The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-04
HOW TO PREVENT FIRES.
Some Valuable Hints and Suggestions.

Daring the winter season, when every
any time to exceed their legitimate pur-
pose, great care must be exercised in pre-
venting fires, and as many of them are
attributable 10 carelcssEess and Ignorance,
VIC republish the following hints and sug-
gestiOns from the New York Independent:
We have never seen complete set of
rules or suggestions for the prevent IN of
fires. There should be one TO accompany
every fire insurance policy. 1t ought to
be in such form as to be posted in every
house, so that each member of the house
hold could see it daily.
At the risk of not even approaching the
subject, We submit the following rules
The leading causes of fire are kerosene
oil, matches and furnaces:
1. Always buy the best quality of oil
,. Never make a sudden motion with
a lamp either in lifting it up or in setting
it down.
3. Never place lamp on the edge of
table or mantel.
L. Never fill lamp after dark, even if
you should have 70. go without a
light
s. See that the lamp wicks are always
clean, and that they work freely in the
tube.
6. Never blow out lamp from the
top.
T. Never take a light to closet
| where there are clothes. II necessary
to go to the closet, place the light at a
distance.
s. Use candles as much as possible
in going about the house They are
cheaper, can't explode, and for very
many purposes are Just as good as
lamps.
8. Matches should always be kept in
stone or earthern Jars or in tin.
10. They should never be left where
rats or mice could get at them. There
is nothing more to the taste of raj
than PHOSPHORUS. They will eat it il
they can get at it, A bunch of matches
is almost certain to be caught on fire il
a rat gets at it.
IL. Have perfectly good safes in
every place where matches are to bl
used, and never let match be left Oh
the floor.
| 12 Never let match go out of YOU
hand after lighting it until you are sure
the fire is out, and then it is better to put
it out in stove or an earthen vessel.
| 49, 1t is far better to use the safety
matches, which can only be lighted on the
box which contains them.
IA. Have your furnaces examined
carefully in The fall, and at least once
during the winter by a competent person
All of the ffues should be carefully looked
into
house near chimneys or flues, which there
ought not to be, put nothing of com
bustible nature in them. Such closets vii
soil silver and crack crockery and burr
bedding. They form bad part of an,
house that contains them.
16. Never leave any wood near fur
mace, range or stove to dry.
IT. Have your stoves looked to fire.
quently, to sec that there are no holes TO
Goals to drop out.
/ Is Never put any hot ashes or coal il
a wooden receptacle.
10. Be sure that there are no curtain
or shades that can be blown into gas
light.
Fires, of course, arise from other cause
than those we have stated. Smokers burr
up much valuable property, which is no
in the shade of cigars. Bunches offoileC
rags of the most inanimate nature il
themselves still perform the most wonder
full feats in the destruction of property
Tramps, with their old pipes, viii cree
into baIns and haymows, and servant
will be careless in thousands of WAYS, Blu
if every person who owns property vii
give the subject attention, and see tina
those around him are posted, and see tba
reasonable rules are always observed