The September Fire Loss
The fire loss of the United States and Canada for the month of September. 1912, as compiled from the records of the Journal of Commerce, aggregates $13,779,300, as compared with $11.333,250 for the same month last year, and $11.700,000 for September, 1910. The losses by fire since the first of January this year total $17,529,850, about a million and a half less than for the first nine months of last year, when the figures reached $178,988,800, and over $18,000,000 more than the same time in 1910, which was reported at $159,347,300. The following table gives a comparison of the losses by months thus far this year with the figures for the same mon Its in 1810 and 1011. together with the losses for the balance of those years:
There were no less than 255 tires during the month of September which caused a property damage estimated at $10,000 or over in each instance. A detailed list of these tires appears cAi the insurance page, this issue, and a classification according to their destructiveness affords the following comparison :
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