Show 1 fire loss in ln united states I 1 I 1 if one could imagine all the build i ings destroyed by fire in the united states in I 1 i a year arranged along on ona P highway each building occupying a lot 65 feet wide the highway would exter extend id from yiew new york to chicago and the buildings would line it on I 1 each side such ch Is the calculation of the department of interior furthermore a person traveling this scene of I 1 desolation would pass in every thousand housand feet a ruin from which an injured person hns aseen taken auevery at every three quarters of a I 1 mile he would could encounter I 1 I 1 6 counter the re remains of a a human being who had bad been burned fa to death per for years it is s estimated the value of actual property annually consumed by fire in this country reaches and another sum sun of about like proportions is spent for the maintenance of fire departments waterworks water works insurance premiums etc to greater losses cleveland plain dealer |