Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-11-06
PRECf UTIONS AGAINST FIRE.
GENERAL HINTS IN CASE OF FIRE, AND on
MEANS OF PREVENTION.

Mr.. John l.. Durkee, Fire Marshal of
San Francisco, in closing his tenth annual
report to the Board of Fire Underwriters OF
that city, presents the following sugges-
tons to the public as the result of his OBJ
servatiou and experiences:
/. BE well acquainted with the best
means Of escape from your house, both at
the top ard the bottom.
2. DO not yet confused; admit no one to
your house except firemen, policemen, or
neighbors.
3. Ifa lady's or childs dress takes fire,
eudeavor TO roll the person up in rug,
carpet, or any piece of wooden stun
4. Keep all doors and windows closed
until the Bremen arrive.
8. Always keep in your bedroom piece
OF rope sufficiently long to reach the side
walk, in case vnu cannot make your exit
by the stairway.
O. IL YOU cannot make your way from a
building bv tue stairway, endeavor to get
in n front TO lm, and he careful To keep all
doors shut behind you, for smoke will fui-
low dran, and flames the smoke. If
smoke enters tue room aud 1t is difficult To
stand erect, get your mouth as close to the
floor as possible, and breathe easy, as there
Is always fresh current of air near the
floor. A wet cloth over the mouth will
greatly aid breathing.
Z. In getting smoke from room, al
ways open the upper portion of window.
8. In case of fire in a theatre, or any
place where numbers of persons are, keep
perfectly cool, and do all you can to pre-
vent panic, as there is generally plenty of
time To escape it there il no panic.
o. Do moi 20 into a building where there
Is thick smoke ii Won can help 1t, without
saturated sponge in your mouth, or a
wet cloth or handkerchief over month and
nose.
10. In ascending or descending a ladder,
do so with regular step, To prevent vibra
ton.
IL. Have metal or earthen vessels for
matches, aud keep them out OF the reach of
children. Wax matches are not safe.
II. Never leave small children ina room
alone where there are matches or an open
fire.
ID. Do not deposit ashes in wooden
vessel or upon wooden flor.
II. Never use Il light in examining a
gas meter.
10. Never take light into closet.
10. Never smoke or read ia bed lay can
die ar lamp light.
IL. Never put kindling wood on the top
of stove to drv.
Is. Never leave clothes near CRATE or
fire place to dry.
10. BE careful in making fires with
shavings, and never use any kind oi oil To
kinde a fire.
90. Keep all lights as far from curtains
as possible.
81. Never pour out liquor near an open
light.
-. Always ill and trim your lamps by
daylight, and never near a fire.
%. Never blow out n fluid lamp.
"a. Never allow fluids used for lamps 10
be kept in room where light or fire il
used.
~, Always try vour coal-oil by pouring
a little of it in a saucer or cup. aud II YOU
can make it burn with match or q piece
fpaper do not use it.
90. Put wire work over your g1s-light4
in show windows, and keep your goods
from them.
%. Bcnzine. naptha, gasoline. camphenc.
varnish, tnrpentine, ethereal oil, &c, should
never be drawn by candle or lamp light.
or in a room where there il fire.
%. Sand in place of saw-dust should hc
used on the floors Of oil stores. drug stores,
&c.
90. Always use closed lantern. and
never allow smoking in hav- barns, stables.
warehouses, or in stores where goods are
closely packed.
so. Always keep shavings and fine
kinding wood away from steam-bnilers
and furnaces.
81. Keep Ions, cupboardS. corners, box
ca, &c, tree FROM greasy rags.
-. Before leaving vour place Of bust
ness see that all lights and fires arc out.
30. Before going 10 bed see that all your
lights and fires are ont, and that no ashes
have boon placed in any wooden vessel.
"a. See that Your stovepipes enter well
in the chimney.
To the above, the members Of the Brattle-
boro board OF Engineers add the fDllowin .
sugCeStions:-
Stove pipes to enter chimney four inches
at least from any wood work.
Cotton or wooden rags saturated with oil,
or oil and turrcntine are especially dan
gcrous, and should be Immediately burned.
Keep your chimneys clean.
Foul chimneys are the cause Of a large
per cent. of fires.
\ Washington despatch says that the
friends Of Judge Poland of Vermont, are
urging him as a candidate for judgeship
on the supreme bench of the District oi
Columbia, n place which could he made
vacant by the transfer OF Judge Humph-
reys TO the United States district judgcship
of Alabama, which Judge Busted has re-
signed.