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Show IfEW FIRES IN EUROPEAN CITIES While I wa attendine the morning 1 j drill of the Central Fire Station at i I Dresden, In Saxony, the Captain i n ' comand told me that the ctly had., on the average about six alaarms of ! j fire a week. I casually remarked that; 'we had twanty-flve a day In NTew York He looked at me yvith wonder- , ment and doubt, and when I repeated 1 that we actually had between twenty and thirty alarms of fire a dav in the j borough of Manhattan alone, he threw up his hands an1 exclaimed "Thank j heaven, It Is not as bad as that here, I or my beautiful city would be destroyed'" de-stroyed'" And so we find, thanks to superior building construction, leas hurry and rush in business methods and a wholesome whole-some regard on the part of the citizens citi-zens for certain rigid laws covering the use of explosives and materials of I all kinds which usually cause fire, the lot of forelan firefighters is not as strenuous as that of his brother fire-man fire-man on this side or the water Because Be-cause of the excellent character of the buildings abroad fires bum slowly and rarely extend beond the room or floor which they start Here, on the other hand, the con-tioos con-tioos are entirely different Our fires are larger, more destructive and more frequent, compelling us to support not only the most effective, but most expensive, ex-pensive, fire departments in the world, and yet. In spite of all this, our annual fire "losses are from ten to twenty times more than those of any country in Europe. Better building laws and the universal uni-versal adoption of fire prevention ordinances or-dinances are going to change all this for IB In time. Lut as yet our annual fire losses stun the avera?e Eurojean by its enormous total Charles T Hill, In St Nicholas oo Norfolk, Neb.. Oct. 10 A special to the Dally News from O'Neill, Neb , reports a tornado near that place last night which killed three persons and did an Immense amount of damage. Ij |