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to account for the movement. Whether 
the spongy soil simply settles, or escapes 
laterally into the sea, remains to be 
determined, and the determination will 
he a matter of importance, at least to 
the owners of buildings on the water¬ 
front. 
PITTSBURGH SQUATTERS IN JOBOATS 
A FTER years of unquestioned ob- 
^ servance of rights of squatter 
sovereignty, the occupants ol the 
river-front “joboats” have yielded to 
the inevitable. The amphibious struc¬ 
tures have clung to the shores ol the 
•three rivers like great barnacles. Their 
owners and occupants were free from 
the tax-gatherer, and to live in a joboat 
implied an extremely light drain on the 
purse. It is true that there existed a 
fluvial tax, represented in the trouble 
given the joboat by the river, but that 
was more than offset by the advantages 
possessed. By taking advantage of a 
big river, the joboater secured a 
position well out of the stream, and 
occasionally far from its margin. There 
he became part of his surroundings, and 
in due time the boat lost many of its 
characteristics as such, and became a 
house. Trees shaded its flat roof, and 
vines clambered about its doors and 
windows. This lasted until a rise 
greater than the one which placed it 
among houses took place. Then damp 
trouble came. The cellar of the joboat 
was certain to leak like a basket after 
its months of remoteness from water, 
and the river invaded this part of the 
boat, and forced the occupants above 
to abandon their home. This trouble 
over, the craft settled again upon its 
firm supports, giving shelter to its owner 
and his generally numerous family. 
—Pittsburgh Bulletin. 
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THE OWNER NOT LIABLE FOR ACCI¬ 
DENTS TO FIREMEN 
OW far the owner of a building is 
liable for injuries to firemen who 
fall into an elevator-well when entering 
the building to extinguish a fire has 
been settled by two decisions from two 
courts in different States. In one—a 
recent case— that of Beehler vs. Daniels, 
Rhode Island, 27 D. R. A. 512, the 
liability of the owner is denied, the 
ground of the denial being that, as the 
owner did not invite the firemen to enter 
the burning building, the latter, doing 
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