FIRE AND WATER ENGINEERING
在这个Yuletide季节面对读者面前，Fire and Water Engineering希望将其最令人心动的问候扩展到1911年。当我们在垂死的一年的傍晚停顿并回顾一步，几乎不可能承认它我们未能采用每种已知的手段，以在数千名顾客面前进行每周的事实和事件记录，这些事实和事件发生在消防和水工程范围之内。为了推动没有其他出版物假装如此彻底覆盖这一领域的说法，并没有无所不在地吹捧其优点。费用从来没有成为确保信息的威慑因素，在其判断中会增加知识或扩大仔细阅读其页面的人的想法。在这一政策上，很大程度上是由于与同一领域的任何其他日记相比，消防和水工程能够显示出更大，更广泛的分布循环。认识到这一功能，广告商过去曾自由地使用其页面展示其产品，因此使其成为市政部门更重要的嘉宾。当我们站在另一年的门槛上并冒险预测时，我们受到比以往任何时候都获得更大的保证的启发。这是由于双重原因所致 - 令人鼓舞的前景增加了光顾的前景，并通过利用自己有机会进一步改善其页面来应得的固有目的。我们已经接近了一个年龄，商人和制造商自己思考。例如，如果他们通过论点被告知，消防部门的负责人或水工程师的工程师无话可说，当要购买各自部门的设备时，制造商具有足够的敏锐度来引起 him to ignore such a theory. With liberal deference to the wisdom and business foresight of the mayor and the fire and water commissioners of every municipality, it cannot be claimed that they are, as a rule, practical men in the sense of being able to pass technical judgment. No city executive or commissioner ever takes final action upon procuring any adjunct to a fire or water department without first conferring with the chief of the fire department or the engineer of the water system. This is not only proper, but it is absolutely necessary. Neither the mayor nor the members of a commission are expected to possess technical knowledge of these apparatus, for the reason that they are elected to office from year to year, and the constant transition precludes their acquiring the knowledge that would equip them to act alone with safety. On the other hand, the chief of a fire department and the engineer of a waterworks invariably are men of broad experience, gained by years of study and practice. Without this qualification they would not be where they are. And while FIRE AND WATER ENGINEERING goes into the hands of mayors and members of commissions as well, it is more zealously used as a hand-book and guide by the chiefs and engineers who peruse its advertising pages in order to keep informed on all new appliances that are placed on the morket. With full appreciation of this fact it has been and will continue to be the purpose of this publication to present its advertisements in as artistic and attractive form as the printing art will warrant, at the same time endeavor to make the editorial section as nearly inviting as possible. With this plain heart to heart talk with our patrons, FIRE AND WATER ENGINEERING wishes all a Merry Christmas and Happy New York.
看起来整个美国的眼睛n continent were focused upon Newark as the only city where firetraps are allowed to exist. It certainly is not becoming for a newspaper to attempt to divert attention from the culpableness of its home city by pointing the finger of scorn at another. Newark differs from no other city in respect to inflammable structures or so-called firetraps. These may be found in every community, and it only requires a small mishap to prove the truthfulness of this statement. Another similitude is that Newark, like most other cities, depended too much upon its fire department and too little upon its building inspectors. This was plainly shown when one of the inspectors testified at the recent High street fire inquest that Chief Astley should have notified the inspector of the dangerous condition of the firetrap. It looks as though all the city departments were expected to contribute toward making the office of factory inspector of Newark a sinecure. It is fortunate, however, that Newark has a man at the head of its fire department who knows his duties and attends to them. It is equally deplorable that Newark has not a factory inspector who is similarly fitted for his office. But there is something doing now among the attaches of the New Jersey building department. The recent holocaust in Newark, replete with horror as it was, is having a beneficial effect in other cities. Officials whose business it is to look after fire prevention are bestirring themselves, or at least are making a feint at performance of their duties. It now behooves those “higher up” to keep their subordinates from performing any somnambulistic feats at the expense of precious lives. The perfunctory manner in which these officials perform their work is enough to condemn them and cause their summary removal. The fact that such officials must be constantly watched is a lamentable commentary on man’s inhumanity to man, and the sooner such derelicts are supplanted, the sooner firetraps will be wiped out.
