FIRE LOSS IN PHILADELPHIA.
While Philadelphia was exempt from actual conflagrations in 1906—the two most destructive fires being a lumberyard blaze, with a loss of $300, 000, a business building, with a loss of $300,000, and a reduction plant, with a loss of $250,000—its aggregate fire loss for 1906 will considerably exceed $2,000,000 — $1,925,556 for the first five months, and not less than $500,000 (estimated) for the last three. As a rule, the worst fires took place in the outlying districts, the congested-value territory being well protected through the highpressure system The total fire-loss in 1905 was $1,636,877.
While Philadelphia was exempt from actual conflagrations in 1906—the two most destructive fires being a lumberyard blaze, with a loss of $300, 000, a business building, with a loss of $300,000, and a reduction plant, with a loss of $250,000—its aggregate fire loss for 1906 will considerably exceed $2,000,000 — $1,925,556 for the first five months, and not less than $500,000 (estimated) for the last three. As a rule, the worst fires took place in the outlying districts, the congested-value territory being well protected through the highpressure system The total fire-loss in 1905 was $1,636,877.
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