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Show Fire Loss in United States. If one could Imagine all the bulld-ttgs bulld-ttgs destroyed by fire In the United States in a year arranged along one highway, each building occupying a lot 65 feet wide, the highway would extend from New York to Chicago, and the buildings would line It on ei side. Such is the calculation of the department of Interior. Further-core, Further-core, a person traveling this scene of desolation would pass ln every thousand thou-sand feet a ruin from which an injured in-jured person has been taken.. At every three-quarters of a mile he .would encounter en-counter the remains of a human being be-ing who had been burned to death. For years, it Is estimated, the ra'.ue of actual property annually consumed by fire in this country reaches' $250,000,000, and another sum of about like proportions Is spent for the maintenance of fire departments, waterworks, insurance premiums, etc., to prevent still greater losses. Cleveland Cleve-land Plain dealer. |
