Excerpt from Report of the Superintendent of the Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph, to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: For the Year Ending October 31st, 1874 We have the most imperfect system of Fire Alarm Tele graph that has been used since the introduction of the Tele graph for this purpose. It is to-day precisely as constructed nearly fifteen years ago, with the exception of the addition of a large number of boxes, and the extension of the wires, which increases the unreliability and imperfections with which we have to contend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.