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The LATE TERRIBLE FIRE IN PITTsBuRGH-OR-
GAMzATIoN OF FIRE CoMPANIEs.-Through this
whole community, the late awful calamity which
has befallen the city of Pittsburgh has excited the
deepest sympathy. New York has had its bitter
experience OF similar misfortune. and the feeling
OF commiseraton for the s'iron city," in its present
most melancholy condition, is here intense and uni
versal. We trust thai some active measures will
be at once adopted tor giving practical expression
to this feeling ofsympathy, and that all that bene
violence and charity can do will be done in order
to alleviate the distress into which very many Of
the sufferers in Pittsburgh must have been preci-
plated. Happily the ravages OF this great fire
were confined in great measure to those classes
who are comparatively able to bear the loss, but
many Of the poor have also suffe ed, and multi
tudes will be thrown out OF employment for cou
siderable tine 10 come.


There Is another aspect in which it is Proper 10
regard this cal5iniy Il has admonished the corpc.
rate auth rites of all the cities and towns in the
Interior, to effect complete organization OF the
hre departments in their several Jurisdictions There
canano' be any doubt that had tne fire companies
If Pittsburgh been thoroughly and Efficiently Oh
gauized, the ravagts If The fi.e might have be en-
greatly restricted. In this clty are very glad "a
b. able to say tha hs FIRE department has az length
been brought to a state # very ,ffcleat orsaniza-
ten. The abuses IT Tie system mas been veiy
much abhted, aud Inc activity, the zeal, prompts.
iude and means # tie fre companies cannot be
spoken # in too high commentator We had II,
other day strlking illustration OF The tru of these
remarks, Within some minute sattpr the alarm OF
fire in Elizabeth street, tour hose compsnes and
three engines were on the spot, and in few
minutes mere an adsqua,e force were the
ground. This fire originated in building eur
rounded by cabinet makers shops, sosP.boiler's
aud leather dressers' establishments, and whole
streets of frame buildings. high wind too was
blowing at the time, and had not our fire depart
ment been we'll organized, the destruction OF pro-
perty must have been immense.


Let this awful lesson, then, not be lost upon the
municipal authorities Of all cities and towns which
do not possess fully organized and efficient fire
department.