Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — How to Prevent Fires. [ARTICLE]

How to Prevent Fires.

It is the old maxim that fire is a good servant but a bad master. Fires are the result of accident, of spontantous combustion, of design. If the following precautions are taken, fires from accident will seldom occur: Keep your house, store, or shop clean. Never allow rubbish such as paper, rags, cobwebs, old clothing, boxes etc. to accumulate in closets and unused rooms. Never keep gasoline or benzine about the premises. Nevir fill coal oil lamps after dark or near an open fire. Never run your stove pipes through a wooden partition, or through the roof without proper protection. Never put ashes in a wooden receptacle. Never keep matches in any but metal safes, and when you light one never throw it on the floor. Never allow smoking near inflammable merchandise or other materials. Never take an open light into a closet. Never read in bed by lamp light Never close up your place of business before going over the premises to see if all fires and lights are extinguished. Never forget that carelessness and negligence are the cause of over two thirds of all the fires. Never forget to have pails or buckets of water near at hand for immediate use in case of emergency. Put ash pans in all newly built chimneys, C. B. Steward Fire Warden. Remember we still club with the Weekly Inter Ocean and the New York Tribune at the same very low comtination rates as before. Republican and Inter Ocean, 31.85. Republican and Tribune 11.75. All three, 12.10.