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Show Our Costly Ash-Heap. The annual ash-hrap of Canada and the United States involves a property loss of one-quarter of a billion dollars. These stupendous figures give America the unenviable distinction of leading the world in fire losses. The average person, particularly if he has had no fire on his own premises, imagines that this loss does not aiTect him. Joseph O. Ham-mitt, Ham-mitt, chief of the New York City tire prevention bureau, points out, however, that each family in the United Stales is being taxed about $-7 a year l'nr smoke. and ashes. Every taxpayer feels the tire loss in the cost of maintaining expensive fire departments; every property prop-erty owner gets it in increased insurance rates; and every renter, rich or poor, pavs his proportion of the tax in the rent. The amazing thing about out enormous enor-mous fire waste is that there is no excuse ex-cuse for it. Carelessness is back of a large proportion of tires. Leslie's, |