汽车FIRE RISKS.
The relation of gasolene automobiles in barns to dwellinghouse business will probably be discussed by insurance men at Chicago this fall. According to Western managers the rapid increase in the number of vehicles of this class promises to have an important bearing on dwellinghouse risks in the future, and will soon have to be accurately determined. At present in Chicago an extra charge of ten cents is made for the first gasolene automobile in barns and five cents for each additional vehicle, and this is practically the same provision as prevails in New York. The managers who have been studying the question claim that the number of gasolene vehicles is increasing much more rapidly than the steam or electric motors; and that the introduction of gasolene under any circumstances into barns is to be deprecated. As the class of business most concerned—dwellings—is most desirable, it is believed that the companies will not adopt a very stern attitude towards the automobile in connection with dwelling risks unless compelled. It is thought that the situation has only begun to grow at all serious, and that it will require much consideration before the problem is satisfactorily solved.
For weeks forest fires had raged in the Yosemite Valley, and have only just been got under control, but not until considerable damage had been done to the magnificent pine and oak groves that cover the mountains.
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