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Show i I THE WAR CRY. From now .011 the war cry must be "Waterworks! "Waterworks! " Provo cannot afford to allow matters to pro-V pro-V ceed much further until steps for the construction of the same are taken. ' A city boasting of her six to seven thousand inhabitants; of her massive brick blocks; of her stately places of worship, wor-ship, and of everything that are indexes to a city's prominence, cannot allow herself to be without means of protection protec-tion from the devastating ravages of the fire fiend. While our fire department depart-ment can stand any amount of improvement, im-provement, yet there are times likely to occur, and that, too, at any moment, mo-ment, when their services, no matter how finished and skilled, would not avail one iota. The handsome structure of the Gates-Sxow furniture block will serve for illustration. With the best equipped fire department, what good could it possibly do without a supply sup-ply of water? If this building was to . .break out in flames some night, where e Ik-si ' em r v it; The only" good and sure supply t" water is the Factory race, and that is nearly two blocks distant, so that even though there was sufficient hose to connect with the water supply, yet we doubt if the engine would be able, in addition to forcing the water through the hose, to throw the stream to any great height. Of course we realize that the city has not the cash in its coffers to pay for the constmction of waterworks. That is a subject for further discussion. discus-sion. 13ut the waterworks must be had, whether it be by bonding the city, by selling the property that the city owns, or by encouraging some one, not of the Witckeh Jotes stamp, to come in and build them fur us. Of course, it would be much better for the city to own the works, and, by a little finan-ceering, finan-ceering, we have no doubt but what this could be done. Anyhow, The DisrATcn hopes that the subject will lie taken up, not only by the city fathers and our energetic Chamber of Commerce, but by the I people at large. As we said in the beginning, so say wo at the close, the war cry from now on must be: " Waterworks! Waterworks! Water-works! " |