Show 2 MILLIONS BURNT MONEl A S BOOK m S u fiRE PREVENTION I TilE TUE T EN OR LOUS FIRE LOSS LOSSIN IX IN AMERICA The Tho enormous tire fire loss In America is beginning to create concern That the tho fire loss Joss per capita should be nearly nearl ten times that of oC European I countries ought to set the AmerIcan I people thinking It ought to produce I Isome some anxiety about discovering the tho cause canse of this waste and provide somo active actie measures or Its Lq prevention I The National Government for Cor some somo years ears has been actively engaged In an educational campaign looking toward th the conservation of oC our great natural of timber lands devastated I by res but the yearly carh waste In these fires JIres hardly equals the tho loss Joss from fir fires I In private property all over oer the United States I Poor construction and the neglect of oC oCI I easily applied devices for fire proven lion tion In buildings Is the tho first source of oC thIs enormous loss A few dollars spent On a lire fire stop In a floor or par partition will often otten so 50 retard a fire that time enough Is given gen to save sae the house Then Arne Ame leans cans are the most care careless less people in time the world In the dis disposal of oC ashes ashe The Tho majority of house hous I owners getting heat from a furnace In Inthe inthe the cellar have hae the ashes shoveled Into wooden barrels which often stand near wooden partitions Children are arc al allowed owed lowed free access a ce s to matches Mill owners allow plies piles of combustible waste to lie In convenient places Smokers with criminal carelessness throw lighted cigars and cigarettes anywhere most convenient That better construction must lIe he heI I II I considered and the tho people I Into more careful habits Is becoming the policy or of man many sates The marshals are arc In inaugurating j a campaign of education among business men and several states ha have 0 already alread laws making It compulsory for teach tench era In the public to spend a certain amount of time each week In Instructing children about the Ilan dangers of oC carelessness s in the use of fire I Fire insurance rates are high In I America The Tho can n be lowered b by an ani i energetic prosecution cullon of these methods I for tor decreasing the fire waste ane and soe e o of the great fIre insurance companies I are doing their part in this national education I The FIre Insurance Com Company pany of Hartford Conn Is perhaps most active In the movement This I company has just published and Is sending fending free to nil who write for Cor It a avery I very r valuable book on Fire Prevent t i tion and Fire Insurance which ou ought ht to be In the hands of eer every policy holder and property owner in America Am rica i ic r c The local of oC tho Hart i i ford Is J C e I |