fire record for last year the fact that when a servant be comes master a cruel foe Is suddenly do developed V eloped is attested by the dreadful dio die adful havoc and loss of life occa occasioned boned by fire in the ole united states within the 12 months covered by a summing up of those these I for 1906 this recoil shows that neaily lives lost and more than worth of property was des destroy troA id by fire dur ing that in no other country in the world Is the fire loss in bulk or pro rata anywhere near our own last year owing to the devastating fire thit fol followed lomed the earthquake in san rian cisco this loss was in great excess of the but the average for to some years has been a year