
to the engine house and having to
drag out the hose wagon. Much time
would thus be gained on the fire.
Under such provision, fully two
thirds, If not five-siNths, of the
damage done in a fire like that
last Sunday morning, could be
avoided 1t certainly would take
but very small tax on the proper
ty of such a city as Cambridge to
make the provisions above named.
l understand that our Board of
Trade has already agitated this
matter of better fire protection for
Cambridge. Surely the time has
come for the Board of Trade, and
every other active, aggressive and
progressive agency in the city, to
get behind the City Fathers with
an irresistible demand for more ade-
quate fire protection. 1t will mean
so much to our beautiful and desir-
able city. Garcon.