PACIFIC COAST CHIEFS IN CONVENTION.
On September 10 the fifteenth annual convention of the Pacific Coast Fire Chiefs’ association, comprising the North Pacific coast States and Western Canada, assembled at Centralia, in session, and will continue in session the rest of the week. The convention met in the morning at 9 o’clock, but immediately adjourned out of respect for Fireman John Jones, whose wife was buried in the forenoon. In the afternoon the convention was called to order by Chief I homas Watson, of Victoria. B. C. Mayor F. H. Miller delivered the address of welcome. Addresses were also delivered by Hon. F . S. Sprague, pi t si dent of the Commercial club, C ity Attorney J. R Buxton and Theodore Hoss anti others.
John S. Perry, fire commissioner of San Fran cisco, is in New York inspecting the high-pressure water system which is now being installed in that city. Mr. Perry states that he has visited the East several times in the interest of high pressure systems-and that it is the intention of the people of San Francisco to install such a system at the Golden Gate. The plan of Mr. Perry includes a 20.000,000-gal. reservoir situated at Twin Peaks, with an elevation of 665 ft.
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