Show THAT HOBOKEN FIRE Since tho loss of life and property at tho Hoboken piers and In the ships and boats ensnared there we suspect that arrangements will be made pn all great piers to guard against fire The work on 0 modern battleship Is done mostly by electric engines The ship Is lighted the ammunition Is carried t the guns by electric power and It would seem as though that would bo the most feasible agent to set pumping engines to work along piers packed with freight and lined with costly ships Then afire a-fire brigade and dock patrol would always al-ways have to be on hand ready for work and under n discipline which would prevent mistakes Then It Is not well to pile cotton bales beside barrels of oil on a pier alongside which great passenger passen-ger steamers are moored According to the account If 1 great conflagration had been plaaned no moro effective a disposition dis-position of things could have been made than existed when the fire broke out Men do not readily learn caution except by experience and surely that was an experience sad enough to fully Impress all men who havo the care of docks and piers and shipping when In port Doubtless time suddenness of the catastrophe and the almost envelopment envelop-ment of the huge piles of freight all most Inflammable was what paralyzed everyone and In a moment as It were everything wharf cargoes and ships were Involved I Is the most appalling catastrophe of the kind on record and it ought at least to awaken a determination determi-nation among all interested that a like disaster shall never again happen |