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Show rr oo . SAFETY MATCH IS CONDEMNED Now York. June 17. The declaration declara-tion by exports, that It will he almost impossible for a woman with a baby In her arms to use a safety match, has hold up the proposed regulations prohibiting tho sale of matches containing con-taining white phosphorus in New York. All the experts agreed that it would lc necessary for a person touse both hands in lighting the safety match. In support of the safoty match, tho bureau of combustibles submitted evidence evi-dence to show that there wero 1,071 New York fires caused In 1910 by tho use of matches containing phosphorus. Eleven lives were lot and $ilG5,409 worth of damage was done by the fires. oo |