Complimentary.
Chief Engineer H. Clay Saxton, of the St. Louis Fire Department, received recently, a very flattering compliment from the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association, for the manner in which the members of the department guarded the building at their late Fair. The President, Julius E. Walsh, concludes his letter to the Chief as follows: “It affoids me pleasure to bear testimony to the uniform gentlemanly bearing of your men, and I desire to express to you my conviction that within my experience I have never seen a set of men more thoroughly imbued with a true spirit of duty.”
The Evening Mail, of this city, an acknowledged authority on insurance topics, prints the most complete Fire Record of any jourual in the country. Its daily list embraces the interesting points regarding every fire of any importance that occurs in the country. It is invaluable to insurance men.
The Pitlsburg riots will cost the State a good round sum in settlement of losses. According to the estimate of a local paper the claims to be paid are as follows: Railroad company, $1,500,000; freight destroy ed, $1,000,000; Keystone Hotel Company, $100,000; elevator, $150,000; Pullman Car Company, $80,000; private individuals, $100,000; total, $2,930,000.
Our Rochester correspondent speaks in extravagant terms of praise of the Holly Water Works system in use in that city. The Chicago Times, on the contrary, speaking of a fire which occurred at Hyde Park, a suburb of that city, says: “Much difficulty was experienced in securing a supply of water. The town of Hyde Parkis dependent upon the Holly system, and it was found there was not a sufficient pressure in the pipes to enable a stream to he thrown on the building. Not till 10 o’clock in the forenooD, and when the building was consumed, could a sufficient pressure be brought, aDd then not till the supply of water for private use in Hyde Park and the town of Lake adjoining had been shut off.”
