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Show . ........ .-- .-SO O U w I . J The vater rressure, as registered at the Fire department headauarters this rnornlng:, was the lowest that had been leached during tho entire year. The jresaure was only fifty-five pounds'. Without the eld of the fteamer, the water couid not be thrown mor than twenty-five feet from the nozzle, from a hose line of ordinary length.... Chief Bywater saya that the city has been generous to the department in the matter of allowing: the purchase of a "new steamer, and that the department Is how capable of handling any fire that mljht start, if the department la notified' at once. " Ha says that, the new engine, in addition ad-dition to those that were In use In the department before the purchase of the hist one, makes it a certainty that the low water pressure would not prove a serious handicap in any contingency. There will ba no considerable improvement im-provement in the matter of water pressure pres-sure for three months, or until the fall rains begin. In the meantime the Waterworks Wa-terworks department is making: every effort to check the waste of water by water uaera. It is understood that a quiet campaign is to be Instituted by the Waterworks department to check the practice of persons In office buildings build-ings and residences allowing: the water .to run all the time in order to keep It cool. Those who flood their lawns and waste It otherwise, may be punished, according to the latest ordinance, by having their entire water supply cut , off for the summer. . Since the first day of July there have ! been only twenty runs made by the fire 1 department. In only one case waa there a serious fire, and the prompt arrival Of . th fire department at the scene of thU blaze, and the good Judgment of the firemen kept the loss down to a much smaller figure than would have resulted result-ed with careless handling. Chief Uyvrater of the Fire department jsays that the merchants in the business busi-ness section are co-operating . loyally with htm, in his efforts to keep ' the buHdlngs and premises clear of rub-blsh rub-blsh and inflamable material. |