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I'OUTLAHD. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNINO.-APRIL "fl,, 1I
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Butting
There Should Be
No Necessity of ?
Rebuilding Burned .Cities, Because. . ;
When Buildings Are 'Properly-Fire- S '
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iVC.xf s'"r'T! X,- m ' id - .y, of.floor openings the phoenk might Have ' -. , ,,;,, : '
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dwelling! fon; . lfan't wa or tlw abjaation
. of Bifare oiled for oiniltiet; nd t tui
Amorlcantyproud tost tht they kept Urn
' phonix in their back yard, ready to immolat
' itself at iht first alarm of fire and hatch out,
biffffr. thaa ever, from tie gloving embera. ,
Dut the.ateadil growing total of our Arc
loiipfi and the rectiiring borrora of holocaust!
hav begun to tnakt capiUtl wonder whether a
wia 'expenditure in iuilJing before firea could "
occur it not the shrewdest economy; and peo
,p! rtpidJy aettling dowo to orderly progreia of
indutryr trade nd tho calm aatiefaetion of li
- ing- bat begun to resent being burned to death
. whenever aome factory or loft, ' crowded with
toilers, catcbe fire. ' . f ; 4 , ' , .
' Th men who dear with tho bard, plaia
facta - of fire insurance . bad ' those enormoua '
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t 'Irhich "the National . Board' of 'Fire - Underwriters, baa
jprided itself has long been finished, it is even now' under
. revision by lra 11. Woolson, the consulting engineer,, ho
ystematized, the work begun by Charles O. Smith, the
national board's secretary and the pioneer in organizing
the vast task and"' forcing, recognition not only of its
'necessity, but of its practical use, - i
' There are scores and scores of different,' local utili
zations of the code, every one of them embracing fea
tures which are of major importance to the places for
which they are designed. ' There are scores of .local con
ditions .' and influences which must be encountered, ia
il-TAloMoa "thundering uponthoit coffer year after
year. The year iws cost f aiw,uw; iuur cos
8215,000,000; 1008, with San Francisco's disaster
to awell the total, reached $318,000,000; 1905 coat
' - tlC5.000.000 ISO. Ualtirrtore s 155 aoes -ceing
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ll5,t?OtW?00 rcpraseirted- -a- -lortunate" year;
1002 had coat ieifUf'wu; wvx ournea ioa.
000,000; 1900, the opening of tbe century, sacri-
ficed $160,000,000.. ' , ; ' . .. - ' " :
v NO NEKD TO DESPAIR r.
It eeerned as! though, with San, Franciscoll
terrific conflagration following hard on the heels
p in 1 . : natiAnnl itimiAn fit 'fir V (4 .
i understood how readily a couple of hundred
million, dollars could be raviahed. from a people
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dread activities. . ' ' ' ' ; '
' The national feeling of hopelessness and
helplessness,' with' the new assurance that these
'overwhehhiTjg 'losses " jieed .not .pcrsiatjJa iow ,
"gradilally giving way to a slowly broading senti
ment that, ut matter how .eagerly private "greed
may seek to run up the familiar firetraps which :
have slain -their thousands in the past, the time '
has come when every city and town, and every
state ;in " its turn, must jput the publio safety
above all other, considerations.- Expediency must
give way to care;'.'' ' ---, 'l
. The one state building code which has been
enacted into a law is that of Ohio. It is still .
only partially ' completed ; but the new model
code drawn up by tho National Board of Fire '
Underwriters has largely influenced its pro
.visions as so far defined. .
. In cities of tho importance of New Orleans,
order to effect such compromises or contrive such adap
far inns will shiisi.t v j-euiruicua ui.omie nuuiur- , :r.::.iii.. j -r. i. , . 1 .
i i. . .. j . i." -t, 4k . j .,. , Aiiania, . uuancneier aim i.NewarK, coaea iiave
oitli and ateadilv. id one way or another, the zunda- . ...!.. i i X .
Vifii wv throuirhout' the land,
It t was, perhaps inevitable that a country so new
Birmingham, Erie; New- Brunswick and Syra
miba ,.: 'I'hniiA rt.fVfi' tt 4aTt7A than
,rn cimv w '"'"v '" -V" wnT "C7'"V, which -are' in consultation with the national
J11 . -l . rushed' into existence m a-dav. nhnnlfJ ao. , , .t . .j- ,i - -n. .
. , . ; : , .- ' poara over ui jtbvisiuu oi uueir- ouuaing laws
fere .0JgfffAerasJj79s'S Z??? j3rv 4eRfrje;
UjCO ite "wiintnjne corner of we, out of house, and home and left partiaiiy ,.
''American people to prqtect them- ' a cinder itself. I -, : ' V ' j
disastrous, fires for which, this country f-W. 38,27,957 thejire loss here amounted to
become notorious?- , - $188872.072. or $2.1 a fnr
Year 'after .year vAlh the. great- cities r in Jhe, United States. ; zao' vchenthe
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bst research, is -'being
the cities and toiens -
most effective, insur-
'asters.; thai, must ever,'.,.
ll and conscience unite -
" e the guardian ' spirit,
hat code's .progress;
. I comparison .with the
: iheless niarks the be.
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equipped valhri departments .that -are'..' population-reached 91372,266 the losses
the ' amazed admiration .of.' the world for- rose id $214,295,379, or $2.33 per head. ' P
; their unequaled' equipment, efficiency and Meanwhile; France led the per. capita loss
xdarig, the fire losses of 4he .United States y in tEurope,,with 92 cents,' and -Germany '' tl
.thdwutfitals of-lives losj .'and -property X almost unscathed;, found it r fire cost" only ' .
'destroyed which are calculated. in fill with .10 -cents per h'a'd' '' l,r
y: v
i dismay --any -nation .that vhas - not' been
habituated, so to' speak', to being burned
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. ...... t urni iiinvic vrin .
v fui..ng construction cuserved-
4 and that is a quality of -cant
v -kind., ,Vheft '.fir9t '
t years ago, it was'eapX
iat a' code, could be,de'-
i permanent" assurance of -.'-.should
be completed.!..
--licst ireveJations appar -'
Jthat was instituted . was
todc, to be practical in its -V
. (Srmanently subject to r- '
fadapted to the changing-
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' (uodel'.building code ' on y - - . " , 1
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