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Show GOURD AGAINST HOLIDAY FIRES There Is an old saying that an ounce of prevention Is worth a pound of curv. Caution Is especially advisable advis-able at this season of the jcar in guarding against holiday fires. This Is the time of all times when serious conflagrations are apt to occur in shops and stores. According to annual custom as the Christmas season is at hand, the city fire department Is advising the large stores, where special combustible lines are displayed, to be very careful to guard against fires. Fire Chief Caniield gives the following advice to business men ef Ogden: "We are taking the liberty at this limp of the year to cull your attention atten-tion to the fact thai the Installation of electric wires and lights In the vicinity vi-cinity of inflammable decorations as exemplified u show windows, displays dis-plays ami eMher decorative features, bus been the cause of innumerable fires of more or lcbs serieus consequences. conse-quences. "Thosr fires almost Invariably arise-from arise-from the practice of allowing employes em-ployes not conversant with the electric elec-tric hazard to Install wires and apparatus appa-ratus ia show windows, or the placing of inflammable material In contact with lamp sockets and conductors. "The entrusting of important work of this nature to those' who are not familiar with the necessary safeguards safe-guards to be employed Is liable to re suit disastrously, "The fire department wishes to cooperate co-operate with you iu any effort to promote pro-mote safe electrical conditions, and to that end we may be abb- to offer suffeations concerning the proposed work which mnv- materially aid lu the lessening of fire possibilities." |