Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1887 — A Laudable Enterprise. [ARTICLE]

A Laudable Enterprise.

The old-established, rook-rooted and reliable Phenix Insurance Company, of Brooklyn, is engaged in a most commendible work of trying to educate the people of this country into an understanding of the great and irreparable loss they suffer every year from hies, and of the many ways in which fires could be guarded against and prevented. One of the methods adopted by the company to secure this most desirable end, has been the printing and sending out for gratuitous distribution vast numbers of a neat littie pamphlet . entitled, “Fires, Causes and Prevention.” Five hundred thousand copies of the pamphlet have been published, fifty thousand of which have been distributed in this state. The pamphlet devotes several pages to general observations upon the great losses occasioned by fires and wise suggestions as to their prevention, and then directs special attention to the most common forms of danger, devoting brief but wise paragraphs to various subjects, such as Ashes, Stovepipes, Rubbish, Matches, Oils, Gasoline, Chimneys, Lights, Grates, Stoves Ac. Very few householders or house-keepers can read the little book through carefully without having their attention called to various instances in which they might, with a little care afid prudence, greatly lessen the danger of destructive fires originating in their own premises. This pamphlet will be followed by others of similar import every few months. Copies be had, at any time, free of cost, by applying to the resident agent of the Phenix, M. L. Spitler, at his office with Thompson & Bro.