Show BUILDING MINTS A correspondent of the New York Evening Post say that the Windsor hotel fire was caused by the Igniting of gas that had leaked from the street mainsInto the basement and had filled all the partitions He further says We find like phenomena In the case o the fire vihlcli destroyed the dwelling and thirteen members of the family of Mr Wallace C Andrews In this instance an especially wellbuilt house of the first class was swept by lire from basement base-ment to attic with such suddenness that Mr Andrews was caught on the stairs and shriveled to n cinder while trying to descend from the second floor to the parlor Only gas could explain such a casualty That statement ought to be carefully 1 I noted and C fact or two which it contains con-tains ought to influence every man who builds a house in L city to take certain precautions Ono is to see to it I that every partition below tho street and as many as possible above shall be made of masonry The need of this Is neee much greater now than It was fifteen years a o for unless ago great care Is taken on streets whcrr electric cars are run the water and gas mains wIll soon be disintegrated by i the electric ground currents We hope that before long there will be Iron work established In Utah so that men who build business houses can afford to make each floor nford foor a bulkhead against fire With the floors made secure the partitions all brick the laths all metallic there would not be much chance for fire and If a fire were to break out Us Is progress would bo so slow that the lives of tho people In the structures would not be put In I much Jeopardy |