By BUD FISHER
YEH, IT'S A GAS LEAK!
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'FRISCO LESSONS WHEN AN HELPING LONDON
Lessons learned by San Francisco in rebuilding after the earthquake and fire of 1906 have been passed to British officials studying the problems of bomb-wracked London.
Mayor Angelo J. Rossi told the American State Department how the city was restored from ruin
NEW YORK HOTEL HELPS SAVOY STAFF
SYMPATHY WITH THE EM- PLOYEES OF THE SAVOY HOTEL, LONDON, WHO HAVE SUFFERED THROUGH ENEMY ACTION HAS RESULTED IN THE STAFF OF THE HOTEL PIERRE, NEW YORK. SUB- SCRIBING £250.
AIRMAN IS "CHEESED"
As the R.A.F. expands so does its vocabulary. Here are some
and chaos in response to a request more phrases for the collector of County Council.
from W. G. Jackson of the London unusual idioms.
The effort of rebuilding a city as If you are so unfortunate as to sible was nearly fireproof as was then pos- be crossed in love or to receive stressed in Mayor a severe reprimand from a senfur Rossi's report. He told how ex-officer, then the proper way to de-
the debris,scribe your state perts went through
is to say that giving free advice to those who "you have been shot down in
had started to rebuild while the flames." City sill was smoking.
Foremost in Bre protection, Mayor Rossi reported, is a $5,718,- |000 high-pressure auxiliary water supply system to protect the eight square miles comprising the most congested part of the pre- sent City.
When
fore- the experts who cast the weather report "Future outlook unsettled" the pilots pre- for to call the outlook simply "Ropey."
If you have some inside in- formation then you call it the "Real Gen." If the news is still more exclusive then it is the "Pukka Gen."
This system includes two reser- voirs of 1,250,000 gallons totai capacity on eminences of the City, which ordinarily are filed from a still higher reservoir but The origin of the word “Gen" which, in
can emergency,
be is doubtful. It may be short for supplied with salt water from the "genius," it may come from Pacific.
"genuine" or alternatively, from "general information."
Breakage of mains by the carthquake was onc calise of the rapid spread of the fire that People who obstruct you are followed, The
bind" and from present system called "u
is designed, Mayor Rossi recomes the verb "to bind." ported, Bo there will be a
this
The cheque will be handed over to Sir George Reeves-Smith, man- minimum chance of breakage in There are three degrees of de- aging 'director of the Savoy by the mains.
jection. The first is the stage of Mr. Bertram N. Cruger, London Under each of 135 downtown being "browned off," the second representative of the British War street intersections is a 75,000-of being "brassed off," and the Relief Society of America. It was gallon cistern filled with water, third, which means that there is stated at the Savoy that 40 per Even though the mains might no hope for you, of being "com- cent.
employees of their
have break or the system otherwise pletely cheesed." suffered loss through bomb dam-, fail, the congested district still age.
would have water to fight flames.
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A beginner in any job is called "an Erk," a contraction of "air- craftman."
THEY MUST FIRE-WATCH
Fire-watching is to be made compulsory in many parts of Kent and Sussex because there are not suf- ficient volunteers to do the job properly.
The places affected under an order to take effect immediately, are;-
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The non-country boroughs of Chatham, Dartford, Deal, Dover, Gillingham, Grave- send, Hythe, Maidstone, Margate. Queenborough, Ramsgate, Roches- ter, Sundwich, Tenterden and Tunbridge Wells. The urban dis- tricts of Ashford, Broadstairs and St. Peter's, Herne Bay, Northfleet, Sheerness, Swancombe and Ton- |bridge...
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