Booth Completes Forty Years With Underwriters
Following the great Baltimore conflagration in 1904, the National Board of Fire Underwriters organized an Engineering Department, with the purpose of advising cities as to the improvements deemed necessary to prevent conflagrations.
This year, 1944, completes forty years of that work. Starting with the organization as one of its first engineers was Geo. W. Booth, who for the past thirty odd years has been the Chief Engineer.
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