Show MORE TJORE FIRES eires AND MORE FIRES tiie THE most numerous topic in our depa patches dispatches det des tebes of late is that of fires including those consuming and almost towns and cities forests and human life there must be considerable malice carelessness or recklessness prevailing to ito result in such continued numbers of conflagrations home bome of them of appalling extent and destructive ness the em extensive use of timber for which there is yet no generally generall undoubted available substitute is undoubtedly greatly reatis re atly atis conducive to the multiplicity in 1 ity and extent of the fires in his alis countey the restless driving i hurrying energy of the american iea lea people impels them to adopt the re readi adlet ett cit which is often the most combustible material at hand and structures of the film flim biest blest description are erected thereof this invites burning which once started is so swiftly destructive tbt th fc it is very difficult to save such bt bv edings they are like tinder for catching fire easily if the disposition exists to prevent fires as much muerl as possible more care should be e excised exercised and noncom non com bastible bus tible material in the construction of buildings should be more tene kene generally rally raily empi empl employed oyed the exigencies of the newer portions of the country seem to demand the erection of a flimsier class of buildings by not giving time or means for the construction of more durable structures but the custom thus induced should be resisted as much as it conveniently can be aa as aside from buildings of that class proving peculiarly culi arly food for flames they give an ephemeral character to american can structures which is in strange and unfavorable contrast to the buildings of famous nations in former ages and those of some great nations of the present day |