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Show DOUBLE THE DEPARTMENT. The burning of the Atlas block auu tiie de- J struction of the Central block were new notices Ito the property owners of this city that the present pres-ent fire department is only about one-third what it should be in numbers, while the apparatus for . fighting fire should be doubled at least. The Central block could have been saved from burn-I burn-I 1 ing even after the west wall of the Atlas block crushed it in falling, had there been engines to play upon it. The Salt Lake fire department has less men than any other in the Union in a city lj of this size, while many cities have double the I men to do the same work. The city should take j the same precautions that a prudent business man would under like conditions, and if it would the department and its apparatus would be doubled lj without one hour's unnecessary delay. |