However, further valuable assist-companies with their gongs, buckets, tance was at hand, if required. The and squirts, Tt looks" these public, perhaps not entirely trusting methods are still In a state of evolu-the new methods, still keep. up tion, the new ones being by no means their old fire-tighting companies. Some perfect, while the last vestiges of the: gentlemen in long: robes with colour~ former primitive methods have not fed flags, on which were embroidered been entirely sloughed off. the names of their volunteer com-T was strolling along Curio Street, panies, arrived in haste on the scene. outside the Chienmen in the Chinese They were followed by a couple of City. Tt was about six o'clock, but ancient coolies, who came staggering the curio shops were closed. Unlike along with a huge wooden most other shops in Peiping which full of water slung to a carrying-do the greater part of their business pole, And as a concession to more the evening. hours, the curio-modern ideas, some young boys @ealers close up, as soon as it gets wearing red sashes came—pushing ark. Whether this is because their: along a couple of trolleys ce ming customers do not go curio-hunting by six Kerosene tins of water. "What uso artificial light, of. whether—merely was made of this auxiliary water from excessive timidity, T_ do not supply T do not know, as I could not Kmnow, "Anyhow, the street was dark. se, whether the old-fashioned squirts and deserted, and there were scarcely were used of not, riy signs of if, Suddenly from the main street ahead, the Chienmen High Street, came the shrill blasts of the siren of a fire-engine. As if) Two Chinese Boats magic all the shop doors were Ain open and a throng of hard-working Strike Mine apprentices came rushing forth shout ing cheerfully' to each other, as they Canton, Nov. 7. ran. Imaitining that the fire would bbe in some far-way part of the town, It was reliably reported here Tai not hasten my steps. today that two Chinese boats But when I reached the entrance plying between Macao and of the side street, T was. surprised Canton struck a mine near the to see, arnly. 100 yards down the main Bocca Tigris forts yesterday, street on the opposite side, a tremen causing the Kinshan, scheduled ous blaze. Some sheds on the root to go to Canton from Hong-of a tworstoreyed building were Kong today, to postpone its blazing flerecly; they were obviously sailing—Reuter. fof wood and Burning Vike tinder; but, even s0, that fire must have been Inge some considerable time to have yot such a hold, Luckily, there was hot a breath of wind, and the flames Filipinos Urging shot straight upwards, Into the sky, while' the sparks fell Innguidly back
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