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Show A MAN has to open liis eves pretty wide to take in everything at the Worlds K.iir. It' tin sighl- SOi I- WlHilll Spend two minutes before, be-fore, each object at tin1 Kair it would take h'u 11 thirty-two years to make t lie rounds. Phoiia ni.v an amount aggregating between $2,000 and i.OOO :s paid out yearly for fire iicliranee by the people of lirighani City. A reduction of twenty to I w enty-live per cent, on this sum would be something like half a thousand dollars. Quite an item. Now prior to the construction of our excellent ex-cellent water system we were assured assur-ed that its completion would result in this 20 to 2o per cent, reduction in our rates of lire insurance. Tin-: Bi'ui.Kii used this as one of its arguments in favor of building the water works. We believe that only in a few cases was fault found with the prevailing rates nf insurance in-surance before the water works were built. But naturally enough, when our citizens had been assured of a considerable reduction by local and traveling representatives oftbe insurance companies and also saw the effectiveness of the new fire department and water system in coping with flames it seemed no more than fair and reasonable that a reduction of the old rates be made, rf the rales were not uncommonly low before wc got the water works, which dues not seem at all probable, then reason and fairness call for a reduction. |