To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir.-.-As in a malitude of counsellors there is wiedonm, allow me to add my humble mite to your treasury of knowledge. From your rep,orts ot the various fires etf recent occurrer.ce, their rapid exteasions appears to be attributable, tiOt so much to a scarcmti of water as to the delav in procuring it This tlifncuIty, I submit, might be easily obviated bv reducing the forination of the waterphigs to one princi ple, and furnishing every etgiie with a key or implement, whicl, upou arrival at the scene of necessity, mighlt be finm4eLiately emT ployed in the procurement of' water. Perhaps the meanis thus sug . ttestd, joined withi the hiDt of ioir cerrespondent in thitt day's pa- per. minii operate benefic.iall-v in faiture cases.-I am. Sir, yours, very obedientyv, J. D. ileotfora, iNov. 1, M24. ..'. An old correspondeiiit ffam Reading ha4 sent ilI the earRe sug4estion, whicl he reminds us lie sent several ye=rs ago. The suggestion appears a very good one. TO THE EDITOR 0' THE TliIES.