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POST OFFICE CHANCES.
The Advertiser announces that
Hon. II. M. Whitney has resigned
tho position of Postmaster-General,
and that Hon. J. L. Kaulukou will
take his place at 9 o'clock to-morrow
morning. This information, wc
learn by enquiry of the Postmaster
General, is incorrect, inasmuch as
he has not resigned, but has been
removed by the Minister of the In
terior without cause. For two years
past the public havo been in con
stant expectation of Mr. Whitney's
oillcial head being demanded, so
as to gratify tho spite of tho Gov
ernment nod make room for one
of their henchmen clamorous for
a berth. Thus another faithful pub
lic servant, who had maintained the
most agreeable relations with the
public, is sacrificed to the vieioua
partisan principle governing the
Hawaiian civil service. It is im
possible to estimate the degree of
efficiency characterizing Mr. Whit
ney's tenure of ofllcc, for he was so
handicapped by a Ministry esteem
ing the gratification of political
rancor above the welfare of tho
public, that improvements involving
the most trifling outlay were syste
matically refused to be made, just
because the oillcial recommending
them was not in harmony with the
ruling clique at the Privy Council
board, or elsewhere that he was not
legally or legitimately under the
mailed hands. While it would be
unfair, perhaps, to judge the new
incumbent at the head of this, one
of the most important services of the
kingdom, before experience of his
administration of the ofllcc, yet it is
not too much to say that his ante
cedents, as a violent and unscrupu
lous partisan of the reactionary
party the champion of every
iniquitous and retrograde measure
attempted to be forced through the
last Legislature, a deserter from the
popular cause of clean and independ
ent government are such that only
a thorough purging of the qualities
that have of late made his reputa
tion unsavory, will enable the man
to fill the important post with any
degree of satisfaction to the public
or honor to himself.
A significant point, in connection
with this change of Postmaster-General,
is to be found in this morning's
Advertiser. Under the heading of
"Suggestions," there is a series of
paragraphs, written in the style, if
not the spirit, of the recent "Cam
paign Notes." These semi-oillcial
editorialettes, among other recom
mendations of public improvements,
contain the following:
"Among other suggestions re
garding tho Post Ofllce is tho ad
visability of increasing the public
convenience there by having a
delivery and a receiving window.
The present arrangement is far from
satisfactory. It occasions great
delay and unnecessary crowding on
steamer days on the outside, and
certainly impedes the dispatch of
business on the inside. There
should, if possible, be a division of
labor within the Post Ofllcc and at
the windows."
This is uttered with all the unctu
ous blandness of an original idea
striking the consciousness of its
modest author. Yet it is notorious
that the public press has been cry
ing out for these identical improve
ments, and the retiring Postmaster
General has repeatedly asked for
them, within tho past few years.
Although .these improvements, with
others not mentioned in the above
suggestive "suggestion," would not
liavo cost a tithe of the buying
and grading of tho now "Palace
Square" lauded, by the way, in
the "Suggestions" yet the latter
far less important' work has been
given precedence of execution by
our wonderfully paternal Govern
ment. Read in the light of these
facts, the "suggestion" in question
lias a suggestiveness of political
craft and ofllcial hypocrisy about it.
In addition to the information
giyen by the Advertiser, regarding
changes in the Post Oflice, wo learn
that Mr. Fred. Wundenberg has
been appointed Deputy Postmaster.
Apart from the true inwardness of
this gentleman receiving the ofllce,
after it had been promised, posi
tively, to another by piomotion, the
appointment will not likely bo quar
relled with by the public. Mr.
"WundcDbcrg is a man of great
energy and no mean business capa
city, having withal u thoiough
Jcnowledgc of tho Islands. If bis
activity and intelligence are given
fair scope, he may save the depart
ment from tho incompetent manage
ment that might otherwise with
much reason be feared.
WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.
Confronting the hundreds of per
sons who strolled yesterday through
the burnt district was a large poster
stuck on telephone posts what was
left of them and other conspicuous
positions, announcing the perma
nent repairing or the re-erection of
wooden buildings in the burnt dis
trict to be strictly prohibited, and
also that no buildings except those
of stone, brick, iron or other fire
proof material will be permitted;
furthcr,that surveys are in progress,
'the results of which will be pub
lished as soon as practicable. The
document is signed by the Minister
of the Interior. Twelve feet from
one of the notices referred to, and
in full view of it, the first new
fabric, after the fire, was in an ad
vanced stage of construction, the
square frame being up and one side
boarded in. This will, of course,
produce a collision between the pro
prietor of the new structure, which
is not a large one, being only 12 by
1C feet or thereabout, and the Gov
ernment. The question of the juris
diction of the Minister of the In
terior will probably require a de
cision of the Supreme Court to
settle. Should it be decided that
the Minister has power to prevent
private property owners from build
ing what they please, when they
please, and how they please, on
their own lots, the result will in
volve considerable hardship to many
who are naturally anxious to get
back under their own roofs as
soon as possible. But on the other
hand, providing the Minister's pro
clamation is ruled ultra vires, or
illegal, the inevitable result will be
the speedy re-erection of a con
glomeration of shanties of a more
heterogeneous class than those
wiped off the pago of Hawaiian
architecture on Sunday evening.
Not only will the gingerbread archi
tecture of Maunakca, Meek and
King streets spring, Sphinx-like,
from its ashes, but, the probabilities
are that buildings which might have
been tolerable, had it not been for
their surroundings, will be quite
conspicuous for their absence, as no
owner of a building of any preten
sions will think of re-building in the
middle of a new forest of flrctraps.
The costly lesson of the 20th may
then, of course, be set down as
necessary for rehearsal at some
future day.
The opportunity has come, and,
though it lias come unsought, it is
none the less indispensable that it
be improved. The substitution of a
respectable city with ample thor
oughfares and decent streets for
miserable tunnels and alleyways is
the plain duty of tho day, and noth
ing but stupidity and wretched narrow-mindedness
will ignore its
claims. That the Chinese have been
permitted in the past to crowd to
gether, as tho event has proved, for
their own ruin, renders it all the
more imperative upon the public to
prevent their doing so again. AH
persons who are unablo to see be
yond Jthe limit of their own present
and petty personal interests will
doubtless bo ready to offer every
possible resistance to the interposi
tion of cither the Government or
their fellow-citizens on behalf of tho
permanent stability and safety of
Honolulu, the only mid-ocean city
of the Western Hemisphere. It
was always a source of gratification
to residents who had any respect
for themsolves or their surround
ngs, that tho wretched jumbles of
architecture which are now repre
sented by blackened ruins, were
outside of the usual lines of obser
vation of transient visitors. Pas
sengers in transit between America
and the Australasian colonies were
usually conducted to and from tho
Hotel, through Fort street, and
when conducted " through the
city," were shown tho royal palace,
Aliiolani Hale, the Opera House,
the Library and Y. M. C. A. build
ings, and perchance Waikiki and
the Pall ; but who ever thought of
conducting a visitor through King
or Maunakca streets? Thousands
of such Hying visitois havo thus left
theso shores carrying with thorn Im
pressions of a fine mid-ocean city
with buildings of approved modern
pattern.
One of the most painful duties of
fair journalism, in present circum
stances, is that of discovering to
readers abroad tho unsavory fact
that sixty acres of pestilential slums
wero cleaned up within the city
limits ; for the execution of a sani
tary purgation of such vast dimen
sions will be a less startling piece of
news to man' than that the condi
tions lequiting it actually prevailed.
The only creditable sequel to the
narrative of last Sunday afternoon's
doings, that can be presented to the
world abroad, is the announcement
that a new era in tho sanitary and
architectural history of Honolulu
has been inaugurated.
The proclamation of the Minister
of the Interior, whether legal or not,
certainly expresses the sentlment9
of every resident in sympathy with
the progress and stability of the
city at home and the certainty of a
well-merited reputation abroad. And
provided the laws nro not sufficient
to meet the case, it is fortunate that
tho Legislative Assembly will shortly
be in session; and if that body
possesses a moiety of tho calibre
supposed to be an inherent quality
of law-making minds, enactments
bearing upon this matter may very
speedily be framed. As to the rela
tions existing between the functions
of Government and the rights of
private property, it is an admitted
principle of law in other countries
that no citizen may be deprived of
his property or of any part of it
without a just equivalent; and iu
tho case of railroad building and
other works for the use of the pub
lic, lands arc taken and buildings
removed, the proprietors being com
pensated on carefully appraised
valuations ; and the same principle is
recognized in the courts here. Or
if it be necessary to the re-building
of the burnt district on a more
solid architectural basis and under
reformed sanitary conditions,ifor the
Government to take possession of
the whole area by purchase from the
proprietors and leaso holders, there
is no doubt that the appropriation
of a liberal sum from the public
funds for the purpose would be a
welcome measure. And it is the
manifest duty of the public to sup
port the Government in carrying to
a successful issue any reasonable
measure that may be adopted to
meet the emergency. Every senti
ment of partisan feeling should be
suppressed. If the debris of a half
annihilated city is not sufficient to
stir up public opinion to a due ap
preciation of the greatness of the
interests involved, and to fix a
determination to forego all minor
considerations, then there is little
prospect that the future will be any
improvement on the past. Union is
strength, and union has great possi
bilities within its reach at the pre
sent time. Whether the opportu
nity forced upon the attention of the
people of Honolulu by tho alarm of
Sunday afternoon is to be won or
lost, remains to be written cither in
congratulations over a renovated
city or in vain regrets over a resus
citated town of shanties.
In addition to the news from Wash
ington, which we were enabled to give
in the few minutes left us after the
arrival of the steamer on Saturday,
the information comes direct that the
Senate Committee on Foreign Rela
tions has been at work on a new treaty
between the United States and tho
Hawaiian Government, and actually
reported up the draft, unanimously,
with an argument for its adoption.
Resides maintaining the commercial
features of the old treaty, it grants
the United States the exclusivo and
entire use of Pearl Bay, with the
right to establish there a coaling sta
tion and shipyard. This proposal in
volves the Hawaiian Government in
one of tho very gravest questions
that the kingdom has ever encounter
ed. To accept it is to abdioate a
measure of independence, as well as
to assume a share of the risks of
America's wars, almost as great as
that of any Stato in the Union. To
reject it is tantamount to waiving the
advantage of American alliance, if
not oven inviting tho covetous eyes
of European powers perhaps invok
ing a deadly international struggle
for possession of this strategic posi
tion, without a duplicate iu the
PACific,
A DELUGE OF FIRE.
Tho Greatest Conflagration over
Known In Honolulu Thirty Acres
of Mmoklng Itttlnn Chinatown
Wiped Away Hanltatlon Extra
ordinaryThe Nluras Cleansed A
Fight with niacins Kerosene by a
Ilerolo Flro Brigade 7,000 People
dihonscd IjOsn SI ,800,000.
What has long been feared by
some, and considered a certain event
by others, has happened. The Chi
nese quarter of Honolulu has been
devastated by a fire, thut, gaining
headway in the dense aggregation of
wooden buildings, was quickly be
yond control and sweeping in all
directions. Practically all of China
town proper has been involved in u
sudden and vast conflagration. With
its narrow alloys and dark, unwhole
some courts and hovels; its pictur
csquo ugliness and interesting Orien
tal features; its immense traffic, on
largo and small scales, legitimate) and
otherwise; its social institutions, of
good and bad repute, it has been
wiped almost completely off tho city
plot. A large amount of valuable
property belonging to people of the
European and Hawaiian races has
been obliterated at the same time
within and on the borders of China
town. Below will bo found particu
lars of this overshadowing event, as
full and accurate as possible under
the circumstances.
OltlUIN OF THK HUE.
Sunday, April 18th, 1880 will
ever be mcnioiablo in the annals of
Honolulu for this great fire. A
few minutes before 4 o'clock
the fire started in a Chinese cook
hoiiBe on, the corner of Hotel street
and Smith's lanu. It was produced
accidentally by the owner of the
premises in lighting his fire for
cooking. Some Chinese ran from
the spot, by way of Meek street, to
ward the Police Station, shouting an
alarm. Officer McKcaguc ordered
the Station bell to ho rung, which
was done with vigor. A general
alarm quickly followed from all the
engine houses. China Engine Com
pany was tho first to reach the
scene. At the stint a few buckets of
water would havo quenched the
flames, but the Chinese denizens of
the neighborhood, in teiror of loMiig
their all, paid no attention to the
flaming house, but devoted all their
activity and energy to saving tho
contents of their shops and tene
ments. Although not a breath of
wind stirred, the inflammablo nature
of surrounding buildings invited the
flames, and quicker than can be told
the fire was leaping from roof to roof,
gliding along verandahs, entwining
itself about pillars and posts, fes
tooning doors and windows, and
darting its fangs into every corner
and cranny where a sure hold could
be obtained. In the calm the smoke
rose iu a vast olunio, mingled with
tongues of flame, high into the air,
showing the entire population of the
city and suburbs that a formidable
firo had started. Both thorough
fares from the starting point were
soon lanes of fire, quickly extending
themselves into other streets.
P1100KESH OF THE FIRE.
By 5 o'clock the fire had spread
along Hotel street near Maunakea,
and the fine three story building, of
Sun Hang Far Co., corner of Mauna
kea and Hotel streets, was enveloped
in flames. It was evident by this timo
that the fire was beyond control. Tho
flames fiom this structure ignited tho
Hop Chong Market and Hing Kee
Laundry on tho opposite side of tho
street, which were soon ablaze.
From this corner, it inarched steadily
forward in opposite directions towards
Beretania and King streets, tho fire
men fighting it at every stop, but the
odds were against them. At tho
same time, the flames kopt steadily
advancing towards Nuuanu and
Beretania street corner, taking pos
session of a lot of small wooden
buildings in the rear of Love's bakery
and tho storo formerly occupied by
Hollistcr & Co. Theso buildings
being of brick and stone proved ex
cellent towers of defenco to tho
opposite side of tho street. Tho
Hollister building within was a great
burning cauldron, bursting out occa
sionally in fierco jets round tho iron
shutters. A vacant lot between this
and tho bakery proved a valuable
neighbor to that establishment, tho
bakery suffering but little damage,
being at work again next morning.
Tho well-directed exertions of tho
firemen, aided by a number of
active citizens, among whom wero
noticed ox-Marshal Parke, Mr. J. A.
Hassingcr and Mr. F. W. Damon,
wore crowned with success in arresting
tho conflagration's further, march in
this direction.
At the same hour, 5 o'clock, Meek
and Maunakea streets were blazing
on both sides, and tho forward, march
of tho flames was making steady pro
giess, being then about halfway
down Meek, towards King street.
On Maunakea streot, tho American
House, at 5 :20, was a mass of flame,
On tho opposite side of tho street, a
couple of warehouses were being
rapidly consumed, . giving forth a
series of loud explosions as tho oil
and other inflammablo stock within
weio reached by the devouring ele
ment. It was becoming more and
more evident every minute that
unless further progress was soon
arrested in this direction, tho Kau
makapili church wbb doomed. Sug
gestions wero urged by tho Bulletin
reporters and other spectators to
prominent persons supposed to bo in
authority to make a gap ahead of tho
firo by demolishing a few of tho small
buildings on tho river side, after
which the firemen and other workers
would havo their hands free to pre-
vent tho flames getting bold of a long
row of two-story buildings on the
Waikiki sido and which extended
clear back to Beretania opposito tho
church, but the invariable answer
was " I havo no authority." At this
juncture, His Majesty the King ac
companied by Captain Hayloy walked
round tho corner, and at once took
in tho situation, and gave orders
forthwith to tear down the structures
referred to, and the job was done.
About half an hour later, tho tug of
war hero reached a climax. A body of
men on the top and within the build
ing at tho end of the row already
mentioned, were teuring tho fabric
to pieces, while the hosemen on the
opposite sido surrounded by the
blistering heat wore playing upon tho
flames with a steady stream. Tho
firo fiend was happily baffled in the
strugglo, and tho conflagration at
this point was under control.
All this timo, tho conflagration
was rapidly spreading in other
directions. Maunakea, Meok and
Nuuanu streets were all but cleaned
out.
, King street, by C o'clock, presented
an awful scene. The flumes, having
marched down, in three solid, double
columns by Maunakea, Meek and
Nuuanu streets, raged on both the
seaward and mountain sides of King,
all tho way from Maunakca to Moss
man's corner. Great volumes of
smoke, in pink, purple, orange, black
and yellow rolled skyward, while,
in every direction, columns of
flame and showers of sparks con
tributed to tho advancing shades of
evening a lurid and teirihle glare.
From tlio upper rear verandah of tho
Sailor's Home, a fair view of the
whole scene was obtained. Tho
flames, from the burning Anchor
Saloon rose high in tho air; a body of
men were at work desperately trying
to demolish the building on the
corner of Nuuanu and King streets,
occupied by Wolfe &. Co., grocers,
when, on the opposite corner, a dense
grey cloud of smoke covered tho roof
of the Chinese store. The Chinese
store was in a few minutes a mass of
blazing timbers. Wolfe's storo was
at once ignited and axemen and
others, engaged in tearing it down,
werediiven ofl', and the building soon
met the fate of the day. Adjoining
this was a fine brick building, the
Merchant's Exchange, part of which
was occupied by tho Merchant's Ex
change Saloon. Windows, doors and
all other removable woodwork wero
torn out, and flung into the street.
By this means, the building was
saved, and tho adjoining store of
Castle & Cooke received but little
damage. However, in case of emer
gency, Messrs. Castle & Cooko bad
lemovcd all powder and inflammablo
stock from the premises. Tho Police
Station was now enveloped in flame
from tho ground to tho cupola. The
officials had, early in the progress of
the lire, removed tho prisoners from
tho incmises, as well as all records of
value, leaving the stock of opium,
confiscated from timo to timo, to be
smoked out by the fire fiend. How
ever, tho old Station, where many
a woful tale was told ; where Judge
Bickerton daily sat and frowned on
the inebriates arraigned before him,
and where McKeaguo gracefully re
posed with his feet on tho window
sill, will not disappear in oblivion, for
Mr. J. Williams, on the morning be
fore tho firo photographed tho build
ing and the ofllcers grouped in front.
At precisely 6:57, the bell and cupola
tumbled into the blazing debris.
The interior of the Chinese Club
House, the grand opening of whioh
was reported in tho Bulletin on the
third of February, was being licked up
by the flames, its iron shutters next
morning presenting a sadly warped
and battered appearance. From the
Anchor Saloon to tie Bethel Vestry,
the blaze rose upward in a mighty
volume, and .was bent over in a
threatening manner towards tho roof
of the Sailors' Homo, tbreo stories
high. At this stage, the old historic
Bethel church around which clustered
many sacred associations of tho past
and the present, wus given up for
lost. Tho movables wero quickly
taken in charge by friendly hands,
and by 8 :30 o'clock all that was left
of this grand landmark in tho history
of Hawaiian civilization was tho baro
stone walls of tho lower half of tho
building. On tho Bethel and King
street corner, tho shop occupied by,
S. M. Jonhson as a harness and sad
dlery storo was torn down, and also
C. C. Coleman's blacksmith and
machine shop, on the opposito sido
of King street. Tho equipments and
lease of this shop were advertised to
have been sold at auction, Monday.
Several buildings had been pulled
down, at other points, during the
evening,
From the Anchor Saloon, the firo
entered tho brick and cement store
of Wing Wo Tai, and was thenco
communicated to tho largo three
story brick building of Wing Wo
Chan. With tho burning of the
Bethel Church and the Wing Wo Tai
and Wing Wo Chan buildings, the
crisis of tho conflagration wuh reach
ed. It was an hour of teniblo sus
pense. Merchant and Foit streots
wero in imminent danger. Thirty
minutes would decide whether only
th ChincBO quarters or tho wholo
city of Honolulu would next morn
ing bo a weird wilderness of charred
and smoking ruins.
Tho phenomenally perfect calm
which had pi o ailed all the evening
now changed to a barely peicoptiblo
southwest bieee, turning tho flames
and flying fragments in tho direction
of the quarteis aheady hopolcstly on
firo. Sovcral umbrageous giants, iu
tho rear of the Bethel Church lot, in
terposed their widesprcadiug arms,
botwoen tho flames and tho two-story
fabric behind tho Post OJUco on ono
ido of Bethel street, and tho Sailors'
Homo on tho other. Connecting
Bheds were speedily torn down by tho
British tars witli axc3 and hawser,
aided by a body of tho housohold
troops, firemen and others. The
Punabou College boys, with a num
ber of tho sailors and oitizons, set to
work on Mr. W. E. Herriok's shop
with buckets of water from the tank
on the premises for supplying tho en
gine of the machino shop, and thus
did good service in confining tho fire
to the opposito side of Bethel street.
Captuln Alington stood on a table
opposite Castle it Cooke's during the
fire, issuing outers to his British
boys. When thiougb there, ho
started on the, double quick, followed
by his men bearing tho hawser,
aciosB through the sea of fire in tho
rear of tho Bethel, to pull down tho
shed on tho lower side of Wing Wo
Chan's. A number of tho oflkerB
and marines got on tho top of tho
shed and wouldn't como down
until tho shed fell under them. Tho
Wing Wo Chun building, stocked
with a ship's cargo of goods, burned
internally like the crater of a vol
cano, while explosions from burning
kerosene soupded like discharges
from a battery of artillery. Happily
for the city, the conflagration did not
get across Bethel street or into tho
Sailors' Homo building, and the cris's
had passed in safety so far as Fort,
Merchant and Queen streets wero
concerned.
A hard fought battlo was main
tained for three long hours, up to
o'clock, in the vicinity of the Foun
dry. Only the outbuildings of this
establishment were destroyed. Mean
while, the flames were working along
King street, on both sides, towards
tho bridge. The long rows of two
story shops, nearly all Chinese,
closely packed together, presented a
most inviting Held for the opera
tions of the fire fiend. From tho
foundry to the bridge, lay one of the
worst areas, from a sanitary point of
view, in tho city. Dwelling houses-,
pig-sties, privies, fowl yardB, cess
pools and accumulations of all sorts
of rofuso wero huddled together with
a degree of ingonuity that was simply
wonderful. This formed tho princi
pal part of tho ureas exploicd somo
months ago by a representative of tho
Bulletin under convoy of a medical
man, and described at that time.
By 9 o'clock, all that was left of it
was a field of ashes, firebrands and a '
grove of rapidly fulling timbers.
At 11 :20 precisely, tho wall of the
last building, on the seaward side,
next the bridge, fell in; tho second
last house diiectly across tho street
being then well ignited. These two
houses, strange to stay, wero saved ;
and next morning stood, in grim isola
tion, on tho corner of full thirty acres
of a black waste of smoking debris.
Tho number of persons, mado
houseless by this terrible calamity, is
variously stated from 5,000 to 8,000.
THK BRITISH SAILORS.
Tho gaps mado by the tearing
down of buildings were effected by
the assistance of detachments of sail
ors and marines from H. B. M.'s
steamships Heroine and Satellite,
some of whom wore ashoro on leave,
and others had been sent from tho
ships immediately on tho outbreak of
tho firo. Tho jolly naval heroes
worked with tremendous energy and
enthusiasm, and their splondid order
and discipline caused their efforts to
tell. At whatever point their services
were engaged, results wero at once
apparent.
the fire Companies.
According to the arrangements of
the Fire Department, two of the
four companies are placed on active
duty, in rotation, each month, and
are required to be first at a fire, the
other companies being in reserve un
til called. Nos. 2 and 5 have their
turn this month, and were first to
respond to the alarm, the volunteer
boys of No. 2 being first to' get
water on the fire. Nos. 1 and 4
responded promptly when the whole
forco was called out. It is highly
creditable to the vigilant efficiency
of the Survey Engineer, Mr. J. C.
White, who has supervision of the
Arc engines and apparatus, that
every engine, hose reel, and hose
was in perfect trim and ready for
instantaneous service. Each engine
is furnished with the usual comple
ment of axes, but when it became
apparent that buildings would need
to be torn down, and that the ordi
nary supply of axes was insufficient
for the quantity of chopping to be
done, His Excellency Minister Gu
lick of the Interior Department,
purchased $0G0 worth of axes, crow
bars and hammers, and gave them
out with orders to use them subject
to the direction of tho Chief Engi
neer. Engine No. 1, with Mr. Alex.
Flohr, engineer, nnd Mr. James
Iliton, stoker, was first placed at
tho corner of King and Maunakea
streets, where she got 100 lbs.
water pressure to tho square inch on
tho pump. Driven from there, after
an hour's hard fightiog, by tho ad
vance of the flames, the engine was
moved down to Ames's Wharf, near
tho Fish Market, and took water
from the bay. From this position,
two streams wero played, through
1,500 feet of hose, towards King
street bridge, and 800 feet to tbe
bulldtngs in the rear of tho foundry,
their efforts being crowned witbj
success in this direction, by saving.
tho foundry from destruction. In,
this fierco light, lasting for several!
hours, the firemen's efforts wero
ably seconded by tho employees of
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