The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-11-30

Greatest loss per mOnth....... 6.1Ol 600
Average insurance per month l .8O3 O0O
| Least insurance per month";. 200. 900
Greatest insurance per moth. ), 3,l5O, 600
1t must be born in mind that the pro.
portion of the above property that is in.
sured is much larger than is here indi-
Gated, the amount Of insurance not be-
ing in all crses recorded.
THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRES.
In 752 cases, the origin Of these fires
was known or suspected, and here the
most marked difference is ob.ervable
between the large cities, where the
buildings are for the most part substan-
tial brick or stone structures and more
or less guarded by constant passers and
by police. aud the less thicl:ly popuIa.
ted localities, where wooden structures
offer premium to incendiarism. Care-
les.ness or accident predor mates in
the former and maliciou. mischief in
the latter.
Incendiarism the country over Is by
far the most frequent cause Of con-
fiagrations. Nearly one-half Of those
whose origin is reported, were either
known or suspected to be designedIy
fired. and if we make liberal allow
ance for the natural assumption of
crime when other causes appear to be
absent, we are still left with from one
fourth to one third due to this agency
1t Ia interesting also to observe the class
Of buildings selected by the scoundrels.
From one-half to three fourths of the
barns aud stables are thus destroyed.
Carpenter and carriage shops, wood
making establishments whose contents
and character offer peculiar attractions
to the incendiary, suffer heavily.
Bridges and hotels, especially where
these are unoccupied, country stores,
whether for the sake of plunder or re-
coverv of insurance, stand out amorg
the rest.
Kerosene oil GENES next on the list.
Nearly all the kerosene refineres are
destroyed by their own oil taking fire.
Dwellings, stores and saloons, especi.
source than from any other except ar
son.
Defective chimnsys stand third, an Il
as might be supposed dwellings are
among the principal sufferers from this
cause. The great majority Of bakeries
are fired either from their chimneys or
ovens Breweries, schools AMI semi
naries of learning are prominent, aud
the others.
From stoves and stove pipes we find
losses prevailing in stores to greater
extent than from the chimneys, and in
dwellings not so much. Churches
where they are heated by this mea ms,
are shown to he particularly liable to he
burned, 50 also appear to be tobacco and
cigar manufactures. Furnaces also are
frequently bres iers Of fire in churches,
aud to Il considerable extent, though
not so great, in dwellings.
Spontaneous combustion carries off
many OF the cotton and woolen mills,
notwithstanding the presence of that
well-known incendiary. the Picker !;
and frequently the barns. Lightning
is especially fatal to barns, and steam
engines to planning mills.
Other prominent causes Of fires are
found in dwellings, from children play
ing with matches, and from sparks fall
ing on the roof from the chimneys In
the gas jet of city stores coming in con
tact with the Fabrics ; in the malt ki!ns
OF breweries; in explosions of gas In
the basement of city stores and dwell
lings; in the drying rooms and kilns of
the various wood working establish
ments, and in the picker rooms Of wool
Ell mills. These facts. many of them
familiar, others not ST. generally known,
deduced from our tabu lated record may
serve to direct the underwater in many
cases to the speciel sources of danger.
The following tabulation will show the
bearings of some Of the principal sourc
es of danger on the whole. or a total
Of 752 fires throughout the United
| States,
Incendiarisni caused over. 200
Kerosene and other oils caused......... s.
Detective chimneys scaused.............. "A
Stove and stove pipes caused. d............ 80
Spontaneous combustion caused. ...... q
Furnaces caused.............. ................ II
| Steam engines NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. lG
--Insurdnce Monitor.
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