Weekly Republican, Volume 57, Number 41, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 October 1911 — Page 6

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OF FIRE THE PHLE1

SPEECH OF EX-CHIEF CROKER OF NEW YORK CITY AT ' , t CHIC AÖO WILL INTEREST MANY.

MAKE BUILDINGS SAFE Law Should Not Allow Wood To Be Used la Structures At All, Says Experienced Fire ' ' Fighter.

The Governors of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio luve proclaimed October 9th Fire Prevention Day. The speech on the reduction of "fire waste," delivered by former Fire Chief Croker of New York City, before tVe International Municipal Con jrress and Exposition at Chicago, on Friday evening, September -9th, will be of interest to many in connection with the observance of this day. Throughout these years I was steadily and irresistibly led to the coneIu.iou jt hat. while fire-fiirhtin and fire-extiniuishinu: cruanizakonof cur i:ieat ufulern cities had reached a hizh state of efficiency and -were keeping well abreast of the demands made upon them, our citizens, as a rule, pail too litth attention to the vital matter of fireprevention, of which I hav? always been a consistent advocate. I will not make my remarks satistical. The figures are staeriivj as this indicates. The enormous fire waste of the United States varies from two hundred million to four hundred million dollars annually, and t lie vastly greater indirect Ios.e that result, seriously ah"?et cur economic and civic progress. The loss of lives by fire is one thai cannot be realized save by these unfortunates wlue relatives an.l friends have been lost in many deplorable calamities. To be .poetical, it is nothing more than the " Shuurli ter of the Innocents." This utter destruction of jnore than a quarter of a billion of dollars in property in addition to the lives inealenrable in money value, is not an act of God nor one of tlie inevitable chances of industry and commerce. ' All that is necessary is to apply the test of comparison with ether - countries of like civilization. In round numbers, the per capita fir loss in the United States has been from .$2 to $4 against 30 cents in the p":pal European countries. One of the conditions in these countries t. at operates to effect a lesser loss than here, is the larger use of non-combustible materials due to the high cost of-wood. Another reason is the intangible influuce of their older civilization, which males these people more carefi'.I of small savings in all their affairs and jreneralh more careful and generally more cautious" than we iiavyot become. - Iut allowing for these fundamental differences between" the countries compared, it is yet apparent that the fire loss in the United States, which is between Feven and eight tici?s that of the greatest European coun

try, is outrageously and criminally greater than it should be. It has been ray observation that the large majority of .fires arise from preventable causes. In fact every fire of conssequence is preventable. The subject of fke prevention is ' vastly more important . than that of fire-fiirlitiner. .When one-conflagration has been' checked-. or. prevented you - have accomplished little. " Th? chances forf repetition tomorrow are J,fa!lv--aiCTl?at. ; . .! Tce $fi to. .fetter, conditions you rdiMaMIfcehat, fireproof" '$ not ' 'firopr as.dt jlVund'erstood to'Jpl UFtfrl definition f refnainsV but rranv' crimes-have been commit-' -'ted iii its name.' I luiow of no more, abused word. I am sincere in the . convictitn that the government should make it a heavily punishable ' CJense to apply the term to any"Cslns?..but an absolutely fireproof

buildimr. Lsre is nut one principle to fireproof construction, be" it either homes,' 'hotels, office buildings, theatres apartments, battleships, railway cars' or "what. To have fireproof buildings architects and owners must throw aside precedent and eliminate the use of combustible and semicombustible materials in their construction. ' ' ' . . If I had my way about it I would not permit a piece of wood, even the size cf a lead pencil, to be used in the construction or finish of any building in the United States exceeding a ground area of 25x50 feet or three stories .in height. If there was ' ttill an absolute necessity for its use, if it could not be replaced with eteel, as it has been in many modern

luuon ui iwur uiini men ue' wen tc attempt to conceive of something better. I am oppose I to the use of wood in any form in tir proof buildings and the law o:v:l.t not to permit its use. Wooden i ;ors, wooden window-frames, doors and casings burn and help other things to burn; wooden trim and bases burn-e verything that is made of wood burns md helps the fire to spread. Eliminate wood remove the cause and ou have precluded the possibility of fires. We have no department of our government devoted, to the matter of fire prevention. Our laws on the sublet are not specialized to completely cover any particular building or business, although they could be made broad enough in their general application to go a great way toward artly solving the problem. It is my firm conviction that t lie United States Government should establish a department, founded somewhat cn the lines of the pure fn 1 law. for .the purpose of establishing: laboratories whose business it

Miculd be to test and classify vari--rs materials med throughout the construction of fireproof buildings in order that the public may he provided with satisfactory and sane schedule of standards of known safety and which shall be accepted as sueUby all departments and authorities in this country, and the law or laws necessary to make these conditions possible should be enacted with the idea constantly in mind that the present so-called fireproof building is such only so far as its exterior is concerned and that legislation is needed and demanded by the public to insure adequate and proper protection to the lives of. ail persons who may b? called upon to congregate in all buildings of a public or semi-public nature. Under the majority of the present building codes so-called fireproof buildings are substantially fireproof in the sense that a conflagration rarely docs seri'uis injury, to the building itself. The flames may rage from room to room and floor to floor: floors, doors, partitions and all interior fittings may char and be consumed; the contents may be destroyed throughout and some or many of the occupants lose their lives, but the four walls' and framework, that is. the organic structure of the building, usually comes through the conflagration intact. It is the combustion of contents, not damage to the buildings themselves that. "makes fire losses in the United States so heavy, in proportion to the amount spent for new construction. The need, therefore, is not for ordinance requirements which will make the buildings more effectuallv 4 'fireproof." hut enactments which will protect the INMATES and CONTENTS of buildings by makinit impossible for a fire -once started to course virtually unchecked from room to-room and floor to floor of" a building whose walls ar fireproof. TnvMher words. DEATH PROOF and CONFLAGRATION-PROOF eonctructbn are necessary requiremtns for new compulsory legislation for 1 fireproof construction." Another element cf k'mdred significance that should be taken Into account is the fact that under present day conditions of industrial employment and also very often under metropolitan conditions of residence in buildings housing large numbers of people, fire-escapes and means of exit cannot, as a practical matter, be provided which, in the face of flames which preclude the use of the elevators and perhaps also the stairways, will certainly afford to all the occupants of a modern building the means of immediate and safe descent on the street. Still less impossible is any saving or. safeguarding of valuablecontents of 'buildings through means of removing them to the street or adjacent buildings. Future construction must be so required that the starting of flames in one room of a building need not make imperative the instantaneous exit therefrom ?f all persons employed in the building, or even on the floor where the Zre starts. Means of safety, for both -ersons and property, must be secured, in the building and even on the floor where the fire starts, by making impossible the . instantaneous converting, of elevator shafts and stairways into flues for the flames, and by making impossible the rapid spread of flames from room to room and floor to flcor. Nothing could be more dangerous, more expensive, or more unnecessary, than the idea that the ''safety; of workers iir "factory and loft-buildings can best be 'secured -at all, by providinij means of rapid "exit tö ' tluV street. ' The cost of th'ekind of fire-escapes and - the additional stairways properly required, as well as the considerable -space occupied by such devices, would make them almost prohibitive in expense )even'i' practicable or effectual, which they could not be. Eyenif, however, all the occupants could be got out safely and in'tinle no" reason appears wiry the contents should be left to the mercy of the fldrres coursing, from room to room and floor to floor until checked by' the activities of the firemen. Both persons and property; should be afforded protection in the building, by making its construction really fireproof, that is death rof. and conflagration-proof, thereby confining the flames toi a limited area within which to burn themselves out, consuming onlV such contents as are not removed to. safety behind -doors and iiartitiovrs as .effectually fire-resisting as the w.alls themselves One great lesson which many recent fires ,in New York and else-

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iug l more fireprtof than are its doors and windows, while tee presence of wood in trim or casing anywhere lessens, to that extent, tlio fire resisting and fire-confining power of the structure. ' No matter if the walls are fully fireproof, doors of wooden construction permit the flames to sweep from room to rcon. and floor to floor, instead of being confined to cne room, as is possible in fireproof buildings in reality not fireproof only in name. How often it is tr:'e that hotels, theatres, apartment buildings and tie lilce, ar advertised as "fireproof throughout." only to have some fire disclose that the buildings were verf a !'- " i io-ti a "'s." i'r.e fireproof construction of the walls, floors and fcven stairways making only more perfect fines for the ripid combustion cf tinder-like doois. partitions. ! window-casings, trim and room-con tents! Those who go into public hotels aril halls at nigh5 should have protection and assurance that representations of fireproof construction are in reality well-founded. Even building should have straight, broad stairways of fireproof construction. And every door and partition, no matter how small or. how enporary. should be fireproof. Right here I want to say i to von that bv the term "fireproof" as applied by me. to doors, partitions, and all other interior work of buildings, I do not mean slow burning, near-fireproof, or any of the other so-called makeshifts which are used in many instances. One of the most notable fires in the history of New York Citv was the Singer building fire of last fall. Combustible yiaterial in a room on the twenty-sixh floor of that structure caught fire on the morning of September 20th, just one year ago and was a mass of flames before discovered. Tl:e incinient conflagration was of course far above the height at which firemen coul I work 'f'Yctively. and the building had not been really fireproof the structure wouh have become a giant chimiey through which the flames could 'vive coursed and de-troyed at will. This building, however, was completely equ;p;cd with holhw stee1 doors and trim throughout, so per-.! frctly enameled and grained that even an expert in wood could only detect their true composition bv sounding the trim with a metallic substance. The result was that the fire practically burned itself onf in the room in which it start .d before the arrival of the fire department. Accordingly this fire was most notable, not for loss of life and property, the elisastrous consequences for which fires are usually notable, but for t be disastrous consequences which were prevented by complete fireproof ing! Tirme there is a fascination about steel interiors. It constantly empha--;ze-s the absurdity of fire-fi listing, for how can fires rage if they have nothing to feed upon? Before making this talk I again, inspected one of the hollow steel doors from the ! Singer building fire which is on ex hibition 'at this Congress. If every building was constructed in this manner and made absolutely fireproof the appropriations for the maintenance of fire departments could be greatly reduced. Wiihin the next year I expect to build a home. Some of my friends await the result with interest, expecting a fwak. Quite the contrary. I am going to have it absolutely fireproof, without having' to make excuses fcr using the term fireproof. It is going to be far more artistic than even the. old tinderbox. I am not going to spend a fortune on it, either, for the slight additional expense incurred in eliminating wood will be comparatively insignificant and will -prove a perpetual asset in the long run. Just to demonstrate that my fireproof ideas can be carried to homes I am going to fire my house as soon as it is -completed and prove conclusively that it will not burn, simply because it cannot. Fast Time on Test Train. The Pennsylvania test train,, which has been running for three weeks between Fort WiVne and Valparaiso, a distance of 114 miles, mad? the trip a few days ago in 85 minutes. This is sa?d to he the fastest - time ever made by a heavily loaded train.. This train consists -of the engine, tender and nine cars-loaded with forty, thousand pounds. of railroad iron. It has a clear righCpf. XAr' through ffie cities", and when it makes speed tests through cities it seems some-. thing tlangerous. . --w y . ! Juvenile Band No More. - . After a successful existence' of two and one-half years the-Juvenile band has disbanded. Mrs.' Behmer fele that she could hot continue to devote her time to the work. She has shown 'a wonderful degree of interest and persistence in training the boys and the experience they have gained calls for their, appreciation and gratitudo.. The community also realizes the sacrifice and labor which Mrs. Behmer 's undertaking has involved. Culyer Citizen.'7 . Another Indian Honunent. The dedication of the memorial shaft erected to the memory of Kokomo the great war chief of tlvr Miami Indians, took plrfce at Kokomo Thursday.lt was a special holiday throughout the county and the city was thronged with visitors.

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FI IS 01 IG SUGGESS ATTENDANCE IS ESTIMATED AT 8.000 PEOPLE WHO THPwONGED GROUNDS TO SEE AND BE SEEN. ARE GOOD MANAGERS! Showings oftock, Vegetables, Grains j Fruits and Cther Things Nearly Equal To Former Years. The estimate of the attendance at the Bourbon fair on Thursday was 8,000 people. While thi is 'not a record breaker. Tt is up to the usual standard and the management is highly pleased. Crowds of sb.rh1-seers from east and west poured into Ibyirbon on trains all the morning, and in the afternoon the fair grounds were a spectacle to behold. Ibigples and autos lined the race track from one end t the other, the grand stand and oleachers' seats- were fijled. and inside the race course were more than a hundred aufos. A special train of fifteen coache.? went from Plymouth, a total of 420 tickets being sold and a large number went by auto and buggy. From Warsaw fully as large a delegation came. i Exhibits Are Good. Generally speaking the exhibits were good. The showings of hogs :ind sheep were few and not up to the standard, but the remainder of exhibitions were good. A splendid sight was made by the fruits, cakes, jellies, etc. A pumpkin weighing l.'IO pounds carried oil' the honors in tie vegetable kingdom, though the beets. sweet potatoes, squr.shes, cabbages and othsrs were big enough to make - a howl about it. Corn showings were not so good. An exhibit from Alberta, Canada, tried to oompete with Marshall county stuff, but didn't make much of a hit. The hor.-es were fine and were shown in a specially "provide! ring, fence which kept-the spectators at a oroper distance. Cattle exhibits v. ere fair. The Bourbon Fa:r Association ! keeps its buildings in good repair I and every year sees some new improve ir.ents -wh'cli, add to the comfort of the visitors or the 'care oi the stock or other exhibits The Bourbon Fair is always a place for the meeting ofj old friends, and people come from all over this and Kosciusko counties as much to see each other as to see the fair. A hundred tickets were sold Friday for the fair from Plymouth, and others, of course went by rig and auto. James C. Dahlman, ' 'Cowboy ' Mayor of Omaha, "Throws the Lariat" Mayor Jas. C. Dahlman started his career as a cowboy, and is at present Mayor of Omaha, and has the following record. Sheriff of Dawes Co., Neb., three terms; Mayor of Chadron,, two terms; Democratic Nat's Committeeman, eight years; Mayor of Omaha, six years, and in 1910 Candidate for Governor of Nebraska. Writing to Foley & Co.. Chicago, he says: I have taken Foley Kidney Pills and they have given me atgreat deal of relief so I cheerfully recommend them." Yoitrs truy, James C. Dahlman. For sale by Fred Wenzler. WE CAN DETECT DAMAGE in any part of. a carriage or wagon where a less skilled eye ' would see nothing wrong. And once we detect it we repair it thoroughly and promptly. We do not rely on your ignorance of the defect or gloss it over with a coat of paint. We do an honest job every time and charge an honest price for it. That's what you wantf niNGGENCERG & CULLtCON - Center Street.

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TROOPS TO FOIL LOOTERS Governor WcGovern Orders Two Companies to Black River Fa!!s. Madison, Wis.. Oct. 0. Governor McGovern ordered t"o militia rempanics to Black River Falls :o protect property of several thousand victims of the flood there from, looters. The companies orderen cut are those of Maus ton and Kau Claire. Sheriff Meek telegraphed the governor for troops to protect the property if the victims.- He said the sufferers had sufficient food for atout three days. TWO MORE BODIES FOUND Eight Hundred Employes of Pennsyl vania Car Shops Volunteer Service. Austin, Pa., Oct. 9. The recovery and identification of two additional hodies and the clearing up of considerable wreckage featured the flood situation. Out of a total cf seventy-four believed to have perished, sixty-two have been taken from the ruins. The action of SCi) employes of the Renovo car shops of the Pennsylvania railroad who came here voluntarily from Williams port, Pa., and assisted In removing the great piles of debris, was an unusual tribute. RAILWAY STRIKE IS QUIET Rioting Has Subsided and Conditions Are Nearly Normal. Chicago, Oct. O.-a-At the close of the first week cf the strike cf shop employes on th? HarVfman railror.ds and the Illinois Central conditions were reported to be nearly normal. The ricting which marked the first few days of the strike at several points in the south has subsided, and the strikers are trying to-' interest associations of merchants and manufacturers to lend their aid to bring about an adjustment of the difficulty. 0HI0.C0NTRACT0R MURDERED Body Found in House- He Vyas Completing Skull Crushed with. Pipe. . Cleveland, O., Oct. 9. The body of Dama Pejau, aged slrty-three, a wealthy carpenter contractor, was found in a house which he was completing on Clifton boulevard. His skull had been crushed with a section of water.pipe. - ; There is no clew to the hiurderer. His wallet, containing $300, is missing. Royalist Leaden. Leaves Portugal. Condon, Oct. 9." A dispatch from .Lisbon-to the Express says 'that the royalist Jeader, Couceiro, fled to the coast and thence to Oksh for South Dont trifle1 with a cold is good advice for prudent men and women. It mav be vital in case of a chilL There is nothing better than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs and cold3 in children. .- It is safe and sure. For sale by All Dealers.

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DOLL CRUSHED; iVIEN EXCITED 'Horrible Accident" on Street Car Track Proved to Be Joke. Anderson. Ind.. Oct. 9 Mischievous boys cast a large doll under a street car here and the car wheels crushed a sawdust limb from the doll. A man thinking the doll was a bahy, called for an ambulance. Calls brought two ambulances to the scene, but the man discovered the hoax and dropped the crushed doll to the pavement. The first ambulance men to arrive promptly gathered tip the doll and haJuled it away although they discovered they also had been the victim of a prank by the hoys. The street was filled with people when tha ambulances dashed to the scene of the supposed accident. Constitution to Supreme Court. ' Indianapolis, Oct. 9. After Judge Remster of the circuit court had filed j his conclusions of law and special find-j ings of facts in the constitution case, the necessary formalities for taking! an appeal from Jud?e Remster's re-j cent decision, that the act for the proposed new state constitution is unconstitutional; were disposed of and Judge Remster granted the petition cf the attorneys for the defense for an appeal to the Indiana supreme court. Dies of Fractured Skirl!. Gary, Ind., Oct. 9. David .Ale:Sholtis, a machinist helper, fell a few feet and sufTered a fractured skull, while working in the machine shot of the Illinois Steel company's plant. He died scon afterward. Sholtis is the second- workman to be killed in the Gary mills in a week. Sidney Conger Is Cead. t. Indianapolis. Oct. 9. -- Sidney Ccn.ger of Snelbyville. former eil inspec-) tor, one of the. most widely known; ;nyen In .-Indiana, and who had long figured in Republican politics, is dead in a local sanatorium Jle had been suffering for more than a year from cancer' of the throat. $600 for Loss of an Eye.Anderson, Ind., Oct. 0 For loss of an eye George Logan, colored, sued the Indiana Steel company of Muncie for $10,000 d-imajres. The case was brought here from the Madison circuit court and was called for trial. A compromise was effected by Logan receiving $600. Injunction Restrains Strikers. New Orleans Oct. 6. On application of attorneys for the Southern Pa cific Railroad company a temporary, injunction was issued in the United Staffs court restraining strikers and others from interfering with, the affairs of the road. Notice to Public This is to notify the public that I have moved my office to my new building at 117 W. Garro street, where I will be pleased to see my patrons "and others. Office is on the ground floor. H. A. Deeds. lw

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74 CORTLANDT CTRECT New York City. N.Y, INDICTS WALL PAPER" MEN Cleveland Grand Jury Finds True Sills Against Nine. Cleveland, O., Oct. 6. rrcrr.inent wall paper joltcrs and Kanufacturera m different sections cf the country, constituting the so-calied vail paper trust, were indicted by the federal grand jury on the charge cf censririns .to restrain trade in violation cf the Sherman anti-trust law. Attorneys for the indicted men, of whom there are nine, arranged with the government officials to have them appear here Saturday In answer to. the indictments. The following were Indicted: Jay R. Tearce, president of the Jobbers association, Cleveland; C. C Aller, Columbus, O.: Morton Newcomb, St. Louis; Charles E. Maxwell, Chicago and New York; V. A. Iluppuch, Hudson Falls, X. Y.; Ceorr-e Tait, Glens Fails, X. Y.; Robert t Hcbhs. Hobokcn. X. J.; Jo.'in McCoy, York, Pa. Child Playing Hangs Self. Des Meines, la., Oct. 6. The twr year-cld daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hahlon cf this city met death by hanging when "she pkiced tha noo?e of a small rcpe attached to th clothes line .about her neck. Six Beat Marsh?! to D?3th. Muskogee, Okla., Get. 6. T. J. Kirk' city maishal of Marble City. Okla., was beaten to d?ath with ck:bs by six men who are new In jail. It is said the men wore drinking, when Kirk remonstrated with them. .Prisen Tunnel Discovered. Dannemora, N. Y., Oct. G. The officials at Clinton prison have discovered a tunnel under the laundry excavated half-way to a sewer, through, which it was planned to make a prison delivöry.' HONOR FOET RILEY Pupils Observe Birthday Anniversary in Schools of Indiana. .Irdlanapolis, Ind., Oct. 7. The f.rst general observance cf'Jamcs YVhitccmb Riley's birthday anniversaty was held .in every Indiana school, and in recopniticu cf the honor the "Hocsier poet" issued greetings to fcU children friends. i Mr. Riley has kept the year cf hi: birth a secret, but it is believed that There is more Catarrh In this section of the country than all other diseases put together and until the last few years was supposed to be Incurable. For a great many yeärs doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced It Incurable. Science, has proven Catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh. Cure, manufactured by F. J. Chenev & Co., Toledo. Ohio, Is the only ' Constitutional cure on the market. It la taken Internally in doses from 1 di jps to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. The offer one hundred dollars for any ense it falls to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address: P. J. CIIEXEY it CO., Toledo, O. Sold br Uruegrists, 75c k Hall's Family Fills for eonccipation.