Show D EVERY V ERY Y YEAR EAR in the united states fire consumes property valued at over half a billion dollars it is an impossibility for imagination to appreciate adequately the magnitude of such a waste A recent news item adopts the excellent method of driving home the lesson by practical example it says with five hundred million dollars a four hundred mile paved road could be built at a cost of a mile and a house containing 2000 worth of furniture erected every feet on both sides each house could have an operating fund of 2000 |