Show i i A VITAL CT The order anti and rapidity with which tho tue Union schoolhouse was vacated on Wednesday when lire 1110 was WaR discovered In tho the basement ot of the building as III re ro related latent In tho the News Newa ef o tho the same name eve ovo evening fling ning reflects credit on tho the principal tho the teachers and ond the scholars anti and demon demonstrates strates the tha benefits of oC tho tite drill and Ana tho tim ease clUe anti amI safety effected by discipline and tho the suppression thereby of at panic panto and anti tear fear Time The march from Crom tho the school schoolhouse house was admirable and shows Dhows how hol quickly a 1 crowd can escape tram front a building on tire fire It If proper avenues aro are open opeil and reckless disorder Is avoided The Tho terrorizing cry of or l is III tho the primal cause causa of ot the stampede that leads I to a wild ROll anti violent rush for tor escape anti and results In Iii 11 destruction and death The Tho Impulse to sound such luch an nn alarm alamat in ina a 1 crowded building build In should be bo stilled be before before HI fore toro a tL sound Hound Is uttered And nd when tho discovery Is 18 made m d rational persons I ought to keep cool anti and strive to calm the tho excitement of ot others othere It Is Ie tho the pan pall panto to ie that Is 19 tho the great source of oC danger and tho the terrible loss 1098 of oC life lito and limb that ensues would not often otten be ho great from thu the Itself lt alone Tho fite lessons o of the tho dreadful calamities i that occasionally occur ore are that every overy possible precaution should bo be adopted rondo mode compulsory and ensured by out Inspection of ot places where public gatherings rite me had Also Allo that In ill nl nil largo large or public buildings apparatus for Cor should bo be on the tho premises and bo at It hand report that the tho janitor at ut tho tile Union school had to run nut ICO yards before he could reach tench an alarm box suggests that every In the city should have one on the tto spot or close at nt hand There Thero will VIII no no doubt bo be a n very sery gener genor general genorn al ni n I wal throughout tho the country COUll try on this matter In con of ot tho the Chi Chica cago ca I holocaust time the effects of ot which have hIo come homo home to families In so many purls parts of ot the tho land lond And this ought not lIot notto notto to tl bo Lie merely a 0 agitation i Permanent provisions against ago last such ruch hor i mars and continuous conti and amid determined enforcement of ot such laws and regula regulations re ula are uro essential to time the safety t of cit life nun property This Tills Is ID a n vItal Issue antI and ought to bo be kept alive alle |