Show midday blaze yesterday fire broke out in tile the coal sheds of tile tho J will AVII I 1 smith store on forest F orest street during the noon loon hour yesterday and because of the dryness 0 of the timber and the abundance of waste material piled up burned fiercely lier cely the department part parti ment nent responded in just two minutes and in ili less lees than ten tell minutes had the flames subdued despite tile the fact 1 that they were shooting into the ale air sending up a tremendous column ot of black smoke the damage is only nominal to the building but the tele phone company suffered a badly charred pole several burned wires and the pole equipment completely destroy there were four tons long ot of balled hay in the shed ched which was destroyed tue the tire fire impressed the I 1 lesson ason that there is altogether too much carelessness on the part of b businessmen in dumping refuse in their back premises premises it should bo be the merchants gerchar Ws religious duty and determination dete rmina tion to carry his waste material out every day and burn it up rather than dump it in a pile who where it will become a menace to his property as well as the property adjoining in the lire fire yesterday sparks might have ignited other plies of rubbish in the business district and it if several or even two tires fires should get started in ili different places at the same time the department would have IL serious time coping with tile the situation A little prevention along these lines Is IF the best insurance that can be carried |