Show I 1 I 1 I 1 MIGHT HAVE SAVED PROPERTY of stead on bew torte N RaU dIngs mamed blamed tor leemit reemit nua if the great sky scrapers which newtone has baa recently erected along alone broadway were the standpipe with hose connections at each floor as ite Is the rule in chicago chicag the recent fire which destroyed th the 6 home H om a insurance building in that city might airtight easily aas have bean controlled such Is the verdict ot of nm fire experts lu ju such matters who chanced to he be in chief Sw enles office one day last week and who were discussing the matter about two years ago matt benner chief Sw enles predecessor de cessor who in company with his son in law william kent commissioner of public works under mayor swift manufactured the tron iron standpipe with fire escape tried to introduce the device in new york the test was made in the presence of ex fire chief bates and the insurance men who were enthusiastic in their praise of the system but new york said she was not in the copying business the standpipe was kas a western invention anyway and worst of all it was in use in chicago why said benner when I 1 was chief of the fire department the captain of no 13 went to new york to show them the great advantages of the sliding poles we erected from the bun kroom to the main floor in the houses saving so much time wasted in descending the stairs they only laughed at him and intimated he ought to be with the other lunatics on the island they adopted the poles five years later however another gentleman spoke of the painful does new york had bad to swallow when she was forced to adopt the police patrol wagon system introduced I 1 in chicago under the elder harrison she adopted this device only when she was on the verge of insanity thinking up something that would do as well fire chief some time ago got water to the top of the masonic temple feet high with the standpipe and threw a horizontal stream over feet feel A pressure of 5 pounds was used to force the water up and pounds to throw it IL new yorks fire destroyed structure was only about feet high and new yorks fire chief bonner simply let the fire burn its way down to where his hose streams could do something with it it conformed with his published theory of handling fires in sky scrapers when they first built them chorused the fire experts |