FIRES IN SUMMER HOTELS.
The Causes of the Burning of Such Places and How to Protect Them
After Easter, now less than forty days distant, those who can afford it and prefer spending their summer vacation on this side of the Atlantic to doing the grand tour in Europe, will be beginning to discuss summer hotels, and, possibly, may be led to make some inquiries as to their safety from a fire-protection standpoint. In the same way those who own and manage such establishments may think it worth their while to examine into the usual causes of fires in such hotels, and to take some steps to provide for the safety of their guests and the preservation of the material property. To all such, as well as to fire underwriters, chief engineers and members of fire departments, architects and building inspectors, the following hints by H. L. Hiscock, the well known special agent of the Aetna Insurance company, will not come amiss. They form part of an article which appeared in the February extra edition of the Boston Standard:
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