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Image from page 94 of “Peking : a social survey conducted under auspices of the Princeton University Center in China and the Peking Young Men’s Christian Association” (1921)
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Title: Peking : a social survey conducted under auspices of the Princeton University Center in China and the Peking Young Men’s Christian Association
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Gamble, Sidney D. (Sidney David), 1890-1968 Burgess, John Stewart, b. 1883 Princeton University Center in China Young Men’s Christian Association (Beijing, China)
Subjects: Social surveys
Publisher: New York : George H. Doran Co.
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. The 578 firemen are organized into six divisions, each ofwhich is responsible for a section of the city. As Peking hasno general electrical fire alarm system, special watch towershave been erected, and from the tops of these guards are con-stantly on the lookout for fires. The fire-fighting equipmentconsists, for the most part, of old-style hand-operated enginesthat are able to throw only a small stream of water, but a highpower automobile fire truck has recently been purchased andis housed in one of the buildings near the Pei Hai or North Sea.Water is secured from the wells and also from the mains of thePeking Water China Company. Any one who has seen a fire in a Chinese city is not apt toforget it very soon. The fire department comes pulling itsengines by hand, and carrying flags in the day time or largelanterns at night. The men who are to carry water from thewells hurriedly put on the coats of the fire department, so theywill be allowed inside the lines that are quickly established by
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STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS, JUNE 4tH AND StII, 1919. Against the Luvenmieiit and the Sliantung Award. Part of a nation-widemovement.
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