The Wellington Fire

New Zealand Tablet, 25 October 1906, Page 22

The Wellington Fire

We stand mir +. . "• dow in Z fl^fl if, "l^ -^ * SmaU n th- i, » half °f '1901 (ttle pericyd:: £. t New'zeaCd Ti "f*^^:™™ \ panL the Tidy Int f f?~ io.V lnSU?rance com" by intervals of time £T „' Separated LTtHttti and space, these- vast losses . J 5 '^T T* the" Public The / dSenf^Z f^^^ B«* it is quite Z*Z 7 ™»»*ton this .week, the sum of S, • J^** 7 n9X conflafirations is concentrated in n?™^ within two or three acres of ground, toriST,^o"? ""? ?"" £m9o° th-en^create a LlrL '? t\ °' m<mng destruction that sears a w ,w * publ 'c memory- In the .same way, the easii v J^JL^L /%?™t hS °n Ameiican railroads^ y, suipasses the death-list m any battle of the ' South African war. But it creates no such impression as the less deadly but more concentrated method of severing .the partnership between soul and body. It is ?« ' ?} c 1 sy oop ' *hat dazes us» as it dazed Macf H I, 7 ' . WellinSton disaster was not aggra- -, + ?7? 7 °SS of hfe> Evea the midst, of urgent' Pf nl» tiiose most immediately concerned not alone dis- ? y+w c paniC ' but even manifested a sang- | Lol«tnat was beyond all,praise: The wooden cowshed S„• C + agO> ,and"; the oU woo^en tinder-box building in «tr?f *? y^ thoUgh ia different degrees,. strangely parts The conflagration is a. fresh warning? of ! f, s u. a »owmg old wooden fire-traps to cum- . J? c bus * hearts af <>ur cities. One other lesson *S f f :. M °. ur architects must revise their ideas of fire- - 1 buildings and go to San Francisco for instruction . " °f b^fllins flame"