Show WHO Is A I 1 IN I 1 f ME RIGHT I 1 the water company declare there was water at twenty sixth THE Sni ElEST FUSE FILSE I 1 colt coill sid f r th the controversy given t to tb th 0 V fablie for their bith both maybe eight I 1 the management of the I 1 h U 11 ice fee houa house fire seems to hare h e formed i S d a frait fal theme for discussion one oria would claim thia this and aad another that borne some statements being simply ludicrous A sensible statement was as made by a prominent business maa w who hu watched the fire from beginning to end ad lie he said aid the th chief of the department part ment may ba be incompetent and I 1 think th he be la is but why he should be blamed for no water no railway track crossings no hydrants hydra nta within 1600 1500 feet no ladders no teams with which to get all bis big material down there at on once ce is 18 more than that I 1 can grasp the city should provide more hydrants hydra nta it baa hill only 77 when it ought to have in order to compare with other places P faces the department Is to complied 0 good they need more drill log and training they aronld have more ran rung more practice at coupling more with the fire fir fighting ht facilities ficili tira of 0 each neighborhood in case hydrants h Is arants should be out ant of at order there is the making in of a good fire department part pint ment in the one now existing if properly handled 11 the water company yesterday stated that there wag was wa water t er in the twenty sixth street hydrant and bad had ben been since the tile water wila fita into the piper pi owr there vas was no tapping done in in that vicinity victa ity daring the day and a ad tiie water was never shut off the th companas comp col anys went down 0 there tb who when the leptrone t nevae was received and he be de declares blares that he turned it on and found plenty of water there mr fortier yesterday yesier day fiade the following statement it i is not true that there was no water in the hydrant dr t the fact is that the men did not know how bow to open a hydrant and it was never fully opened I 1 can explain it to yoa the upper valve is is BO so tired fixed that it takes eix six or eight turns to raise it out of its setting settings it turns quite readily for these turns then the water pressure mates makes it liardo and d I 1 to one unaccustomed ej to these hydrants it would appear aa as if it waa was turned out full this is in especially the case here with the I 1 little i atle wrench used by bit the department to open the hydrants that was undoubtedly the case at the twenty sixth street hydrant by for we found water in the pipes when we it on why apes by our man found that while the twenty tw a ny fifth street hydrant was being be used u sed it was only half hall turned on th the dep department artmont can get out quick enough bat at they know very little about couplings and hydrants hydra nta we cm can brinz bring proof that there was water in the pipes and told them BO so when they telephoned ua us about it we always report any hydrants shut off ott when he ia tapping aping the mains and would have reported this one bad had it been shut off the three men who were at the hydrant each of whom bad had turned it on monehan warner and johnson positively state that the hydrant was thrown open 0 pen as far ai as it would go then ehu down again and turned to a point where wh e re two men could not turn it aay further and there was no sign of water warner has been a fireman in this town for 17 years and ia is a veteran fire man of 20 years standing in corn com pany with two firemen the reporter visited three hydrants on twenty fifth street and had the water turned on the first hydrant sent seat oat out a big stream tream a at the second turn the second I 1 hydrant on the third turn and the third hydrant on the fira turn the second hydrant showed the water to be fearfully muddy and it took several a I 1 seconds after the third turn had been made before the water came again they declare that over half hall an hour passed from the time the hydrant was first turned on until telephone telo phon a messages bad had been sent orde orders ra issued a sued for more hose to r reach each to twenty fifth the arrival ot of t the he hose coupling the extra lengths and turning on at the twenty fifth street hydrant yet by that time there was no water in I 1 he hydrant the only explanation given to these contradictory statements is that given by bj mr gilbert that a etona stone in may have a prevented the further turning a of yf the valve in in the hydrant and that when the large water company lever was sall applied it ground the stone to pieces e and enabled the companas comp anys man to throw the hydrant wide open the regret among the majority of at the people talked to appears to be the injury of firemen when there was wag no cause for their taking any nik whatever ice lea loues lou es are made of doable double frame walla walls filled with sawdust vi when hen the fire starts ia in the interior of the walls it cincot be fought I 1 from either within or without the only thing that can be done is to I 1 quench the fire aa as it breaks out and prevent it from spreading to other property and that was certainly doner dons at the ice houe howe fire 4 I 1 several cars of material arrived yesterday for the rebuilding of the sheda sheds |