| Show fir fic FIRES rles RIES AND BUILDING the ne new 7 york herald has a very sound article on fires which it aronou pronounces nees among the peculiar institutions of this very great country na such buch losses of lire life and property are recorded in Eu england eukland kland iland france or germany it accounts for our misfortunes for fortunes tune a h and i nd ascribes them thein to several causes carelessness and recklessness iu in building and the i careless and reckless way in which li our servants treat all matters where nire fire and lights are concerned but the most truit fruitful rui rul source affire of nire fire lies in defective building how frequently we hear bear of the defective aue flue the defect deneef Is not in the flue but in the blockheads block heads architects and builder builders who allow the ends of ot half a dozen joists foists to bl be e ste stepped aped in I 1 the breastwork breast work of J a ehin ebin chimney lugy ingy with those ends exposed to the highway of or fire then wb we build hol hollow loNy floors leaving airways beneath our feet and anil we build hollow partitions to enable the fire to run under ua us around us unknown until it bursts bursis out all floors should be packed solid be tween the joists foists with light concrete and land all parti partitions eions sim bim similarly fearly filled io in thus floors and partitions ipe lie become gome pr practically a c ti e ail all y ii nire fire r 0 proof and ind neither rats rata nor mice can range over the building omaha JI 71 evald erald |
