Indiana Has Essay Contest
Prizes amounting to $1,100 will be awarded to the pupils of Indiana elementary schools, who write the winning essays on fire prevention and fire protection in a contest which closed February 21, according to the announcement of Alfred Hogston, state fire marshal. There are twenty-eight prizes; the lowest being $25 and the highest $100. “How to Prevent Fires in the Community,” is the essay subject.
In each congressional district, two prizes, $50 and $25 are offered for the two best essays. County contest chairmen must deliver the essays sent to them to the district contest chairmen before midnight, March 7.
The essay winning the first district prize must be sent to the office of the Indiana State Fire Marshal Department before midnight March 14th.
The winners of the two state prizes will be announced March 28. The first state prize is $100.; the second state prize is $50. The winning essays will be published in the Indiana Fire Prevention Quarterly, official organ of the State Fire Marshal Department.
Each essay will be graded as follows: 75% on treatment of subject and 25% on English used.
The judges of the district contest will be selected by the district contest chairman. The judges of the State contest will be selected by Mrs. Nellie M. Long, Chief of the Educational Division of the State Fire Marshal Department, who has active charge of the contest throughout the state. Mrs. Long reports that great interest is shown everywhere in the contest and the Department is receiving excellent cooperation from all quarters in its effort to make it both interesting and highly beneficial to the citizens of the whole state.
Apparatus Crash in Philadelphia—A ladder truck on the way to a fire in Philadelphia, Pa., crashed into a trolley. The truck was turning around the corner and the rear end of the truck crashed into the trolley. No one was injured.
