|
|The territory between Mitchell street |
|and the Kinnickinnic river and Reed |
|street, to the lake, containing |
|manufactories, dwellings and stores, was |
|menaced.--_Milwaukee News._ |

=5. Fire Fighting.=--Not unusually a serious fire results from the fact
that it was not checked for some reason or other during its earlier
stages. Perhaps the whole thing might have been avoided, or, on the
contrary, a big fire may be extinguished with unexpected ease or unusual
skill. In rare cases this matter of very efficient or very inefficient
fire fighting is of sufficient importance to take the first place in the
lead. For example:

| Almost total lack of water pressure is |
|blamed for the big loss in a fire started|
|by a firebug to-day in the five-story |
|factory building of Lamchick Brothers, |
|manufacturing company, 400-402 South |
|Second street, Williamsburg.--_New York |
|Mail._ |
| |
| Rotten hose, which burst as fast as it |
|was put in use, imperiled the lives of |
|more than a score of firemen to-day at a |
|blaze which swept the three-story frame |
|flat house at Third avenue and |
|Sixty-seventh street, Brooklyn, from |
|cellar to roof, etc.--_New York Mail._ |

=6. Crowd.=--Not uncommonly in the city a tremendous crowd gathers to
watch a fire and blocks traffic for hours. In the absence of other
significant incidents--death, great loss, etc.--the reporter may begin
his story with an account of the crowd present or the blockade of
traffic. Such a beginning should always be used only as a last resort
when a fire has no other interesting phase, for crowds always gather at
fires and only a very serious blocking of traffic is worth reporting.
Thus:

| Fully 15,000 persons were attracted to |
|the scene of the fire in the portion of |
|the plant of the Greenwald Packing |
|Company, Claremont Stock Yards, which was|
|discovered at 4:56 yesterday |
|afternoon.--_Baltimore American._ |
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