Show H That fire at Iloboken was d fearful I catastrophe but it aeeme that no reasonable rea-sonable foresight could hove prevented It I Suddenly n cotton bale was in someway some-way ignited on the pier and at once there was a general conllagratlon which was unmanageable 1901 the flrut and soon Involved hundreds of lives and property that was wellnigh priceless price-less Threo great steamships of one line were caught In tho vortex of thc fire and bUn d They were fashioned to tight thO storms and the big sons to r f fight tho fire when at sea but there they were tied as It Were to the I stake I f and were helpless to protect themselves v But after all the great loss was inhuman I in-human lives and that was equal to an ordinary batllolleld Men have many I a problem yet to solve and one Is how to prevent fires on piers covered with Inflammable freight L r |