New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-26

are another The marking of exits preferably by
6fd light lights Is further precautIon, The placing
VI SohSS IN ha!IWays Is another aid to safety <
study OF the reports shows that special precautions
so ptSsei'ng loss OF NE are rare Eighty colleges
LW%eny nine report fire drills Fourteen maintain
private PRIV fire brigades. Fourteen mention IRE Sig
m ao, len say that exits marked. Eight have
ssged special instructions to students Five have
Peiiiooca1 inspections OF apparatus. one prohibits
private heating and lighting
by colleges and universities Of sucb snhiac,
nrofec%i construction and adequate private fire
S t,tbie that efficient public departments are
less tba v'SS tali ne would make mistake No
80 tHdu sixteen colleges two miles or more
IRON IRON public fire houses. of which two are three
six miles away But these are not %n1 Two are
paSs, fOur or the sixteen colleges are respectively
seven miles. nine miles. thirteen miles and seven
dn66ar9r IN iogty-nine cases there is public fire
Ass dlSIance than one mile: one hundred and sixty
nartment canning an available public fire de
bTigadas. are dependent upon volunteer fire
ne a' .nrty-nve institutions be reached by
seventy-se depend upon the public fire alarm
have d,strtct i've private alarm systems; three
than Sa coeseS report no fire alarm system other
lege grounds. '' III poAes III the col
number OF fire hydrants available tells an
tWc 6RS to depend have
drants: twenty-nine have as man. DINERS three ny
nnve I'VE ana fifteen others have six: six heva
seven MIGRANTS and eleven have eight. tbrna ha ane
nine. While twenty-three have ten or more ''''o
b IS reports received indicate that the colleges
c,,ie 'nNe no dornitoTes chiefly in the larger
or the large cities are beyond the nrofec,Jn s
SupIlc rre departments O. any practcai y,n,,e
paratus ' N'Pei 'iiehts APP
inc dormitory buildings are mainly tbraa o,a
af stories IN height, brick construction predomi
per or persons reported domiced In On ~ s.
mas one hundred or more. Fire escanes seanr
n,,,nho 49,. PROVIDED In many cases but a large
Is but one stairway some have stairs RUE there
,,s sshuy larger number have Stare In tbraa
hmiit q, part or the building Stairs are mainly
PRIVATE hydrant protection "a cloin,., g., -,
thsss oit no great reliance should be placad On
supplies and lack trained men -, poor water
streams. AS TO portable apparaIna 20 hasue nre
@ INSIDE the buildings. chemical eYting,,,sbP 20
numbers. but nearly many collegoS ut eluai
having no inside private fire protection wbata,'
vided was ny, snec me portable apparatus pro-
cases the fire protection of the coIias number OF
my my superior 10 that OF the nearest town ~
NUMBER or colleges that maintain usan ne
and those that do not are about aya,, wa.,eiman
AS 10 precautions .or the prevention M ios
IN me event or nre, In most IL was W ne
only precaution Is fire escape ernaiI lips the
reported fire drills. and still smaller na, humber
small dormitory system whereby reatIvai'e ecu tue
building "sei III one
The reports indicate that about fo,r ,,
many colleges under the protectIon 90 zines as
teer fire departments as are hinder tha Noiun-
OF paid departments Nearly fifty are mnre 49, ION
bel seventeen miles from public tSu
large number OF the institutions there Is M o,bnr
means OF giving an alarm OF hre than by telephone
the ringing or bell. sending messenger fo IN.
nearest hre company. etc. In more than a hundrad
cases nve nre MIGRANTS less are availabJe for
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