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Show FIRE FIGHTING ABROAD Chief Alfred Webb From Australia Aus-tralia Gives Pointers. I WHERE AMERICA FALLS DOWN Four Fires for Ev3ry One In Europa and Australia. Uoted Visitor Tells of Chicago Horror and Preaches Better Building Construction and Inspection. After traveling half-way around the world and studying tho method? of building build-ing construction and flre-llghtlng In- Ilia principal cltlea of Europe, Canada and thc United Slates. Alfred Webb, chief officer of the lire brigades In Xow South Wales, Australia, arrived In Salt Lake yesterday Horning. Chief Webb makes a statement which will cause surprlso to most Americana. He says that thoro are four tires In the United Slates" to one fire in Europe ind Australia, the estimate being made on the basis of population. Ho accounts for tho difference in favor of tho foreign countries by the fact that there. Is a more rigid enforcement en-forcement of rho laws cor.ccrnlng building construction ;.nd precautionary measurea, The United Suites." hu aald, "baa excellent ex-cellent laws, but I llnd considerable laxity In their enforcement. I regard tho French law In tho Code Napoleon as tho bp-t building act in the world. Under itH UrniH the contractor orlglnallv hud to gtiMi-antoe- the safety of tlu building for twenty years. I bcllcv.- tho tlmo. hna now bcn reduced to t.-n years, but the efTcct Is -very .satisfactory in Uurcne laws for the protection, of I'fp and nrooerly are fltilctlv obacrod. and (he resi.lt Is a m!nl-muTi m!nl-muTi lo bv llr "Whon 1 was in Clil. aM 1 .'"Iterl the Irorpiol.i tlioatcr I found that tho ground i-xlla were numron i-noiicb t oomph' with the -nopt stringent regulations, but thev told me ihot many of 1 lie dois wr" looked. At one of the cxlt3. whore the Kreatcst loss 'of life occurred, the doorn had to Iks burstcd in by tho firemen from the outside. Bodies were niled up against the doors to thc height of neven feet." Chief Webb Is making his tour of tho world at the expense of tho Ktale. He was given elsht months" leave of absence, and this In the forty-third city he has visited. In his travels ho has aeeurcd price? on materials and equipment, and. as a result, will be able to wive thc cost of the trip In two years, and at the same tine give New South Wales tho benefit of I1I3 ob- 1 scrva lions. He finds, he said yestcrdav. that thr. I younger fire organizations in America are more progressive than tho departments In the older cities, because thev am not r.o set In thlr wavs. The ehlef will be tho guest of Chief Uevino until Saturday and will observe the workings of the local lire department. He will also Ftudy the effect of extra wide streets and lai-3c blocks on the conflagration problem. |