Show ON STANTON ON 1 S I The Ideal Drum Major of the World on Dress Parade PLATING ON THE BRICK PIERS I The New School of Extinguishers Who Lock the Building and Spill the Water on the Outside Many persons have tried to draw mo out on Chief Stantonbut I have invariably put them off by replying The least said about i the better S t 1 t S A man who has been fined 2 for slugging a private citizen when he i ought to have been plugging the fire and came within one vote of being censured by the council that appointed him to office needs no further vindication unless it be a subscription paper circulated among the men that pass themselves for gentlemen by being vivacious in their cups and sometimes some-times riotous in their hilarity about logic Brothers ginpalace t t t 1 1 When I was a member of the bucket brigade it was the practiceto put the water on the fire This I find is not the meth din d-in vogue by the new school of extinguishers extin-guishers On the principle that the best way to save the horse is to lock the stable door the popular plan of saving the building build-ing is to keep it tight and spill the water on the outside After the fire has got a good header and the building has become sufficiently heated knock in the plate glass with your bugle This receipt never fails to turn out a good baking t t 1 1 While the manner of prQcedure may be hard on the owner of the building it works admirably and affords much amusement and a high order of entertainment to the crowd of spectators who would be greatly disappointsd at not seeing a fine display after missing their Sunday dinner and securing a choice curbstone ticket 1 1 t I honestly think Chief Stanton deserves great credit for his presence of mind in furnishing one of the finest pyrotechnic displays possible out of the materials at hand Had not some very presumptuous persons lost their heads and climbed to heights where firemen dare not attain and kept dousching the flames back the chief might have given a bigger show than he did t t t The heroic efforts of the firemen in play i ing on the brick piers to save the window casings when there were sixteen hells of lurid flame lapping and lashing away undisturbed un-disturbed on the inside to me was a spectacle spec-tacle that enlisted my profound admiration t t t While Chief Stanton may have lost his head he certainly kept his fists with him and nut them where thev would cln tho most good Though somo prejudiced ld Mormons may insist that the chief is a failure fail-ure at handling hose his admirable manipulation manip-ulation of the gloves is unquestioned t t t The chiefs fine figure as it stood boldly out with a background of flame was an imposing sight and as he raised his horn on high and smote it with his bugle lips and peeled the air with a blast of sound he appeared such a trumpeter as would have appalled the triumvirate No twang of discord was there but the pure unbroken notes fell on the ear ana etranced the soul with a rythm of sweet sound 1 1 1 The programme was perfect in every detail de-tail The time selected could not have been better I drew the crowd By way of variations there were slugging matches threats and fusilades To heighten the effect ef-fect the gas was turned on and to make the conflagration complete not even the sales book was allowed to escape t I I 1 1 How did the chief look What did the spectators say of him Wasnt he simply elegant 1 Fit to kill The darlingest figure in the town 1 Too swell for the swim I Too bad if his sweet moustache a scorched 1 These were some of the thoughts uppermost in the minds of the spectators while the chief fought the fire unconscious that he was the idol of ten thousand hearts 4 1 1 The chief on dress parade was immense and afforded all the entertainment for his audience that could be drawn from the materials ma-terials at hand Rah for Stanton and groaus for his traducers The next fire parade has not been announced though the programme will be full of interest During Dur-ing the act the chief will make at least three separate and distinct changes of costume and his lavender trousers have been ironed and are without a wrinkle and will show the fine carves of his handsome legs and protruding calves in each separate separ-ate limbin a way that will make the hearts of the dear girls leap into mouths Do not miss it Bring your bull terriers and game chickens along and make a day of it Fires instead of being dreaded will be looked forward to as a source of pleasure and innocent recreation recreaton itt 1 do not blame the chief He did the best he knew how A man that is full of himself has room for little else and when he has lost his temper there is nothing left of him The blunder was the councils With plenty of firemen 1 the country who have fought a fire a day for ten years and who would gladly come to Salt Lake on a small salary the criminal negligence of picking up a novice that has turned out a nonce has no excuse to offer t t tAn t-An old firemen would have rushed on that bit offlame and drowned the life out of it before it got out of the partition walls in which it was hemmed but tho crowd would have gone home disappointed at not seeing a big fire iii They however saw Stanton tho ideal drummajor of the world ou dress par dean de-an Ingomar in action and it was a sight to see The fire was a side issue Like tho picture of i battle in which the general on horseback is the only object visible on the canvas Stanton filled and satisfied the eye WAX WORKS |