纽约大火及其原因和数字。
保险公司已经收集elaborate data as to the number and causes of fires in New York city their object being, of course, to justify their rates. The results of their investigations have been summarised as follows: For carelessly dropped cigarettes and matches this city pays in fire losses the sum of $2,500,000 in a single year. If the oth r causes of New York's twenty three daily tires defective or mismanaged heating and lighting apparatus and machinery, badly constructed buildings, greasy waste, hot ashes and similar lire encouragers are taken into account, the hill for carelessness in such matters is $10,000,000 a year, distributed among 8,500 different alarms. This tig nre, based upon the official fire patrol reports, does not, however, include $415,000 paid directly by the taxpayer for damage to tire department property. For every time tin lirehell rings in this city and the apparatus goes out, even for a false alarm, it costs at least $50 for damage to trucks and strain on the fire horses. Nor does it include half a million dollars of damage to asphalt pavements from children's bonfires. 1 itis annual fir -loss has grown to such proportions that boards of underwriters, and. also, the hri patrols, are making an elaborate study of th; causes of tires. Ihcir observations are charted carefully by expert statisticians and made the subject of deep study by (ire-specialists. The most recent of these yearly charts, covering 6,357 tires in the hor ouglts of Manhattan and The Bronx, which did over $7,000,000 damage, gives some peculiar sta tisties. The most fiery day of the week in these boroughs is ironing day—Tuesday, when 89 fires occurred. due partly to the ranges and gas stoves being kept at full blast with piles of dry clothes round them. The busiest hour of the day f firemen is the dinner hour, 6 to 7 p. m., when 521 alarms came in. At this time factories and offices have just been deserted, and whatever has been left amiss has time to finish smouldering and burst into flame. Th; busiest month is January, when coal is piled in to get more heat. This month has 635 fires to its credit, though November, with its election celebrations and the necessity of using more lights and giving heating apparatus its first really good test, is a close second, with 624 fires to its discredit. Recreation hours seem to be the time of the day when the majority of the fires occur, and the period from midnight to 6 o’clock in the morning the lightest. For only 868 fires are charged to early morning, while 2,356 occurred between 6 p. 111. and midnight; 1,997 were at the shopping and matinee hours, from noon to 6 o’clock, and 1,138 happen d between breakfast and luncheon. This is further borne out by the fact that the second highest figure for the week, 932, is for Sunday, when people are at church or off on outings. Tim special frequency of fires between 6 o'clock and midnight is attributable to a number of causes. In the first place, in these hours mors lights are burning than at any other time. Open fires are Indited; th TC is more smoking of cigars; alcohol chafing dishes are much in requisition. All of these things mean that matches are used more than at any other time of the day. Factories and stores are des.-rted, and if any fire has begun to smoulder before 6 o'clock, it may be expected to break out before nudnight. Moreover, the streets at this hour are filled with drunks, who are taken In me the worse for liquor about this time. and try to light the gas. and, when the match burns their lingers, drop it on the bed or in a wastepaper basket. Hut es pccially at this time are homes without adults, who are out at the th atre or supping in restaurants. It is then that the little children, after their 11 vrse has gone to bed. wake up and want a light, and get the matches. A lire is thus started. Then, also, is the time for fires to hr :tk out in ash barrels down cellars. The fires after 12 p. 111. are in many cases traceable indirectly t wak fill babies. They wak uo and their mothers, in dishabille, rise to attend them. Th woman strikes a match and then realises that the shades are up. So, before she lights the gas, she goes, lighted match in hand, to the window to pull down the shade, and sleepily s.ts fire to the curtains. The worst monetary damage v fire is in December. January and Februarv. when $2,938,835 of loss occurred. The lowest month for loss is Sept 111ber, when the children go to school again, though the fewest fires occur in August. The summer, when no heating apparatus is used and fewest lights are burned, is the time when tlure is least damage to buildings. Of the summer months July had th • most fires, 503. and of these main were contributed by the Fourth of July fireworks, hut, apparently, because even one expects iires on and about the Fourth and is watchful, the damag i; low. ,
在TCNN。的纳什维尔，根据轮胎元帅法的火灾定罪，已在谢尔比县获得。詹姆斯·伊拉克特（James Ilackett）被彩色，因向孟菲斯木材公司的工厂着火而被判处七年徒刑。
