Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-04-01
DIRECTIONS
For preventing calamities By
+ IRE.

FIRE.
Recommended By the e MaFachufet.. Fire soci.,r
1. Keep your ehimnies and stove nine
cIean,by sweeping ihena atleast once ever,
month.
2. Never remove hot ashes in wooas,
vessel of any kind, and look we'll to vour
ash hole.
3. Alter sweeping a hearth, see that The
brush doesnot retain any particle St Gre
before you hapg iflp in any usual place,
4. Cblige all your servants to 90 to bed
before you, every night, and inspec, ali
your fire places before yon retire TO resi-,
For fear OF accidents, let bucket Of water
be left IN your kitchen every night, The
writer OF these directions once saved
house from being consumed by fire by this
precaution.
S. Do not permit servant to 7earrya
candle 10 his bed room, if he sleeps in an
upholstered garrett.
g. Cover up your FIRE carefully every
night in ashes. Let the unbdrnt parts Of
the bllle,s or chunks Of wood BIZ placed
next the hearth, but cot set upright in the
corners, by which means no sparks will
be emitted from the wood. Pour little
water upon the burning ends of the wood
which are not completely covered by the
ashes. Place before the fire fender made
of sheet IRON. This contrivance was well
known in England many years ago, by the
name Of Coverseu. 1t has lately received
(from top being added to III the name OF
hood.
7 Remove papers ard linen from near
the fre, to aremote part of theroom.
6. Shut the doors of all the rooms ia
which you leave 6resat night. BY thus ex.
Guiding the supFlyoffresh air,you will pre-.
vent fame being kindled, should acoal
or spark fall upon the floor, or upon any OF
the conbusiible matter in the room. Inc
smoke which issues from this smolhered
FIRE, will find its way in every part OF the
house, and by waking the family, may save
1t from destruction.
g. If sickness, or any ether cause should
oblige you to leave candle burning al
night, place it in sucha situation as to De
OUT of the way of rats. A house was once
destroyed by rat running away with
lighted candle for the sake OF the taio"'
aud conveying i, into hole filed with rags
and imAammable matters.
10. Never read in bed BY candle llgn'
especially if your bed be surrounded 0y
curtains.
II. Strictly forbid the use of segar IN
your family at all times, bu. especially q.
ter night. MAY not the greater frequency
of fires in the United States than IN former
years, be ascribed, in part, 10 the more
general use Of segars, BY careless Servants
and children I? There is good reason 10 DC.
lieve, house was lately set on hre oy
half consumed segar, which woman 'nfe"
away, to proven, bring detected 10 the uD'
healthy and offensive practice OF smoaK'ns'
II, Leave your shutters open ID ''''
rooms where fire has been kept.
In case of FIRE, attend to the following a.
rections, to pteven: orrestrala It's 'sff''
bic consequences. 49,,
1. Do not open the room or closet dool,
where you suspect the FIRE to be, until y0S
nave secured your family and most Va'ua
lie effects. nor uati YOU have collected
,uantity of water to throw on the hre' ~"
moment fresh supfly OF air exc''e'
nto fame. Where water caanot co',s
,iea,ly be had, try to smother the hfe =
hrowlng two or three blankets over u:
British sea captain once saved AMe
ship, by throwing himself, with Ip had
Blanket in his arms, upon FIRE which n "a
broken out near the powder room ,ni
vas psosioned for life for THIS "''' "'
ACT.