Show DANGER O Of DEATHS IN ScHOOLS H IT SAYS Attention is called to the need noel of better apparatus in the dt city schools for forthe tho the purpose of fi righting fighting fires firon bv by an artice article arti arti- cle do printed in tho the last issue of C the tho Insurance In In- Press tn tu the thc list of cities throughout tho the Unit United d States where the tho schools are inadequately protect protected d against fires is the thc name of Salt lt Lako City it ft Itah etah ah and also that lint of Ogden Th This R does doos not take in the thc public schools alone but bul al alo o the private ata schools andI and I dormitories orm tori V The Tho pressing u tl n cd of or tho the hour is to tomake tomake make existing f school chool buildings as aa safe safo for school as modern school chool methods will permit says s the article In lu lupart w part the time article says a. a lImy How how frequently dormitories burn hurn is indicated by b the records of recent months Our lists sho show that such fires have llave occurred in iu a 1 period of three mouths in in n nineteen states states' and one ter ter- In ra Canada several disastrous fires took place in in the first three months of 1908 iDOS In Iii the saute samo period public school chool buildings have boen boon on firo fire in eighteen I states An Au analysis of the fire tire records s of college aud and school buildings in S is not required re re- re quirl to show wh why so 50 man many fires occur 01 or wI why wIthe the tho property property- loss Joss very often equals or exceeds that on buildings which are aro mistakenly supposed to be bemore bemore bemore more hazardous It is jg is wholly unnecessary unnecessary sary sarv to theorize or speculate on the tho probable causes cause of fir fires s The fhe fire record speaks for itself From its own ob observations er and those o of the tho national board hoard of fire un un- writers dot and those of students of social social so so- cial questions tho the Insurance Press asserts assorts as as- sorts without hesitation that the Iho danger dan Ian ger er of loss of lifo life iu in public school buildings built build ings exists in every city and town in inthe inthe inthe the United States not for forgetting the educational institutions that are located in iu tho the country the public assistance assist assist- I ance anee that woul would bo ho available le at the time of firo fire would amount to practically noth Doth iD lag ing Tho Tb matter of essential improvements improvements improve improve- ments in school buildings should havo u instant con consideration but it is is also important im im- that the tho requirements of safety shall be fairly un understood at the out out- set Superintendent Christensen of or the thc city schools does docs not agree with the thc insurance in in- people in their criticisms of this city's schools lie IIo asserts that at tho the thoI I pr present sent time the schools will pass the tho thoI I rules of the thc most rigid city ordinance and aud at tho same time give i the greatest amount of safety to tho the schools He lie de Ie declares ile- ile dares clares that it is is from the standpoint of property loss that tho the insurance companies com corn I panics discuss the question It docs does not seem scent to me mc that there could coul bo lie O any am better etter methods of carin caring earing for tho the children than we have hll at present pros pre cut ent said Mr Mi- Christensen this mornin morning Of course aro arc not the thc automatic sprinkling apparatus in in the thc schools that th the tho insurance companies want w but thero is not n a school in iu the tho cit city with its present pres pres- eat ent equipment that could not bo be cleared iu in five the minutes if f necessary ary I A A structure could coul be erected of the tho most combustible matter and it could b bo b boso so 60 equipped d that this children could all escape in the time of fire But Rut I look at atthe atthe the thc discussion of the thc insurance insurance pt people opo as aa one ono from a property standpoint and not one for tho the greatest safety for lor thc the children |