MODERATE FIRE LOSS AT PATERSON
Although the fire department of Paterson, N. J., with its 16,532 buildings of all kinds, was called out 410 times during 1906—oftener than ever before in the history of the city—there were onlyfour big fires, and the loss was moderate. Of the 410 alarms turned in, fourteen were false, and of the 396 actual fires, seventy-four were in brick buildings; 285 were in frame structures; and thirty-seven in places other than buildings. Three hundred and eighty-seven were confined to the floor on which they originated; 388, to the building in which they started; and only eight extended to other buildings. The total loss was $184,348, which involved an insurance-loss of $180,778; uninsured, $3,570. The total insurance at risk on the buildings to which the department was called was $1,731,066. The losses to the buildings in which fires originated was $174.895; to those to which the fire spread, $9,453. The four big fires which caused the greater part of the loss were as follows: Stores, two; mill, one; lumberyards, one. The work of the local fire de-
Although the fire department of Paterson, N. J., with its 16,532 buildings of all kinds, was called out 410 times during 1906—oftener than ever before in the history of the city—there were onlyfour big fires, and the loss was moderate. Of the 410 alarms turned in, fourteen were false, and of the 396 actual fires, seventy-four were in brick buildings; 285 were in frame structures; and thirty-seven in places other than buildings. Three hundred and eighty-seven were confined to the floor on which they originated; 388, to the building in which they started; and only eight extended to other buildings. The total loss was $184,348, which involved an insurance-loss of $180,778; uninsured, $3,570. The total insurance at risk on the buildings to which the department was called was $1,731,066. The losses to the buildings in which fires originated was $174.895; to those to which the fire spread, $9,453. The four big fires which caused the greater part of the loss were as follows: Stores, two; mill, one; lumberyards, one. The work of the local fire de-
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