WANTED—INSTRUCTION IN LOGIC.
"BRIEF, but most pointed and convincing” is the verdict of the New York Tribune in a recent letter from Francis M. Moore on the Ramapo question. In this pronouncement Mr. Moore re-threshes a vast amount of old straw, but fails to extract from it a single grain of corn, or to bring out one new fact that bears even remotely on the matter. All he does is to quote from the official reports of the New York fire department to the effect that the whole amount of water used at fires in New York (not including Brooklyn or the boroughs of Queens or Richmond) during the last four years was only 202,605,495 gallons of which 75,687,260 gallons or a little over two-thirds was river water. From these figures Mr. Moore and the editor of the Tribue argue thus:
The Ramapo cry is that more water is needed for fire protection:
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