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Show CAN CUT DOWN FIRE LOSSES Abundant Proof'That Carelessness Is tho Chief Cause of Many Disastrous Disas-trous Conflagrations. The Society for Klcctrlenl Develop, ment, dissatisfied with n recent report re-port of the National Hoard of Klre Underwriters In which electricity mis blamed ns tlie-chief cause of lire lo-wes. has nindf tin exhaustive eMimlhnlinu. tnklng tlie yenr'irno as a basis. It publisher In 'the 'Klcctrlenl World the results of this Investigation. The report re-port shows that ln 514." cities, with an aggregate V"PUln1 Inn of !!8,405,8r1 persons, per-sons, there -were i:iS,ri..' fires In 11)10, of which those apparently of electric origin numbered il.riOS, or 2.57 per tent of the total. Heglnahl Trnutsc'idJd, writer of the report, remarks that "a large proper-tlon proper-tlon of electric tflros, If not the majority, major-ity, ait caused by careless disregard of quite obviously necessary precautions, precau-tions, such us 'leaving no electric flat-iron flat-iron with the current turned on upon mi Inllammnhle Ironlng-benrd." Though fires' resulting from-such causes usually usual-ly cause only trilling damage, It Is ensy to see how they may rwsult In very serious coullnyratlons. |