Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 20, 1874, Page 2

oflles at 8:30 ololock sharp this ovening. It{s oarnestly hopod that ovory mombor will attend: E. B, McOagg, Jobn 11, Mubikey ©, G. Hanmiond, 3. MeGrogor Adsms, Adolph Schoenliger, Auguat Taver, John MaOaffory, ¥.‘ ‘1'1':’\\‘:‘1"".:3';.;' Tipt. John };mx;llhvmuf Mallon D, Ugden, Josoph M. b %3 ordon 8, l“l’\nlhha;d, Yaul Andorson, Audrot Nelson, John Metwen, | * Gbarios 3, Sundl, 1, Mubitile Totan o i, A. 0, Hosin, . W, Gatos, Androw I, lBl.mluar, !‘l‘unw ermuhlnm, Edwin ml::;im Tacoh Dotlar, i n-nmnI\:‘ i"T:“fll‘}.:al;: 3 Alig. Jacobon, , I, Bl 2.V, Clarke, " D, dored Dastothy Chins. Heurotin, T,'B, Brown, Gen, J. D, Wetatar, W, D, Kerfoot, Michinel Keely, F. B, Peabody, Bidney Walker, 3.7, McGrath, Jainos Medullon, Johi Duehlor, Jater Sehutler, Q. Hitrach, Tester Button, Dayid Hallinan, ‘01108 LOUATGAD, R, T. Orr 1, I, Miller, Joln Comiskey, W, 11, Ryiar, Witbur ¥, Blorey, - . OFnnc, Carlylo Masion, R, P, Der{okson, Frak D, Toboy. @, J, mull, William Lross, Oarl 3. F.'Junge, ¥, W. Paimot, §, 8. Tinyes, 0. L. Wilkon, Gapt. 0. G. Lange, 2faj, W, M, Taglor, JudgoJogar, Tarwatl, \ Mogre, ‘Thomans Hoyne, 0. 1L, McCormick, Yolter Palmor, I, Bbufoldt, Job Tyerelly Tanis Cella, Murry Nolsoh, Clsrlea ., bavis, Jdolin 1, Draks, Geo, O, Clark , M, Hondarson, 1, G, Caulfteld, W, G, Hibbard, Conraq Belpp, Orrington Tk, B, Lowenthal Jamen Uough, Julius Boaenthal, villlam Liair, 1, A. Ko, J. 11, MoVicker, Teter Wolf, Dr, 0, V. Dyer, Clarlos Wirth, Franklin MaoVesgh, ¥, Mubla, i, W. Larvey, Clrfatisn’ Wald, AL F. Booborger, —_—— RELIEF AND AID SOOIETY. Conference with the Unltod Ilebrow Rellof Ansoclution. : Mt 0. G. Trusdoll, the Buperintondent of tho Chicago Reliof and Aid Bocioty, hold a confor- snco with the offlcors of tho United Hobrow Tte- tiet Association at 12 o'clock yesterday, for the purpogo of conferring with them in regard to the boat manner of alding tho burnt-out He- brois of thiscity, Thoro wore prosont Mrs, Obarles Koziningki, Julius Roaenthal, Nelaon Morrlg, and Mr. Kins, Suporiutoudont of tho United Tobrew Heliof Association. Mr. Trus- dell maid be bad ssked for this conforunce to fearn, for tho interest of the public as woll ag for thomselves, ne to tho numbor of burnt-out Hobrows, both Gorman aud Polish. Mr. Rosonthal repliod that tho_total number wns about 300 families. They had thus far in- vestigated nbont 200 applications, abont 150 of which they had found to bo worthy, while tho sthers woro rejooted as unworthy, s Mr. Nolson Morris thought thoro woro a num- bor of families who wero rathor roluctant to ask for rolief, and they would nof do so until diro aecessity compelled them. Mr. Lrusdoell was of the opinion that the timo bad arrived whon viaitors should bo mont out to sxamino into the cases that prescuted thow- solves for relicf, In tho cado of the Hebrows, ho thought {t would bo best to contlnno to refor them to the United Hobrow Relief Association to be oxamined by thom, aa by this arrangemont cougiderablo timo aud oxponse would be saved to tho Relief Society. Nelson Morris hopod none would bo assisted nnless recommeondod by the Association, Thoy took great pains to find out whethor the appli- canta woro worthy of rolief. The oflicors of tho Hobrow Rolief Association lLad given thom- solves no rost sinco the fire, working assiduous- 1y to have nono but wonhg enges nssinted. Ar. Trusdoll wna perfoctly matisfod that the Association would do what ‘was ‘right and just, sud ho would therefore gontinue to send all ap- plicanta to them. Mr. Trusdod alsostated that . thus far no visiting had boen done ot all, but to- doy ho would put on ten visitors, and roquire them to mako ten visits & day. Thot wasail a man could do. Mr. Morris, In reply to o question of Mr. Truadell's, said that many of thoss epplying for assistance wero insured, but it taok some time befora thoy gould get thoir insurance, and until then thoy needed somo aseisianco, to haye somo- thing to live upon. Alr, Trusdell then stated that vouchers would be mudo out immediately for the approved ap- plications, and paid out this morning. A similar conferonca was to have taken place with Mr. John Jonos and tha three colored min- iuters in tho olty, at 2 o'clock, to ascorlain what moasures were nocossary to give the proper ro- lief to tho oolored paopls, But nelther Mr. Joues vor any of the ministors made thoir ap- penrance, and therefore no actlon in regard to this mattor could bo taken. Ar. Truedoll stated that he was fivat told that thero wezo not over 300 colorad families burned out,nnd ho had already passed upou mare thau 500 cases, Ilo therefore requested the nbavo- nanied gentlemon to moet him ot his office, as ho thougbt Lo could find out from them how many colored people were actually in distress. e INSURANCE IN ILLINOIS. Risksy Ireulums, and Lexses of Compnuios Doing Business In thiy State. The Journal of Comywrce has compiled the (ollowing interesting table, ehowing the Illinois business of all insurance companios during the yesr 1873, It embracos every eity, town, vi- tago, or Jocality in tho State: Businesn fu linole during Name and Incation of Com) PR Gl ) wpung. Fre rivia Treniumu Loswer wrilien vea'd dur- incur'd duriugyr. "ing pear” dicrin in T, in ,ll. rr.(ul . Aduiatig Kow York T tiia, Now Yo et 2ttua, Hertdord. 27,477, Y A Las. Chooago. ‘Aricultucat Wateriown, §. ¥ 11,6550 Alpwanaia, Bleveland FATIRES 5, Allomannis, Pittab 3408103 1 a3, Amazon, Clnclnnat 35,149 20t Wy 2ns O,m (7 - fonih 17168 LT Amorloan Firo, Philadolphis SEGTT B8 Amorioan Mat., Newstk,Nod, BILBY hHIT York, et Atinails & Padle, Cions il Atlantio 'aq| loa s L3 Atlantis Brookizh, Ne ¥ ien Atlss, Hartiard, i) Aurors ¥, & M, 5 ] Now Yo o 00, !‘\\T‘:f York, Sommorco, Alba Commerctty bi. Lot Oom'l Unjon, lLoudon, Datrolt 1. 4, Dolry Dvellingifous itanl, Drovid Able, Providonoe, sitablo, Nashvile, mi" ) Mn,xic u:fi s an cohanley', Hum . inors! Bitna Yorke Pace 1, wers', ¥raon 'NLEG saving rrcagat, Nuw York,,. 00 7iay ieh FiroAraqolation, Philadolphila 4,976,918 g8 Yirowen's tfund, Sun Fraa. clsco... o 99,728 Tiromou's Fnd, New [} Iiromeu's, Daytan, 0. 2,577 Frank] adolphi 243 14,840 o, Patindoly Franklin, Whoolinis, W, Frankiin, Iadisnapolls,’ 1 Franklin, Bostan, Mas Fraukila, 51, Lots, M 8,453,431 artfond, 9,100, Hofluii, Now Yo RN Homo, Columbus, O o ilome, Qalvesto; Tomu, Ko Yol owaid, Now Vu el oman: Tus, U ) i ahari Mantea, i) Maoh, & i Blercantily, (: il 10,818 A X W] il A o G W B e Mo p ol s a (Xl Dia e asetora T Naifund) 200, b4 Natlona 1,080,307 Jn E & i AR SR o - plicenti, itaritord 2, Brittsh & Mer, Livornagl, 805 Wirer’ Phlladolrol "heenton, N owarl, el People Beoboe Phonix, I IAntar', Menii linkis i brotunit st LUEH 1,046 'rovl ca Trovidunoe, 1t 1 a0 woon. Landan 4,2, lu7 esiig, Toudis: i conhile, otk tord; Rooklord. ugor w{m-m‘ Providencas G, Baverp t, h e o t, Ni X t, P 14,861, 453 Gt 2,33/881 1,070,840 aw’ It fi%g ;&f:'égf:;lhghlhdvlnhu wu‘l:-;:“an;'x Gy, "Browiiya > . 140 compantos, Totale.. 847,625,853 4,813,809 923,674 oy CORRIESPONDENOE. SBuggestions for tho Prevention of Fatnre Cone fingrations. B, DIRD'S BYNTEML To the Editor of T'he Chieago T'ribun Bin: If you add to your editorial of this morning: *“Every Man His Own Firoman,” suother proposition, viz.: *In a firo, timo is evarything,” you have the first princlples of stopping fires, Extonded firo limits, roorganization of the Departmont, and & considerable Inorcaso in its machivery, ara vital necossitiel Equally important {s tho adoption of some bottor menus for roaching and attacking fires when they are vory small,—of fighting them instantly on discovery. ‘Tha inoiplont fire which ® fow palls of wator would extinguish it spplied within one, kwo, or four minutes of ite discov- ery, growa in ten or fifteon minutes (tho timo required for® glving an alarm and gotting a stoamor: at work) to & ‘sizo whoro a thousand times tho quautity of water 18 nceded, and whore the loss beoomes thousands or millions, 1t in cortain thot tho groat woodsn districta of tho Wost and North Divisions cannot be con- verted into brick for many years. It is u:}unl)y cortain that tho groat danger of general con- flni(ntlonn lies in these diatricts, and particular. ly In the Weat Division, 17 tho Inhabitants of Chicago, rich and poor slike, and womon ns well as men, will awaks to the imminenas of tho dmfir, and tRKo a person- al and immedlato interost in preoautions against fire, and in apparatua for oxtinguishing fires in their yery boginning, thelr danger will be greatly dimintshad; but if not, Tdo not believe that a forco of throo timas our present stoam firo ongines esn provent s recarronce of provious disasters. J Joneph Bird's syntem of emall engines, which iamore appiicable to Chitago, aud espooially tho districts already referred to, than to any oity in America, aund which, in tho writor's opinion, ought to recelve hore & prompt and thoromgh trinl, is a8 follows: Thera mhall bo placed fn all buildings, which from thelr great dimonsiona, or from the danger of taking fire of their contents, or for the aafety of thoso employed in them, or for the safoty of those who may be called tuare for instructlon, Lusiness, or pleasure, such as cliurches, schools, thoatres, hospitals, hotals, Btables, atoros in which aro sold bay, straw, woodentware, furniture, distilled spirits, and fn overy other store or manufactory which' mny be doented necossary for the protection of tho oity from fire, ono small engine, threo buckels, and one fire-ax, togother with & card of dlmndonn. a8 follows: WITAT 70 DO TX GATE OF FIRE, If therels s fira on theso promlscs, the men or ‘womien appolnted for that purposs will instantly take the engine and play upon the fire the water pluced for thom by oflier poréona in the building, A fow utes of cool, earncst, and wall-directod ‘work may saye your bullding from deatruction, or preserve Hfe, and poselbly prevent a & fire, N, B.—Every person {n the bullding should keop coal, and aid thosu engaged in putting out tha fire, or lse koep entiraly out of ihelr way. s Fire-Marshal, ‘The oxponse of tho apparatus shall be assossod “Ynn the ownar or occupants.of the building. Thero shall also be piaced, at the exponss of the city ths same apparatus (one engine, ax, end threo buckots) in the dwollings, workshops, or Btoros of such places as tho polics report ocou- pled by relinble men to such an extent that an cngine shall ba within ono minute's distance of :vnry'thuuthug in the thickly-acitled portion of e city, Tho onginea ghall be kopt a8 noar re possible in the same place in oach buiidiug. Over the door of every building where an engine is kept a plllla. zuh tho words Firo Departmont, shall 0 place A card with the following divcotions, shall bs lung near each engine: FINE DEPARTMINT, ’ ‘When eslled to 8 fira take or send the engine {nstan| 1y toit and play tbe water already thers upon the fire, Rtecollert that the earuost and woll directed work of a fow minutes may esve your building or prevent s great fire, When you bove dove workduy the engine, Gleat and hanglt up, ready for anotbior sase. 184t by uot In order, report to the police, Firo-Marshal Thbore shall bo placed fn every house, shop, or ulo‘rlu ‘whero there is not an engine tho following card: g FINE DEPARTMENT, ItNy ur bullding {s on fire send for th l engines at No. street, and No. street; Al yonr tul and palls with waler, and take them near the fire ta be rendy for use, Bend alio the alarm o thio nsazeat telegraph box, For six months or more, every store, work- shop, oflive and hotol, and many other buildings in New York hinve contained a Jarge and plainly- printed eard, informing ocoupania whore the nearost telograph-box and key could be found. Theae cards, I found on inquiry, were placed thore by tho New York Fire Depertment. This plan should be carried out in Chicago without delay, and might vory properly ba oxtonded so na to include every residouce as well as other buildings, . Da not move your furniture, as the fire will beont in u few minutes. Keep this card hung up whers it will be scen, and call tho attention of th fnmates to it, -y Fire-Alurshul, Tha * ongines” reforrod to by Mr, Bird aro small portable force-pumpa, 80 mado as to draft water from a pall, or any other vessel, and throw a small siroam with much forco. Of those thora are at Jeast four reliablo and eficient machinea made by different manufacturors, sad they woigh from fiva to ten pounds, The one kopt at the writor's house for the past two yoars s mado of brass, very simpla and durable, wolghs 8 pounds, throws s stream 1 inch in dlameter 50 foot horizontally, 85 to 40 foet high, and antiroly over a stablo 20 feob wido ‘and 35 feot l.\hil\, and cost $12, Patented chomical oxtingulshers aro valuablo for lnxge establishments whora intellizent bands aro always familiar with the metbods of charging aud using thom (although Itls a groat mistake to supposo that & given quantity of theiwr chomical compounds will accomplish mora in putting out firo than the eama quantity of water) ; but, for uge by the multituds, the portable pumps are [u- finltoly bottor, bocauso every sorvaut and child instantly scos and undorstauds using thom ; bo- causo, altogethor, less Uable to get out of order, and uuge thelr cost Is but ono-fifth or one- sixth the cost of extiuguishora. < Tor this experiment, if Jt may bo ealled an ex- perimont, I would take fifty contignous blocks in the most thickly-sattlod portions of the South 8ido, a liko numbor on tho North, and 100 blocks in tho West Division, In onch of these blocks placo four enginos h ax and buckot, two mon, or more if re- quired, to be appointed to look after this branch of tho TFira Dopurtmont, making vory frequent examinations, and sccing tust overy engine, bucket, and sx {s kept in its piaco and in ordor. I'ho ontire cost of this wholo apparatus placed in paeition (800 pumps, 2,400 Luckets, and 800 axes, with incidontals) would not oxceed $12,000 or 814,000 ; meintalning the samo for n yoar, in- cluding ealatics, ote., $4,000 to 85,000, Twelve months' trial will* domobutrato its_value orita worthlessnoes, If {6 proves valuable aud offi- clent, us fully ballevod it will, tio systom can be extended widoly, Let this oxperiment (if it ¢can bo opjled an ex- periment) be mada as early as posalblo, If the city authoritles will not undortake it, private subkcription oau. In that case tho writer will choerfully beone of forty subseribors to DAY §500 onch towards the work, I, W, II. icdo, July 18, 1674, THE FUTUIIE OF ORIOAGO. To the Lditor of T'ke Chicago Tribune: Bin: Tho Iatedire, sevoro nnd crusl ae it was to tho suftorory, will be a publio bloasiug, If 1ts tosnchings lead to roforme absolutely rssantial to tho prospatity of our city, h. nestion is pressing for settlemont whathor Ohiuago is to bo only a place to make money in, & placa of com- mercound trado, a great lumber, beof, pork, and gvain depot, and from whioh peopla will floo the momont thelr fortunen aro made pnd they have luisure to book enjoyment snd oulture, or whethe -er It shall o mado attractlve, beautiful, and homalike, ! Olifoago can be mado ono of the morb attraots tvo oftica In tha world. It s, iu mauy rospoots— wo may as Well rocognizo and ook tho truth squarely jn tho face—ono of tho least attract- ivo, nay, In_some respeots, ono of tho most ro- puliive, -What are ite advantages 2- -~ - - S First—It ml]o"l! tho comfort—nay, tho .Inx- ury—of an unlimitod supply of the purest: sud bost wator of any ofty iu tho world, Second—Situntod on the shoro of Tinko Miohi=" gon, it bud in this an elomens of hoatty lioalth, and enjoyment not surpassod, if aqualed, . Third—0ur parks, publia grounds, and drives aro soarcoly oqualod by those of any oity of its age, and they aro oapable of helng mado 85 at-~ traotive and more so—gs thoy have the grand foa- ture of tho Lake—thnn those of London, Paris, or Now York, . Fourth—-Qur Troa Library will, in a short time, if mon of culturo and tasto ars not driven out of the city by the nuisancos whioh are talor- ated, make Ohioago a groat literary centro, But all these advantages, and others' which I hnve not spaco to enumerate, ars mare than nottrals ized Ly tho intolorablo nuisancos whioh sure round us. 1 enmnerato somo of them. Firat—Bad alr, Wa ought to heve the pnrast alr of any oity in tho world, aud I know of nons Where it s o vile and offonsive. 1t the wind blows fram the soutl, we have Dridgeport and its surroundings. If from the wost and morthe wost, we Liavo tha North Branoh, with its watora biaok and putrid with fllth, apor-mills, glno- Inctories, ~ slaughter-houscs, distilleries, and evary vile and offonsive manufaoture are sonte: tored about the city, 8o that nearly ovory wind that blows, unlossit comos dircotly off.tha Inke, is lnllldnd with nauscating and disosse-promoting smolla. . Seoond—The eonsumption of soft conl in such eatablishments na the rolling.mills and graat. mauufacturing estoblishments . has rondered portions of tho ity . unine habitablo to all who oan exercise tho priviloge of cholce, ‘Thers sro peotions in which you can scarcoly sos tho sun at midday for the smoke. 'T'he result ia, tho alr is #o pois- eucd you cannot any longor grow evergreous in tho aity, Fifteen yesrs ago evergraeus grow Jux- uriantly all over the oity, and ospecially on tho North and West Bides, 'Tho old citizens will ro- mombar the magnificent arbor vitm hedgoes, and pines, aud Norway apriucos of Dr, Egan and othors, You cannot find any such in the ity to-day, What must bo the effeat on human lifo, of constantly broathiug an atmosphere in whioh a treo will sicken and dioe iu two years? Third—Tho tug nuisance, wanton and uttorly nnueconsary, Although it may not destroy lifo, yot it cortainly murdots sleep and pence. ‘Thore sooms tobe a rivalry mmong tho hundrods of tugs and yropellors whioh run through the very hoart of the city, to sce which shall make tho loudoat and most hideons noises, Fourth—The .oxtrema poril from firo nesa driven, and is driving, many of our best citizons ont of tho city, It s idle to shut our eyes to the fact thot we live in inyminent dangor of fires equel in oxtent to that which destroyod the North Side snd tho businesg-portion of the Bouth 8ide in 1871, No Fire-Departmont can make any rosistence to & fire like that. A dry time, » Bouthiwost wind, a start in the wooden bulldings which extend for miles on tho Woat Bide,~and you will have a fire which will msko homeloss & greater number of familics than tho great fire, Tho samo danger oxists vver a less oxtunt of area weat of Wells etreot, and bo- tween it aud tho North Brauch, in North Ohica~ £0. With such liability to such fearful fires, no man's howo fa eafe in any part of the city, ‘Thase nre truths, which are realized by thinke fog men, and tho rosults aro patent. Tho nuieuncos to whioh I have roferrad, and tho dougor from fire, have driven many of our clti- zous to sock homoa abroad, and proveuted very many othors from rnhullflmg sinco the Grent Fire. I will montions few jnstances smoug many. Our oldor citizons will remember the fina residonces formorly Docu[riml l}! Judgo Hugh T, Dickey, BIr, Farvum, and Mr. Ely, on tho South Bido, * Da tiio North Sido woro the _mngailloout recidences of W. B, Ogdon, H, II. Mageo, Mrs. Nowberry, Judge Bkinuner, Sturgess, Ducking- ham, MeCormick, and mouy othors. Sowe of thero gentlomen hinve loft the city forever, somo aro living iu fire-prool hatels lika the Palmor House, and many havo sought homesat Blmburst, at Genova Lake, at Ilvauaton, and ot all the sur- rounding villages, Many of thom are walting tho action of the_city atthorities in regard to the nuitances I have named, and in rogard to the dangors from’ fires, aud thoy will roturn nnd rebulld their homes, or abaudon thom, as the ¢ity authorities shall sct. I tucroforo say that this is & esitical time In the history of Chicago, and its futuro will do- pond Javgely on the action which shull now be nd. If nothlog is dyno to romedy aud provent the ovila L have montionod, we shall loso mony of our bunt citlzets, aud Chicago will bocome more and more s place of businoss meroly, & placo to make monoy in, but thoso who have it or shall acquire it will go clsewhere o oxpond it ; cliowhero to find Lomoy whoro pure air can boe broathed ; whora health can bo onjoyed ; where thoy can go to eleop without approbension of Lolug burned out befare morn- ing, I could uamo a dozon of our old citizovs on tho Norili Side, who hayve not yot rebullt their homes, who are awaltiug thoactionof the suthor- itloa, I trust tho lossons of the late fira will uot be lost. Yowrs, &c., Isarc N. Anxorn. To (he Editor of Yhe Chicago Tribune: Bir: Tnviow of the fuct that thenoxt * big firo™ whioh wo a1l oxpsot may come ta-day, to- murrow, or auy day, bofora wo ara roady for it, it snoms to' mo important to bond all our enor- g1es to seouro at onco thoso proparations for our dreadod enemy which we can socure now, A multituda of plans and suggoestions have been Joid bafore the public by the press, the: undorwriters, and the sposkors at the publico meoctinvgs, On ono thing all agroo; tha} is, wo must lhave no more frame buildings, barns, or shods, built inside tho city limita. Any plan to onlarge *‘tho fire limits " must fuil of offoct, asean be ensily demon- stratod by looking at the district betweoen Six- teouth streot (where tho ‘‘limits™ woro made inour prosont ordinauco on-the subject) and Twenty-socond sroct ; & solid mass of frame Luildivgs has been built botween those streots in the past two yoars, which now affords good food for fire from the plauing-mills and lumbor dis- triot to foed on and reach the balance of the city, We want no ‘“limits *' but the city limits, But in getting a total and entire utoppags of thoso dangarous neighbors, frame buildings, we need nomutl.\lu% more than the provision that they shall ot bo erocted; we need a clear and dlstinet ‘frovhsinu in thoordinance (which should bo called o bwlding-law) that no person should bo Eormmnd to orect any kind of s building, brick, atona, iron, ar aoucrete, without firet do- positing with tho Board of Public Works comn- Ploto plaus and spocifications of what they pro- posa to build; tuut the written consent of ull three mewmbers of the Board be obtainod to the enid plans, with such changes o the Doard mny deom the eafoly of con- tignous buildings or the city shall roguiro, 0 pormit to build or to alter any building ehould bo granted until those Jflunn aud speolfls catioos are flled and depositod with said 1soard, Tor each division of tho city shonld bo pro- vidod & DBuilding Inspostor, Each Inspootor should bo a compotont architect, sworn to_obey tho law, lablo to hmwodinte indlotmont and im- Erlsoumeunur fullure to rigidly inspect each nilding in process of eroction or altoration in the division ha las .charga of, at lonst onco & wonk, aud gs ‘much oftonor as possiblo, sud sco that the plans sud spacifioations are followed, Ilo shonld be mountad Lo got around with facillty, Ho shonld sflolu offica af tho Police Hondquartors in hia vision, Every policoman (policemen lopg for some- thing to occupy tholr minds while on duty) shouid watch for now Lulldings or for altora= tlons, aud have tho right to demand of the por- sous eugaged in tho work aa oxhibip of their permit for tho same, should make and canse to be delivored daily to the Inspscior a detailod re. port of each and u\‘or'\‘r1 huilding commonood or being alterod on his boat, with prog- rous made on the eumo, Any vielution of any part of the ordinanco shoulll 8ubjoct the ownor of the bulldi:;: aud the Luildor of the wame oach to & flus of not less thau §350 ar im- prisonwment, or both. In Bt. Louls, wheta po frame buildings have boan bullt uinco thele groat fire of 1849, the fine ia §500, and the offendor is procooded ugaingt by tha City Attorney in the Yolico Court. Yiolations of our presont ordinauge are con- staut § for {ustanco, intho rear of 72 and 74 Wurren uvenus lulfiurgu frame barn, not Jess than 10 by 40 on the grotnd, ull olosed w, It way ot be ovar 13 foot high, but it i & ylolustion of the ordinauce, and |t bag bosn built whbin tho paet twolve mouths,—and a8 ncrogs the ulley from this burn is & largo frame Uvory-stable coutnin- iug hisy, oto,, it i8 & dangorous “violation, Now, 1 Ha not gupposo the ownar of this bam gota permit to Lilkd anythivg more than an opon shed,—gueliuy the ordiusnco pormits,--but,ss tho ordluanco does nat roquira plana and speciflen- tious to bo flled, how are tho Lourd of Tublig Woulis to knaw just what tho party applying for & _pormit intends (o bulld,” “au whoee Dusluesy it to soo {hat s it nul{]uueh [3 bulh!luiv Inerectod as wandescribad to theDoard of Public Warka, And il wasany one's csshow could thoy know what was dodcribad -|-are frequent, and punishable by-law. MONDAY, JU ' to the Noard, and low conld ¢tho Doard tell what “wan deacribod to thom unlesa plana aud spaeitle oations wore filod, to ba roforred to? Wa have, I nm awaro, sovoral mon who ara ‘ealled firo-wardons, but I.havo never hoard of thelr inding nshos” In woodon boxes or barrals, Dbad atovopipes, ete., while I know auch thinga Nor have I .over. honrd of sjuglo, . conyletion snd. punishmont for. violaiing' .tho - pros. ont firo ordinance™ by tho orpotion of woodon buildiugs or barng. If thora had boen any, thoy are fow. : Now, my aimn in this thing {ato ondoavor to bring up the diflonltion 80 thnt somothing praoticablo and eapablo of an. {forosment in the way of a bullding Isw should bo passed by the Counoil. 3 It has been, I think, olearly shown that wo eannot-got those broad avonuos which aro oor- taluly so doalrable, Wo can fint a building law, and we muat havo it mevero and Liava it enforcod, Wo cannot abolish the Board of Fira and Polico Commissioners until the Legislature mesls any~ way. Wo can geb more ongines; wo can got largor .wator-plpes, but it will take me, and a8 wo know wo aro liablo to o want to. bo aure and push thoso thinga wa can got now. We can havo a corpsof sappora and minets drillod and trained. Eaoh ward can organizs rubbor-buoket vompae nies of 100 mep, with Oaptains, each man to furnish his own rubber bucket,’and small hand forca-pump, or ** hydropult,” to throw water on sporkd on roofs. This {5 the “Bird ™ systom, sudis the ona common in small woodon ‘towns whora thoy have no firc department. A fow of those companies wonld have boen of iminonsa sseistanco in tho Imst big fire, and will bo in the noxt ono, Thoy would alsa bo of sorvice in a firo which might broak ount on the North Bida while tho whols Fire Dapartmont wors at work on the South Side at a *big firo,” We bave got to be ready to fight fira, and ovory man ‘must put himsolf in'a position to halp, The way our city I8 bullt tho stoam Fire Department ays- tom i8 not oapable of coping with firo, as wa eaw ir;’ loaqll‘obur, 1871, Boptomber, 1873, and July On the bucket company polnt, organization enu accomplish somathing ; without it, we are liko a flock of shsop. “TmnTEENTIC WARD, Ouioano, July 10, 1874 FONTATLE FIRE WALLS, To the Editor of The Chécago Tribune: Bin: It s oloar that our cityls ina moat unsatisfactory condition touching our exposure to awooping conflagrations, Our memory of past losses is not more oppressive than is our {foar of coming disnator. Our journals aroe full of supgestions, many wise and timely, and many wholly impracticablo. If a tenth of tho plans aro carried ont which are proposed, onr taxes would bocome unondurablo, And although so many of thom aro scif-ovident nocessitics, it ia doubtful, if taken all togother, thoy would save us in ono of those terrific emergencics, when a long droughth, & high wind, combustible build« Inga, and o well-started firo aro combined, Wo have acros of woodou bulldings in our clty, and shall havo thom for years to como. They lia to the southwest ‘of the city's morcantile centro, strotchod out for miles. And although wo can provont tho oroction of more, wo can't romove what wa havo, Ovor thom sweop our southwest winds,—Ifitty times in o yoar wo experience thesa hot gales, No fire do- prrtment on carth can control such a conflagra- tion as wo aro liable to have anyday. Wo all feol tho prossura of this danger, and we aro fast getting so that *' fire boll ™ startles us like the oxplosion of on enemy's shell, Our eitizens cannot staud this dopressing sonse of insccurity, andmust bo rolieved, Rich and poor alike do- mond rellof, What ahall wo do about it ? Others have sub- mitted their plans, and I am ready to bear my share of the oxponso of carrying out such as wa neod. But pormit me to indicato a device which, taken with tho others, will probably Loreaftor sayo us from sweoping conflagrations. I shall not dwoll upon dotatls, although I have wrought them out, sinco our *‘grear fire," with muah practical care. What wo need, in sddition to our othor firo apparatus, is a portablo firo wall, This wall must bo ensily tranaported to the polnt of exposure, readily erectod and thoroughly oflelont when place, 'Lhe value of guch a wall §a beyond estimato, aud its. cout comparatively light. Bhoots of iron, stiffencd with iros framo backe, abont 6 foot wide by 20 long, are hinged togother at their sides in such a manncr that thoy will fold right andloft and make s com- pact load, such pa would rido enugly upon ao iron wagon like those macd for hooka and, lnddors. Nino of theso sbeots so joined would form an iron curtatn, whon ex- tonded, 20 feot wido by 60 foot bigh. Whan needed, say among our high buildings, soveral teuiny, each with such s eurtain, would drive rapidly to tho point of expogure, and draw up in front, not of tho bullding buruing, but of the one axposod. Two of tho mon in ohargo would go to tho top of tho bullding, and throw down thio ond of o rope, aud draw up and put in placa two Looks, like a paiutor's roof-hook, lolding tackle blocks, through whichk would run wire ropes coming from similap blocks below; the lower blocks would thon bo attached to the ‘upper side of tho curtaln, and the two horses would be onoufl‘n to_raiso the ourtain in front of thebulldings, If moro than 50 feet in height are required, a second enrtain could be hooked to tho Lottom of the first, Iy tho side of the first others overlapping could be raised uatil the exposed front was covorod. Tho whole could bo braged and gauged. Bohind this enr- tain, soparated from it by & wide air smco, the building would staud securely whila the oppo-~ site side of the strost or alloy burned down ; and it would not be even defsced or blackened, or havo its glass cracked ; nor would the firamen in knophlglh cool broak tha windows and doluge the goods within, To usge this fire-wall among lower bulldlng{)u, lumber-yards, mills, &c., un apparatus shculd hs furnished ospable of bLolding it at the required boight, I prefer a tripod coestructed of gae. pipe. This would bo light to unmlxoxt. wud oroot, aud yot, if will aprend at the bottom, and firmly gauged, it would stand tho elrain de- mauded. I will not occupy your space by dwolling upon detuils, But if my suggestions soem worth attention, I shall be glad to expinin them at longth, I am confident that with such a pnrtnb{a fire-wull firos may nlwaya be contined to tho spot whers they begin; “and if, unfor~ tunately, they extend further, this wall wall en- nble tho Fire Department to make a suocessful staud at any point selocted. A MANUFAGTURER, Onicaqo, July 19, 1874, TMFROVING THE EXPIOLENGY OF THE FILE DEPART- MENT. e To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune Sm: Buggostions for tho Iucrense of the efiloiency of the Fire Department being in order, I bog loave to offor such as.ocour to me. To an obsorvor at the firo ono of the most noticeable facts wes tho vory rarc instances in which any porsonal effort on the part of proporty-holders way made to gave tholr buildings, In former ‘dnys, when houses were in danger, wo were wont to sos them coversd with blankets, car- pots, oto,, and dozons of mon busily engaged in wettiug these down. Now, If T mistake not, the order is to insure, and tho praatice js to “Let ‘om burn,” I am entirely satisfled that soveral Lundred thousands of dollars would have been saved Tuesday Inat had the citizons fought firo with palls as they yot do in villages, As the avorsge citizon will no Jonger do this, the Firo Dopartment should contain skirmishors who would sccomplish this work of proven- tion, As s monne, I euggest a form of englno which might stand to the 1est, in amilitary view, a8 flylug arbillory, pemoly: A nume ber of small horse-power - onglnos, They should be &0 coustructed that in & momerit tho horsaes could be romoved from the tonguo, and bo hitchod to tho power, Houonth the power, betwoen tha whools, should bo & supply box capable of holding soveral hogs- hoads of water, provided with an arrangement by which a chomical conld be sdded to be mixed with it, Thlg engluo, which would tun {o the fire ompty, shonld be sccompaniod with a tondor luthe shape of & hose-carriago and chewlepl wagon united, by ‘I'he ongina locates noar ttie houae throatoned, tho water being lod to Jt from the neavest Liy- draut by hose. Thie hose from tha engine boln, 10d to the roof, or othor suitable pofut, all flre or axporgd spota are dronched with tha chomical solutlon, The ebject of tho box is two-fold,— to contaln & supply while connootion with a Ly- drant is bolog ohnui;od. aud to ouable tho addls tlon of tho pliomlcal to the wator, Ot all chowi- cals capablo of haing added to watar, nono la so npl"fluxz)le for the purposo biore indicatod as com- won galt, It proporty of puttivg out five is woll known, According to the exporlments of & French chomlat, wator saturated with it is four times as potont s au oxtingalshor as plan water. I never saw but one building whioh refused to Lo burnod. Astoulshied “at the pogitive reslstance to fire oftered by thly hiouse, Ltook qecasion to look mup the ownorof the A wlmpuny, uuil to lnqulze l&mmmt r(i-lfcu:nutluw - tho apparent non-combys ¥ of his shop was +due, " e said bafors the fire roschod it ho had saitjrated tho oxposed parts with ealt. At the firo at whioh this obsarvation was mado, wn old paint-sliop was eaved by puttlng. two barrols of Balé upon 1ts roof,'whon, as I llrml{ ba)icye, tha roal dangor of Lurning was fon timos greator than In many cnsoa in which the *lot hor burn " polioy was succossfully adopted ab tho rocont firo Liere, 5 In the Scient{flo American yenr or moro ngo a hotso~power was flgurod {lmt sulted to the purposcs horo suggosted, With tho view of nnvln% wator, the hose should Lo provided with ono of thouo nozales onpabla of_boing instantly ehangod from lnrgo fo small. I would Buggent In this connoction’ that & body of sappora and minors could not rromptly and aafoly work without tha aid of militia to ‘olear the stroots of tho hordo of fdlors who crowd upon and bindor warkors at afire, . In tho new orgaulzhlions fourthalnrm should sdmmon thoss, s Ono of the. grost difloulties in menaging s five’ In & high buildlng is the vory inoffeotunl way in which a stronm entors the uppor windows, No con- vouiout meaus _has yot baon devised by which a stronm enn bo dircoted in tho uppor floara as dos sired, 'Tho fire escapes goom ofton to bo ime racticabla for sudl a. purposo. I auggast tho ollowing plan: TUpon n suitablo ‘earringo catry alight mast arrapged in_ scotions, 8o au to be eapable of boing promptly raisod in front of a burning building, At the bass of tho pole apipo dirocted mpward and provided with adjustmont serowa connects with alino of hoso, At tho top of tho mast in & second flpn -bont at a right suglo, and atits baso widoly flared out like funncl. The funnol moulh” points downward, tho nozzls horizontally, but those diroctions may be moditied at witl by light wire ropas load- ing to the eartiage. The uppor nozzlo may ho moved from side to side by revolving it attach- mont totho uppor end of the pole. Nowa powerful atroam of wator emorging from tho nozzle on tho plattorm, boing acourately diraot- od by moaus of the adfusting scrawe, will strike {uto” the fuunol mouth of tho uppor pipo, and being deflocted by tho walls of this, will got out of the up[mr nozzlo horizontally, ‘and may be thus directod into the highest windows, Lot no ono condomu this plan till ho has tried it, If ono skoptical of its practicability will put it to tho teat ho will be astonished at the valumo and force of stroam ejccted horizontally, and at tho rolativoly small amount of wasto in tho de~ floction. ‘Whilo thts plan hae its diffeultios and disadvantagen, it Las its advantages also, Ono of thaee is, that, without danger to Jife, t can Le moved near to and about a building, and it can bo rotained in position till the lass momont with no othor rek than the losa of thoapparatus, Aluch complaint has been made of the Firo Marshal. No one could have J)ropnrly ‘managed buch a firo with the thon mode of management, A Tiro Marsbal should bo mounted, accompanied Ly mounted aids, Ilo should take position on momo roof nommlnfl[nig & view of tEo fire, and communicate with bis alds bolow, by means of a rubber hoso used as & spoaking-tube. His ordors should bo writton aud delivered throngh the tubo encased In a hollow globe of metal mado for the p e, such' o posi- tion ho could ‘surronnd himsolf with such ndvisers as ho might choote, and not the loast sdvantage of the plan would bo that ho would not be hounded to do this aud that by Enrtius wwhose-zenl on such oocasions is greator thav their knowlodge. Finally, tho stosm fire-eugines shonld be su) plomented by fire-boats. Such n boat should E; of light draught, of great power, capable of making twenty milos an hour, and firo-proof, complotely dacked 1n with doublo fron-walls, fill- ed with a stratnm of runuing water, Tho walla should be perforated, at suitable points, with Doles, through which, at tho shortost ranges, im- menso streams could’ bo poured npon A burning Iymbor-pile, elevator, or coal-yard, ; Theso boats should earry o two-lorse hoss carringo, with o dozen reols, holding each one thousaud feot of Lose. The carringo team should bo liftod to the shore loval Ly clevator, aud a grans shonld mako casy the doposition ioto the hose-oarriage of o full reol, whon. needed, mater of howe, it would bo well to lay iton plpos from tho rivor and lnke; to tho most important districts, to which tho lose of the boat might ‘ba advantagoously coupled. As tho boats would bo statiguary during tho winter months, some of thesa iron pipes should concontrata to a Eom at Madison strect, Bixtcenth strect, and Ohicago avenuo, 8o that, even when {rozen in, tho boats would be abloto proteet portions of the city rep- rosenting s hundred million of dollars. Cutrcado, July 19, 1874, TIREMAN, FIME-PROOF ROOFS THE DEST PIOTECTION. T0 the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bmm: When a fire is once atarted it will bo spread by one or three ways: by tho flames reaching to otber buildings and sotting thom on firo by actual contact, or by an intonse aud ig- ‘niting hoat produced by radiation, or by sparks and fire-brands being carrfod by the wind and deposited on tho tops of ather buildings, Iu caso of fires, whoro ooly two or three bullds inga aro burnt, the firo ususlly sprends by oo or tho othor of the firat tivo ways ; but whon a firo oxtonds to many buildings, it is, in most cases, communicated by brauds doposited on tho roofs of tho houses. If tho roofs of the build- ings, thorefore, wore fira-praof, thore conld not be any vory largo fires, even In & city bullt of wood, provided, also, there were an efilclont and sutiiclont firo departmont, In such casp tho fire would bo confiaed to ono place, and could nou gat boyond tho control of the firemen. In viow of thesa plain facts, 1 suggest that thore bo & lay af, once passed, and that it he on- forcad immediatoly, requiring overy building In tho city now bullt, and thoso to ba'built, to” ho covered with fire-proof roofing, snd furthor} that oves buudh:i not worth _tho exponeo of such roofing be ouce torn down, or moyed out of the city, The expenso of this roofing would be but littlo, and alf the bulldings in tho city could be thus protacted in & fow mouths, Wo would thus havo early and certaln safoty agalust any more grand firos, Tho plaus of widoniny stroots Into boulovards .orparks, of planting trcos, of bulldiug blank Dbrick fire-walls at intorvals, are all too slow, and ifdono, would do mo good. Tho wind would carry fire-brands ovor them, and stilt aproad the 1ire boyond thom, 4 The best and only security against the sproad’ of Qe from one houso to snother is,’ that thoy be built with brick or stone walls, with fire-proof roofs, and with_fire-proof covers to tho doors aud windows. But il would take fitty yoars or longer to chango the woodon dwollings of this clty into brick ones ; aud bofore thal time, or porhaps in flve yoars, thoy may sll bo burnt down, if loft in thoir prosont condition. In tho menntime, and untll tho operation of a eufficiont fivo-limits Inw eball work & changp in the walls of the buildings, lot us have tho proteotion of firo-proof roofs put ab once on_the wooden Liousos, West Sio. Outoaao, July 19, 1674, . MORE TOWRRFUL APPARATUS WANTED. To the Editor of The Chicaga Tribuns : Bir: Your suggestion relating to floating fire- oengines is cortainly an excollent one, and onght to bo sotedon, Buch engines might be of largs power, and bo of great local oftiolonoy within roach of our extended water-fronts, DBut most of our city lios beyond thorango of tholr useful- nesy, for whoso botter protection againatthe flery dsmon I see no suggeation. .If we aro not speodily taught somo bettor method of defense egainst there oft-rocurring disastors by those kot lossons, thon the future of this city Is easlly road,—it may bo fencod angd pronounced fnisbed. 1t is vory well at auch = timo to talk of au ine offieiont Fire-Marshal and of disobodient sub- ordinptes, of tho lack of disolpline in rank and filo, of political influonce, nud sll that goré of thing, and all with more or loss of truth, Thisis . doubtloss tho propor time for a goneral ovor- bauling of the Dopartmont, and yot it must be porfoctly manifost to ovory man that something radically moro ofliciont than we, or the world, lave must bo provided 8¢ some coat for cur fu- turo pratoction, ‘The groat Bouton fire proved that this protec- tion caunot bo found behind brick or granito walla. 1t ean ouly be had by tho uso of more powerful enginery,—no homaopathle Dabcock's with glittering apparatus chargod with gold poi- son, 1ior indood our pregent flro-machines, which nre able only to soud & gontlo oxhalation to the roglous abave tho fourth story,—~but wo must have built somo trowmendons euglucs of fully ten-fold tho,power and eapaolty of tho present machines, snd that will cast & tlood of wator on any given pojut ot the altitude of 100 foot. Of the Imotlunbll!ty and utifity of such enginca no mochanical englncor, I think, will doubt or de- ny; of thalr absoluto nocosyity our prosont fep- blo apparatus i3 a sufticient witnoss, Auan aid o such pondorous machines, it would be nacessary fo have a portuble tower, ad justa- ble ou tho ** telencope " prineiple, by which the pipomon might bo olevated to auy desirable helght, and bo bronght Into olo#o proximity to tho flre, bojug safoly protoctod in thelr * Toxay,” Thoy might be sldodgalio by a motallio stand- pipe to rellove tho great prewsurg on the flaxi- le pipo, The “*nogzle mlfiht also be handled by adjustiblo apparatus by whioh one man might easily dircet the discharge of any desired volumo of water, Ta gay that tho forogoing {8, In prin- aiplo, ivapracticablo, [s to confess our invoutive puerility sad laok ‘of mochanloal gonins,—io To oconomize in tho- pluck aud eug " ing hand, for the chesp 1o the laating, vp?!utm-ml 5 Sy doubs that it would quonch a Airo of vh'ulnvnr, magnitude, in any givon locallty, in:to dopy common principlos, - =l A #ooro and o Lalf yoars ag 'gob on vary' woll with tha old political lmxn‘:l-,('sggfno‘lnd l.hg ‘‘Boys."” We rotated them for_our presont flro- engine and ** Paid Dapartmont.” The imparative neoansity is now upon us to {ake anotlier atap, What shiall it he? ulttcago, July 16, 1874, ' . B, K, TIRER FINE DEPARTAENTS WANTED, To the Rditor af The OMeage Yriduna: - - v Bir: As it s tho duty of every aitizon to asnist in trying to savo the oity from dostruc- tlon by flre, aud to holp to organize somo menns by which firo may bo oxtingulshed quickly, I would suggost that thore bo three organized TFiro Dopartmonts In thia city, with throo Mar- shala b & salary of $3,000 cach, and ‘a Genoral ovor all at a salary of $5,000, Let thero ho ton engiaen for each Division, Bouth, West, and Nort Bidos, and lot them b statjoned at s distanco' epart in tho ithickest eotilomonts of \tho cily, mo that tho engines shall bo at work putting out the firo in throo minntos from tho timothe boll gives tho alarm, and disponso with' the Babcock ma- ehinen antigo)y (oxcopt tho smpllor ones,) of which lot thore bs » hundred, for the purposo of being used by the polico in going abund of tho firo- brands thac aro blown by the wind, and light upon thetop of byildings, which causes tho fira to sproad as it doos in this city, The largo Babcock engincs ars of but little aorvico atlorge fires, aud only the steam firo-angines are to ba rollod upon, s was tho ease in onr late fire. 'The small onesoan be used by tho pollss upon tho top of bulldings to keop the firs from spreading. Thoro aleg should be long hose that will roach from Laoko Michigan to Olark stroet, and from tho rivor to Olark, for the proteotion of the best anh of ourcity. A dozen of such hioso would @ of great Borvico, if thoy wore made Loavy and strong go thot two englnea could wérk at” each one, aud they would bo' tho meanw of saving tho buslnass part of the city. Boms have lug{nulcd that thoro bo stone walls, 200 foob gtroots, bonlovards, eto. That' such plana would stop s fire in Ohitago is as absurd as o think s fire would stop itsalf, . As for extonding the firo-Hmita, that is good enongh, bub evon that will not save Ohioago from buraing up. Wo havo abont 40,000 frame buildings thickly located all around tbo gity, and we ‘canuot halp oursolves. It is all well enongh for the gantlomen who addrossed the” maoling Baturday ovening, nnd adopted resolutions to oxtond tho Limits, build walls, opén stroots, ete., to cry oat: “Tear down the wood- en shanties and build bricks, and we will have no more fires.” Thisis all talk, Firca ocour in the Leat-gractod stone and brick,clties, a4 in Boston, Now York, London, and_others, and will always baro, as ]mnql‘m largo a population of §00,000 and 500,000 are pi ug togethor. . And, furthor, I bolieve wo may take the num- bor-of fires in.,?ghpr oltios and this, and comparo thom, and I think tho number will compare fa- vorably witbjours—only ours are largor,—and tho great roason is that wo are longer gotting to the dire than inother cities, Tho 8. Louis aud Cin- cinnati Departments aro alwayson the snot atthe firo bofore 3t gots a chianoe to sproad. That is tho reason we have such disnstrons fires,” The City of Chicago covers ns much agalu ground as 8t ' Louis, Cincinnati, or Baltimore, aud, thereforo, 'We require moro men, sud more eugines, and our material is easlor to burn, which is & great difii- oult; x \fizh thoao thirly engines, woll marshaloed and manned, ten in each Diviefon all good sleamors, there would nover bo_ snothor .such . fire. You cannot dispense with tho present wooden build- inge. Thay will stand in Chieago for fifty yoars to come, unloss yon drive tho poor men, women, and children out, and give their lots to rlak peo- plo who aro able to pull down and‘butld up'brick, ik ouly thing to b dona i to th @ ouly thing to bo done is [ izo tho fire companics, advortisa for good 'fl'fln from oflior clties, if we have not got them, put thom pndor.&wod mon, lat the Mra-Genoral®o mount- ed, and alwnys at his post ; make laws sa that Lo and tho mon undar him: shall-bo court-mar- e e ontion Iy ad n 0 suggoations, if propoerly ad- hored to, we would never hiave anutgor fire of any consequence. Althongh it may bo a Lienvy tax upon the clty, it will pay to organize in this. war. . B, Boyp. miokoo, July 20, 1674, . ! MORE PRESS COMMENTS. BLMPLE fTORNOR, Iyom the New Fork Tribune, June 18, - Tast night, when tho firet dispatches came in Early from Chicago, 1t 16 not surprising that the first fealing ° waa one of simple horcor, ‘Thofury with which tho tinmes had aitacked the city, just recovering from ita former terrible visitatlon, tha dismay which ssized upon the oitizens at the FappoArano o cloud of amoke gilded with sparks and fleshos of ‘wandering fire, and taataavaga roar which has hunnted the dreams of ‘many since tho fatal subumn of throe years ago, all seomed to preuago another disustor as much more torribie than tho lastss despair 18 worss thau misfortune. It i scarcoly too much Lo say that tho preseut generation wouid not have witnussed the second rebuilding of Glicago if tha fire last night bad deatroyed i, Its citizans havoalready accomplisliod two explofts whioh border upon the miraculops, croat- ing o groat city out of nothing in forty years, and re- building $& out of the asbes in two. Lut miraclos cannot b oxpected to continuo slwnys, and it is doubt- ful if tha cily lind been destroyed lust night, as for a moment seemned posaible, whotbor Lex wontod splrit ‘would bave survived {n Ler ashes, * ® Tut forfunately wo do not bave to teat this pintater ucation, The citizens this time {ook arms agalust tho confiagration, and by opposlug it, ended it. Wo aro content this morning with congratulating Olileago that shio still lives, aud that i was the stout hearts and arms of hor own sons that saved hor, GIIJAGO GONCLUSIONS. * From the e York Tribung Jdy 16, Toaders who 5, hrough the voluminous dispatches from Chicago, which we print elsowhore this morning, will bo apt to rise from the perusal with thres or four. couclusions protty distinctly drawn, 2 1. No aity is safe when surrounded with a cordon of wooden buildiugs whatover in its denser parts, 2, It in proposteraus to talk about fire-proof build- ing constructed with iron columna supporting floors, or walls, with wooden beams, with wooden lathing, with any waod about the roof, or without iron shut- ters, Trobably nat one building in s hundred, even of the eet {u the robullt Chicago, desprves to be ealled Are-proof ; and those which tho 'last fira atruck weat down nxmmmlv aa if the bulldors had ‘mever heard ovioua one, ofs tion b going o be subdued by e, 3. No great confiag &, e deparimoat which follows it tnstoad of Aghting ront. {3 Siiotio wae rebullt n advanoo of ita wans. Under ordinary ciroumstances, it would have taken from five o tan years for the Luajuess and population J) . to grow up {o the new houscs, Tha last ire may, io om0 oxtent, inoreass the demand for housea In tho ro- ‘built portivn, and thus improve rents and heighten tho apparent proaperity of the botter part of the eity, 6. The businiess of the country Las atood w0 many hiard knocks of late Lhat it takes far’ mora than such a fire s this Inst to make much of & panis, cltharin Oble cago, in New York, or alsawbiere, v TIUE LXAGONS OF EXPERIENCE GO'FOR NOTLING, From tha New York Herald, A new elty had ris isbud, though thousands of people {n comfortablo eirw cumslances had been utterly rulnod, never were such y displayed, Al gave to e3ch a help- and the old atreots sud aveaues, agsin lined with msastve-looklug atruatures, sre monnmental to thiat dauntloes spirit which cannot be ovarcom, - Bo quickly sud o complotely had all this boen accoms pilishied thut Chicago was ‘proud uf hor soutlagration and vainglorious of lier calamity, Poor, unfortunato, unlappyeity! A Nomoals yeeins slirayk to follow hor 10 cant kar down at the very moment when the future seums Lrightost and lovellost, 1t isa foasful fate— (he sooming wrath of the Furica—but it b o fate that Qteago bad propurad for boruelty sad that may bafall many other clties beaidos Chicagd, . . , : thin {8 proof that wo Lxve been ‘bullding cities it groab contiagrations may deatroy thom.' Onca b- foro Clicago weut through an even mora terrible or- deal of five, A yoar later Toston azporieuced s Mke visitation, * Later atill, block aftor biook lo Baltimore was destroyed, Now' it is Clicago & scopnd time, hat oty will noxt bo syopt away by one of (heao ter: riblo coutageations { ta lupossiblo . g predict, Tlnt allsre uquully expoxsd o dunger, pspacially all the of tho Weat, eyowy atmost cortuin, Ve bave bult without rogard'to security fron: firs, and a spark Tauy oal4a & terrible contlagration not valy in Chivsgo, in Doston, aud in_ Ualtimorw, but in every ally in tho Ualon, Now York ia to-duy mora at the inercy of tha wiuds than & stauch ship upon the acan, Thiy is,uot Lhia cage in Furo) Thore hsa not bocn n great tire inany of the Xuropoan capitals within the prossnt century, When the Puutechunicon [n London was burnvd, though the Leat waa jutsude, not & surround. ing bullding was destroyod, Whon the misoreautetof the Communc sought to fire Parls, their efforts fatlod, bucaueo tho city was froe from all thie eloments of inflammability, ‘ho capitala of the Old World soein fiveproof, aud 4 is only the young clitles of Amer- fos whichs crumble {0 sahos whotl 8 patk clisucos to fall in somo unguarded spot. Our Moumsa wro a suc. geaslon of tuder-loxes, standing in compact rows aud intlummable from garrat to bavoment, The flames can leap £roin roof to roaf and envelop Liousa after Livuss, aud thure Is no pawor that can utny thom while avy. thing iy left to buru or wntil the winds chunge in thutr couria and aweop. tha monstor bnak upon lts fery track, An we yomarked Dbeforo, wo huild cities that roat conflagrations may destroy them, and i seerun luposslble that sny calumity can ba a0 terriblo as to doter us {vom courting Like caluaitics in tha future, Wiint aro o ta tbiuk of autselvus s 4 peaple wi E :at all the loasons of experience g for nol TIo 0 it ST ¥ heliove tha the. Bow on'fugn or the now Boaton fs whit mora ecure than the old, A city Dbuilt i & year OF W yours must bo & sham. That ile Take Qlty of the Wesh wna s sbam from the day tho firat rade eabin was bullt upon itasile upto the prosent mament iss now bean doubly proved, A real city could not hinya beon twioe destroyed, Tiut, worst of all, (his socond cuntlagration may uot'be iho last, In a ‘week wo tuy hear 6f another fire in Okicago as torrible sa olthior “of -those (hat have already ovoul to thora |y & ciby oF park afa clty thore to burn it may be buraod, " Aud all this beoatusa wo bulldeckicasly sz in hasts, A spirly of fulse econumy impels W to Bubjct e bunden of i away fram & that ominous . en on the rulus of the old, . ‘Though hundreds of wealthy men had been jmpavopr- . blsh will to-day aatonnd the Amerlean poople, holde Ing up 10 them a2 doos thta second Ohicago. calammity. anotier torrible vislon of thelr own recklessnons ang ibo Inntablilty of ull thielr works, wo eannot but robuke Lho spitlt thnt bellttlos the cousonuences of tifs cone fingration, 1t 18 8 grin in tho faco of Death to say that Ohieago will o hielier off in the ond for thia saconl visitation, 8ich utiorances nra only born of maducss aud despate, and wo fo dows ot B iy 10 Tae 1 e e ma ot e aud forsibly unfartuame, > L0V Ao 785 OHIOAGO'S FRNALTY, Tioro really seoma 1o b ol o * Thor orlios il 004 Norke'ly ekt 40, DEESCh T8° it ave oo i Aratio dosory tho abvions morst of Cuondny’s omllica of fhol f-y'v nevwnpapors have for the(r mmv.mu.o:xn i emion. ng ruins of twonty blooks of ity propart, #ho Yargo of tho districh once ovored by 8re of inodern tfmos.’ It Ja always dangerous to p wooden Unildings {n & great cily, . Booner ar Ty will cortatuly s biithod, and el To8s i8 not of 80 inuch account as tholr buruiug 15 to noigivorhy Dulldings that othorwise might liavo atood uharmed. The firo on Tuonday may cost $1,000,000; it might coat £50,000,000 or $100,000,000, #£ thiera had heon more, of the ordisiary oonditipns Thyorable to a great. sproad of tho conflagration, ' - Nobiody nead think that Otiledgo, bocAnzo it fa sura founded by nfammnblo materials atd 18 subloct 10 gl winds, is pecyliatly a prey to the flames, ofthor of thosa aon1lionn asinted 1n Boaton, but it o my elty was smitten woefully by firo, I Hoston the enoe Ty camo down on the Ligh' buildings and tinds roofs, - How many of gur Enstorh cltics are yarning from thak costly examplad instance, wo hava secn alnco thad eiglit or ten storicd affair shot up (o the skies, out 9f tho reach of evoey possible applianoe for extin; ing firea, Hotols, warehouscs, fancy buainens biocks, aud othier structures aro rushied 1ip fastor and furtlior than the invontion of Gire apparatus can follow thow, We nro fmitating Chicago in furnishing fucl: to; feed flames tuat cantiot ba autdued, “The old parts of the Clty stored with axplosives and food for firo are glgantis piles that lift their honds o hts beyond {h Tho Iatest great fire in: Oliloaga would , call apecial comuont I 1 wore 10F feust At fe 1 oso 3¢ many similar disastors to tho xama city, 1f Now York 18 fortunatcly in » situation to read jts homily to Olile £3g0, it 8 a160 truo that our own turn may oorno noxt. To be suré, the configuration of Manhatian Iaisnd is Dot favorable to any such long swoep of flamos ns thas ‘which Ohicago Lins 80 offen Bufferod ; but wo are accte muliting matorial, heapiug up tho Qro-traps, and, elude iug the applisnces of acionce overy day. Of more eities than Now York and Boaton this {3 true. Iiverybody b inaburry o bulld, fo fnish, and, ta roporty. But the day of reckoning wi o7 ua &t Inst, i ‘THM OHIOAGO FIRE AND ITH LRSSOM. + s From the New York Warld, It #§ wera only cartain that tho losson womld be loarned, if it were assnred that this’ third awful warne ing would bo heoded, and £ wa couli believe thst the buildors of American citios aro now roady to listen bo ths volca of Teason, wo would not regret tho ohastise~ S surcly coma © reach of hoas, hydrant; or engine. . “In Now ¥c ‘: lh: : ow York, for time nmr:nmn'nu ube . y ot galn from ment which has Just beon given {o our:proud young Bistot of Chicago, and, we should say, tho sisier im whom we fake tho greafost pride. Tho Amercan poow ple, an city-builidors, are a4 yeb In tho position of tha phfiological student ‘who wonld bogin tha mastory of & now language by an attamnpt to read the posta before Jearning the rudlmenta, The terriblo lesson just given to Ohiesgo #a ope ' which noithior Now York nor any other large clty in tha Unlted States hina yet learnod and taken: {0 hears, and the foar iz, that 10 oue will Jearn 1t even now, IE Now York han'thus for eacapod the ponalty of nogiect~ ing it, 1t ia not bocause she merita s better fate, The - lesgon hins besn assignod to all alike, and tho tas] Bose iould Do 16 hand ovor st onca. ouk shkEs ¥ mus «| ba performed; and, If it loft undone, the ffifll]'z wil Burely corie, sobtior oF aters Ous pkeeen el fine which has boon impotad npon cur sister city, sud. - ok to work immadiately to do our part lowards'pros ‘vonting tho infiction of such punisiimonts in tho fo- firo, 3£ Gulcago has hor milos of Tine shantlod, Now York hoa hor aqiiared of tenement-h etructures capped with frall 0ofs, and cenuiNDing quito aa great & tomptation to the demon of firo, Ine stead of improving, {nstoad of benofiting by the ez amples made of Boston, Chicago, and Yortiand, New York has gone on from bad to warse, Our by dl.nt 1aws aro very imperfect, and what Hitls good thare n thom is not utilized, £ & b Chicngo, In lor aficlion, will rosolve tnbomnded l{lm]llfll{. notwithstanding sho bas ainned, *She will al30 poceivo. material atd, and wo hope that New York will vio with Boston, who haa already opened hor hand ta holp the unfortusiato alstor. Groat exertions seom 10 have been made to ascartain the origin of this lasg at fire, Db oven if thesa groat exortions should succosaful, and it ahiould ba proved that the flames wero startod by an jucendiary Liand, or for that mat Ly s couspiracy of incandisrios o discovery woul not aller the esacntlal fact, Tho blame is on the heads dariug people as rackless and dofisat of danger 0 thole brothers In the metropolls. 4 afty should be bullt in such a way s {0 bo able, by theholp of brave and efficient firewsen Jiko those of Chicaga havo provon themaselves 10 bo, to feol sccure agaiush ths dosigua of dncndiarios, rom the Clpeinnadt Commprctal, g innatf Commgrefal, i Trwone aeka (hnt 50 slEUCIAr of wood ba poruiticd ouceforth and forever in the ONty of Chicago, Itscems sirange that one tremendous l¢sson on this polnt was no-encugh, But it yay.not, snd . foar or fiva millions mors have been wastod ta give it emphusis, . SUBLIANK OF IMAGIVATION, on inclingtd Gasette, The Chiotgo® disyaichiss swora ordered leaded * lnst night, That was on tho’ strongth of tho firat ona 11ad the fill avcount boen o when the direction was given, ¢ 18 doubtful If it would have bocn thogght niecessary Lo thus emplianizo theconflugration, B9 Tas a4 wo can judge, {ho losses will be comparativoly Hight, It 4 weil'to make a fair nllowance for tha cxubsrance of imagination of the avorage Ohloago re- porter. “Definito statements are wanting, but thore ig o lack of cloguont descrilion, us proguostication, aud moral refloctions, scribes thie builaiugs tiat woro burned ss & parcel of #old rookeriea, Wa presume that talla tho story, DOES XOT TAY. ° . Prom the St Louls Democral. . As wa supposcd, the Cliicngo “prens denounces in na hesitating terms iis politioal Fire Dopartmientas the pual, causn of tlie destruction of millions of property by the lato firo, In process of time, ‘doubties, ro< aiioctable cittaous will conclude that it doos not ry, in the long run, to lot public atfaira slones, Thousauds of men, who would fesl offended if told that thelr orim= inal neglect of duty hiad caused a loss of wmillious to tho N’Z, bave utterly rofusod to ‘hittend primary mocke inge, though numerous.cuough to control such meote iuge'in slmost overy ward, “Tho rolectlon of canl- dalos thoto lazy or sclfish oftizens have left to the lows est and leaat “worthy mowmbers ‘of * thoir Jartn, ve proaume, in Chicago aa in s many other oftles, " 'Ang the candldntes, bolug of the sort which such members would naturally select, could not be cxpected to forget the atrikers-and - bumers to whom they really owed success. Consequently the Firo Dopartiont bocume an asylum for political dead beats, and Chicago pays the damago. Wo suspect that about 20,000 citizens of §t, Louis, though they liavo s good Firo Dopartmont, l&c in to realize. thet thoy also Lave megloctod thely nlfes, i, smoke HOMILTIOOPF CASLMENTS, - L Prom the inelonatt Enguiver, Yo the second rebuilding of Obicaga it would be wall to cousidor the fonslbillty of ercctfug fire-proof and bomb-proof casements fustead of ordiuury dwollings houves, Nothiug short of this atylo of architocture will save Chicgo, % . ', Ohickgo needs s mow Yire Dopartment and » food doal of symgatly. ' "Thaworst festure of the Oblcsgo set another srmy of #sufferers in the tield, THL OLD LESKONS ENFORGKD ANE) ¥ - .. Fyom the Boston Advertber, Bo far 35 o ‘cun 1OW boo, thioza 8 1o new leston td be learncd from this latost calamity, but tho old ones are auforced anew, The exteut of tho fire, tho fact tlst it became dang duo to the dulay In ‘nover ailow 'the flames to beyond the house in fire is, that i will . erous, was . grappling mnw; Tha porfoct Fire Dopartmont will ‘which the fira originated, There is no reavon why - thore shiould not be dlstricis 10 proall that ive minutos could nover olapss after an alarm bafpre the moans of fighting fire are on tho ppot and in operation, Another reason of ho magnitude of the Chicas g0 firo waa defective cousiruction. The grestur psrh of “the distriot torriule fire of 171, and tho buildings wers of course oftlia asme ejass a4 thoso then destroyed, Dut the two districts overlapped, snd b scoms that soveral blogka of now slxuctures, o after the diroful ox periouce of thred yours sgo, Were swept away as quitke Iy sa other and older byildings, This confrms the .statemouts that bava baan freely made, but as freely donied, that um‘n\::lmmg in thas quarter ws ourtied on withiont any further attemnpta to guard aguiust Sre {f wlo fa bia origiual bubde ings, Boston learned s leason by her experiouce. 1§ i poasiblo that agnin » firg that hud gained great headway might sweop through this same soction thag wus destroyed in JB13, but wo have ot Jeaat thie satis- faction of kuowiug that. safety from such s calamity ‘wus constautly sought after apd ouforced by law, Fon the Hoten dpurnal m the Bastan Journal. . Mayor Gobb bas rightly {uterpreted the feeltngs of our people in felographin Ghicago a hearty tendor of assistance and an in- quiry va to what mny bo needod, Tha relloruted cry of dfmou 11 suy quarier. quly ouliunoces the synijwe thiea “of Yioston and furuishes additional niotive for churity, We truil, ' howavor, that tho mands for Outsids swistanco wlll e losa th was supposod fram the first sccounts of this last firo.. ‘The same port of impulse which, ro told, pwkes the residont of Chicago move bis nto tho wtroet at ‘an alorm of fire whick would been uubeoded beforg the great couflagration, wiakes our peopla genprully ready to dnfer, whsnover they loar of afire {n Chicago, that the elty in belug . reditced to ashes sgain, A Obicago fire now scoms actunlly worse aud inove destructive ibun suy other, o o o 'With the meaus {or rellef" exiating oo the spot, time will be given for ascertainlug vxactly huw much will be neoded from otlior comumuniti TFor that contingoney, whatover it may Lo, Hogton Wi beready withs bur purt, aud more, toa. LILERAL AID I¥ NEEDED, em_(hs Philadelyhia Inquirer, . 1t may be an expousive why of geliing rid of tha tiudar-lioxes I thy slape of lioiisca, of which Oliieago Lns so syay, bt 1t fs Dottor to gat rid of thum by fire than to lot tiem atand & from without than wors nu rpotual souroe of dauger ia the entira city, By tho ]P;lxlul ler now exporioncas of ‘Pueaday and Wednenday, Qhicago onght ta be able te w00 thiat no more woouey striiofures sbould be builk and all hor uld onea renoved, “Lhis timo the fire was coufined to the sluma aud ta the_ Under-boxes, bat ahiould b remquboped that, {n 1871, tho flames, utarte ing Iu Hodesbozes, laid’ tho costlicat edifices in uulics, 5 APEAKS TADLT, - vois s Uugale Conigercloly Tho clty has jearned miuch by sad experience, Horeafter an smbition to display & maryelously rapid- growth will nob b allowed to overdonia yrudence in probibiting the arvotion of wooden tinder-boxus in tha very businesn-loars of the vlty, "Even whila the rulng of this sovond great eoutlagration wers smoldng, the alarm-olls ealled tho torror-atricken cltizens to'whe neas anothor fire which {hreatened to be equally de= atructive, but rostod satiafied affer Loking up a block of mare of bufll!lllq‘t All this .Fm. badly for the way in which old Chicago was built ; it will bethe ruls iervafter to orect fire-proof atruotures on tho ares den. vaatatad in Lhe iwo meniarable condagrutiousy to tho suthorilies of . burped over was spared in ‘the . A Chleago “gentlemon dos .