Show BUILD BETTER HOUSES A great movement is on in the e east ost to induce people people peo peo- plc to improve the material in the structures that they build The amount lost by fires annually aggregates aggregates gates a 3 sum equal to about for every man woman woman woman wo wo- man and child in the country The amount paid out for insurance policies is much more Tho The losses come from front two causes One is poor material in the structures structures structures tures the other from imperfect means of stopping fires when they are arc once started Many most valuable valuable valuable able and supposedly r safe structures have bave been destroyed do- do because of lack of water or lack of pressure to throw water to a needed height This latter fact is one for Salt Lake C to consider The new mains are arc needed particularly on this account The water should be given free flow from the upper reservoirs to h the main center of business It would be a humiliating humiliating hu hu- un- un spectacle to see one ono of our tall structures burn b because cause of want of pressure on the mains to carry water to whore it might be needed to arrest a fire Then in building people should be more carefuL carefuL carefuL care- care fuL Lumber is growing scarce and amid high and in many ways was its use is being dispensed with for other and better material The fixed partitions in houses if made of reinforced cement would greatly retard a fire once started The same is true of floors Many l private houses have no back stairs which is a most serious matter for with the front stairs in flames and no no other egress what is to become of stricken panic-stricken women women women wo wo- wo- wo i men and cJ children 1 There are arc man many public structures I in which the doors open inward This is a crime There are other structures where the tho heating plant plantis is in the basement just abaft the front door That Thatis is half the fires are arc unnecessary unnecessary and in which the loss of life is a fearful crime |