Show mismanagement AT THE FIRE EIRE popular verdict in relation to the management of yesterdays fire is ii that it could hardly have been worse it had no parallel in any incident of the kind that everee ever occurred iu this city the chief erred dindot in not deliberately ascertain ascertaining jug the precise location of the flames and centering all efforts on the work of them the officers acted wrongly by standing la in the way of the saving of property in preventing interested persons familiar with the establishment from having access to the promises the refusal to accept of suggestions from men of known ability and experience was a great blunder while the ejection of mr ellerbeck who wished to sever the gas connection tion was another foolish proceeding that hut but for the promptitude of that gentleman might have caused a great conflagration and incalculable loss of life and property A great deal of wind work in the shape of duffis bufie has been indulged in with regard to the efficiency of the present fire depart ment but when the real test appeared the they were found wanting we believe 1 ife ve however that the boys as a rule would have worked fairly well had they been intelligently directed the destruction of such a large and valuable stock not a stick of which was saved considering that the fire was originally in the rear of the main building that contained it is in we believe unparalleled in the history of the burning of any single building much sympathy is felt for mr dinwoodey the loser by the disaster |