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Show WHAT SHALL BE DONE? The tramp nuisance is becoming alarming. People are not only nervous about being out at any reasonable hour of night, but it is getting so that they feel insecure in their own homes. Men are loth even to leave their families fami-lies in the day time while they go to their work. At night they go to repose ! not knowing but what the brazen tongue of the lire boll will aroast them from their slumber. It is truly a most alarming time. Here within a very short period several fires have occurred, oc-curred, that have been the dastardly work of th tramp. True, the buildings build-ings burned have only been stables or barns or stacks of hay; but who can tell : but what the next conflagration will I be one of our best business blocks ? I Whe a man gets bo depraved that he J will wreak his vengeance on an officer I of the law or an individual for refusing I him something to sat, by deliberately J setting fire to an out building, there is a no security against him placing the ) torch to a more valuable structure. Imagine that the fire of Monday night had been in the centre of Union Block, what would have been the result under un-der the circumstances as they then existed,! "Why ther would not haye been any let-up, it seems to us, till the whole block had been in ashes. Then what is to be done? It Is an J evident fact that the trkmpajaA---" s - cttydpdayain9'w3.' successful, . Nearly thirty "Oi . & were corraled last week; ..... person of a saspicioui nature, unable to give any account of himislf, was at once taken to the city bastile. The police cannot do any more than they , have been doing. Then what next? It seems to us, then, that the next best move would , be for the city to go to work and do i I something with the fire department. IAt least two men one, for the engine and another fer the hose and fire ap- iparatus, should be given monthly salaries sal-aries to attend to the work of the de partment, and keep things in readiness readi-ness for emergency. Even these two men, upon an alarm of fire being given, could get the engine to the scene of ' the conflageration and at least have everything ready to force a stream of water through the hose as soon as it j could be coupled. ; We would recommend to the City i Council that they give this matter some consideration at their next session. |