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Show fmm City Fire Department Most Expensive ffIlNEW YOItK'8 fire department Is not HI ll only tho most oxpeuslve in the Krj world, costing as it does nearly $2,000,-Ef $2,000,-Ef 000 every year, or nearly $1.76 per fl head ot the population, hut It also uses fl) more water than any other, tho quan-EB quan-EB averaging 32,OQO,OQ0 gallons n year. Wfi' London's fire brigade uses but 17.000.-IKj" 17.000.-IKj" 000 gallons annually, and costs per Mj head ot the city's population not more m9 than ten conts. fhm In point ot numbers, Paris comes VM first wth nearly 2,000 "laddies." 8L jtll Petersburg next with 1,250, Berlin Sj 1J00, New York 1,100, Chicago 1,000, Wm Hamburg about 000. The last-nsmod nWj city supplies more than 300 flremon gm for every 100,000 head of population, f ft whllo London supplies only 13 for the same numbor. Tho bell prevails for a jf n warning signal as the flre-charlots B V dash through the streets In all cities .exempt London. There tho brigade ft career through the crowded thorough-; thorough-; 2 .cowing from the lusty lungs of the ; Kg gallant Uddles. ; 1 it, Is n,0t generally known In Ameri-' Ameri-' G ca, that one of KIn Edvard's foibles, & 5, when prlne ot Wales, was attendance R M. bis; firw. Ha ws always especially r f iiuilttwl ky UM ftM chM of tny big L ! bi In tti Bat 1 Mi aroolls, where i If hit was as wU kown to firemen ns k I Oupt,, 8hsw liMeH, tho Chief Croker " nf ibit London ttXH WhbAk It lt pld that ho always assisted tho men at far as he could, and on ono occasion It Is certain that a Bpoutlng hoso took so nctivo an interest In his royal high noss that tho prlnco looked anything but princely whon tho men had got him disentangled. It will bo remembered remem-bered that Chailcs II of England took an active fireman's part in tho groal flro ot London. |