OCR Text |
Show Vast Losses by Fire. Individual carelessness, criminality, poor construction of buildings and loose and imperfect Are laws were responsible re-sponsible for the loss last year In the United States and Canada of no less than ?176,157,800 by conflagrations of all sorts. While this total is less than that of 1904, when the Baltimore fire occurred, it Is with that exception tho highest Are loss yet recorded. In this matter of loss by fire, as with tho slaughter occasioned by our railroads and the lynching horror, the United States has a distinction all Us own among civilized nations and one which can hardly be contemplated with prido or satisfaction. Leslie's Weekly. . |