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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0624 Enlarge and print image (6M) |
| Newsgravure and Magazine Section, THE JEFFERSONIAN, Towson, Md., March 29, 1924. f METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH "THE HOME-LIKE ^A. T0WS2N ¦=_ CHURCH^ ^,1X ^ /v\ D. ^ DAMAGE AMOUNTING TO $506,541,001 CAUSED BY FIRE IN THE UNITED STATES DURING 12-MONTH PERIOD SUNDAY SERVICES" CHUKCH SCHOOL -3.4-S A.Aj. MO/ZN/NQ WOfZSH/P-// A.M. evewNQ service - 8 p.m. OUR DOORS SWINQ WIDE OPEN TO ALL "WHOSOEVER WILL r>)AY COME" BONDED & LICENSED ELECTRICIANS ELECTRIC WIRING ANP FIXTURES APPLIANCES OF ALL KINDS fHtWIL50N ELECTRIC Yin, ft. WILSON-PROP. £09 YORK RD.- TOWSON *****«x~x< i I ? ? ? ? ? x Get the most out of your cattle and poultry by feeding Riverdale Feed for Cattle and Arcady Feed for Poultry. COAL W. W. BOYCE Lutherville, Md. Telephone, Towson 443 Matches, Smoking, Defective Chimneys And Flues, Stoves, Furnacete And Boilers Leading Factors In Loss Of Property—Public Carelessness And Ignorance To Blame. (By Nancy Hanks) Once again, it is evident, America has succeeded in shattering her own lamentable record of fire loss. Never before 1922, even in the year which saw the threatened effacement of San Francisco, has she suffered so 1224-26 Greenmount Avenue Vernon 7100-01 \i <^^^^^^^^^j^^^^^^j^^^^^^^^^f^ Competent Plumbing Is Essential To Good Health Throughout Baltimore County hundreds of satisfied people will testify to the efficiency of my work and the moderate charges. S. L. HOWARD Phone. Towson 110 TOWSON. MD, XKK~XK"XKKK"XKKKK"XK'hXK"X* G. EDGAR HARR Artesian ¦ Well Drillet COCKEYSVILLE, MD. Agent for High Grade Pumps Estimates Furnished Phone. Towson 42-R BALTIMORE ELECTRIC BLUE PRINT CO. PHOTOSTATS BLUE PRINTS imw print: 10 & 12 E. LEXINGTON STREET PhoM, ci«n 3io BALTIMORE ?^??^??^??^??^??^??^?^??^??^??^??^??^??^??^??^??^??^??^??^??^??^??^??^??^??#. 1 SAND AND GRAVEL £ ?> In Any Quantity Also General Hauling y t' C. OSCAR GREEN $ X 19 W. Penna. Ave. Towson, Md. X Phone, Towson 506 East Side Of Yor^k Koad Near. Seminary Ave.- Lutherville BeAUT/EUL Bu/IDING S/TES fiT Appealing Peaces RECK0RD - BLDG. f THOMAS P. MURRAY X General Contractor | BUILDING and | CRUSHED | STONE | V ? ? ? ? V ? ? ?? .>: All Work Promptly Executed By Skilled Labor For any information desired address me at my office MASONIC BUILDING TOWSON MD. Business Phohe, Towson 624 Residential Phone, Towson 625 FORMERLY CRANES "YOUR SWEETEST NEIGHBOR" The Ice Cream of Highest Quality much of her material substance as $506,541,001 to be wasted by flame j in the space of twelve months. The magnitude of such sum as $560,541,001—averaging $964 for every fleeting minute and erecting a per capita of $4.61—is not easy to grasp.. It is, for instance, only a trifle less than the country at present is expending on all forms of national defense; the Government received little more in revenue from customs during 1922 than was consumed by fire in the same period; $560,541,001 would have paid the personal income tax in 19 2 2, with millions of dollars left over; at an average cost of $75,-000, the money representing America's 1922 fire loss would have sufficed to eliminate 6,754 hazardous railroad grade crossings. Possibly a few comparisons like these will help to supply perspective to minds which find it difficult, as most minds do, to envisage such a gigantic waste. Still, merely to record even so great a loss as $506,541,001 leaves untold much of the story; it does not WILLIAM WHITNEY County Surveyor For Baltimore County COURT HOUSE, TOWSON, MD. Telephone, Towson 456 take into consideration the real, though incomputable, fire toll involved in diminished production of needed commodities; it overlooks, too, the cost to the people of maintaining large fire-fighting units, and disregards the stoppage of public income derived from property once taxable but since destroyed. And what figures shall be used to calculate the value of the human beings sacrificed to no purpose, or, what is hardly less regrettable, permanently! mutilated? Underlying fully three-fourths of j this composite fire loss was, as in i previous years, some variety of public carelessness joined to ignorance! of an order which, in the United | States, is common to rich and poor— ignorance amounting to a popular disinclination, to learn, to profit either by reiterated precept or by costly and horrible example. There were, true enough, other agencies sharing responsibility for this unprecedented devastation by fire, but the combined machinations of Carelessness and Ignorance, through the medium of such avoidable causes as matches—Smoking, Defective Chimneys and Flues, and Stoves, Furnaces, Boilers and their pipes—the three leading factors—overshadowed them all. It may be that the optimistic can extract a slight meed of comfort from the fact that the actual tabulations fell approximately fourteen millions of dollars short of the total for 1922, as estimated last spring, on the basis of preliminary figures. Since, however, the real increase over the exhibit for 1921 exceeded eleven millions, or 2 per cent, this consolation seems at best somewhat frigid. Here in Baltimore county the fire loss has been large, especially in the rural districts. The average farm house is not subjected to danger caused by fire in adjoining buildings as in the case with city buildings. On the other hand there is little or no fire protection provided for farm dwellings or outbuildings. New Upright Pianos : Mahogany Cases, High Grade. « Fully Guaranteed. ? Our Price $315 30 months to pay. No interest. « Sanders & Stayman Co. j 319 N. Charles St. ; BALTIMORE \ Telephone, Plaza 3810 .j xk~xkk^~x~xkk~x~x~x~x^x Too many farmers fail to recognize the ever-present danger from fire. Farm buildings should be the most easily safeguarded against loss from various fires. Chiefly -responsible among the known causes of fires on farm proper-ey are lightning, defective chimneys and flues, stoves, furnaces, boilers and their pipes, spontaneous combustion, matches, smoking and petroleum and its products. Every farmer knows that he can remove the lightning hazard by a very simple and inexpensive method of lightning rod equipment. Defective chimneys and flues are wholly within the control of the owner of the property. Proper repairing of stoves, furnaces, boilers and pipes is a matter of good housekeeping which it is almost criminal to neglect. Sparks on roofs cannot be entirely eliminated, but if the chimneys are tight and run to a proper height danger from this cause is reduced to a minimum. Fires caused by petroleum and its products can be wholly eliminated if proper care is maintained in using these articles and if they are kept in receptacles intended for the purpose. Spontaneous combustion usually results either from oily rags, paint or similar material left carelessly where last used or from explosions in barns due to improper, ventilation. It is simple to avoid these hazards by the use of ordinary intelligence. For every bit of farm property that is destroyed, the profits of some farmer are wiped out and the "problems of agriculture" are increased by just that much, for the farmer must) secure new capital with which to re- j place property destroyed. This must j all be charged up against the high i cost of production on farms. As to fatalities and mutilations due to fire on the farm, there are no available statistics but conservative opinion holds that of the 30,000 deaths and injuries by fire in the United States in 1923, a regrettable number occurred in rural districts. To avoid the larger part of America's fire loss, whether it be in town or country, does not require any specialized knowledge but only the quality of ordinary carefulness and the exercise of common- sense. kkkk~xkk-X"Xk~xkk~x»x~X"X* I m*+mm+m*+m&&m CONSULT BLACK a COMPANY Certified Public Accountants 905 GAZRETT BLDC. BALTIMORE. MD. Corporation and Individual Income Tax Reports Comp ONLY 20 FOR THIS SALE I K! t K! f &! V WORKINGMEN! 1 Is it absolutely necessarv to prove; that our stock consist of reliable Bal * timore-made pants? Well, we can sbow some receipts from makers that you know by their good reputation, and they like to sell to ns. See reliable pants—$'.>, $3, $5; Let's go to 511. Look for 511 on the Bit;- Electric Sign on the south side of the street THE PANTS SHOP 511 W. Franklin Stre# ?*? Baltimore, Md. £ v X^XKK^X^X^X^XKK^X^X^X^X**** K~X~XK~XKKK«X"XKKKK~t~X«X* JUST RECEIVED % AN UNUSUAL ASSORTMENT OF ?!? BRASS PIECES § Copies of Antiques in Candlesticks, X .Door Knockers, Bells, Toasting- Fork, A Sandwich Basket, Compotes, etc. £ VERY MODERATELY PRICED Appropriate for Gifts A ON SECOND FLOOR X KK«XK"XKK~X"XKKK"X~XK"X~> .i^j.^».«iii.........ii 317 N. Charles Street The Unusual Gift Shop Established 1835 85 YEARS OF SERVICE GAULT 25 W. SARATOGA STREET MONUMENTS ERECTED EVERYWHERE Artistic Designs H MATTHEW GAULT H. KELCEY CAULT 3RD QEKERATION 4TH CEMRATION EASY TERMS Eden Electric Clothes Washer Let the Eden wash your clothes. It will save you time, work and expense. The Gas & Electric Co. Lexington Bldg. BALTIMORE, MD. STONE GRAVEL SAND E. F. MURRAY Allegany Ave. TOWSON, MD. Hauling of All Kinds Telephone, Towson 247 ^ .*:* l/i Just To Remind You of JAMES A. MJDfilNS Decorator HOUSE PAINTING PAPER HANGING North Point Road Near Eastern Ave. Phone, Back River 10 .....sand"" Bank Building Concrete Paving WASHED GRAVEL In Car, Scow and Bar(^xt>ts The Arundel Corporation Baltimore, Md. Main Office: Pier 2 Pratt St. Wharves: Pier 2 Pratt St., Foot F&l St. Bush Street, Arlington and Canton Phone, St. Paul 7120 |