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Show It iff said that the Baltimore authorities are contemplating the limitation of buildings hereafter here-after to four or five stories, because in their great fire, the sky-scrapers proved to be veritable up cast shafts for the flames to roar up and scatter in all directions, and instead of proving a defense against Are were really flre-spreaders. We suspect there will be a revulsion against Very tall buildings after a while. Possibly a mighty catastrophe may be necessary to change the present trend, but on prudential grounds it surely looks like tempting Providence to huddle two or three thousand people into one building with the certain knowledge that should a fire start anywhere around the elevators there would be a holocaust. There is ground enough for all the world's people to live upon without encroaching encroach-ing upon the sky. |