Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-09

fighting apparatus in convenient and
to start. Choicest of all, installation
of automatic sprinklers where at all
practical and possible.
Permit your committee to repeat
a suggestion made last year: Consult
the rate-making powers in your dis
trict and secure an itemized schedule
of your rate. You may find that you
are penalized several hundred dollars
each year in additional premiums
when spending few dollars will op-
crate to remove the defect entirely
IF any of our members desire to in
stall sprinkler systems. the secretary
will be glad to put them in commune
cation with men who have had valua-
| BILE experience in that line We would
recommend strongly that members of
this association whose plants are not
protected by sprinkler equipment give
| this matter most careful consideration
and not permit ordinary handicaps and
difficulties to deter them in putting
a tomato sprinklers in, thus protect
ing their property and insuring
against an expensive interruption to
their business.
eve would like to have the mem
bers of this association carefully con-
slider the relation of fire prevention to
the sales organization. We have all
worked hard and spent much money
to build up a name for our product; to
have dealers in all territories to rep
resent us and dispose of those same
products to the consumer. If your fac
tory is destroyed or retarded in oper
alton by fire, the goods cannot be fur
nished. Necessarily dealers, large and
small, must secure similar goods else
where, and the sales organizations
must spend more money and lose valu-
able time to recover former prestige.
"This indirect loss is, in our opin-
ion, the most serious phase of factory
fires.
"In conclusion we want to empha-
size the fact that to combat the haz.
ard of the risk is the surest way to re.
duce the rate. Stated more briefly:
Fight the risk and not the rate.
paul .Arbenz, Chairman"
Concerning Insurance.
The verbal report Of Mr.. Arbenz
follows:
Il received a letter as chairman of
the insurance committee from the
chairman of the executive committee,
Mr.. Kinney, advising me that COM
mittee had been appointed from the
National Protective Fire Association
to confer with our committee on the
subject of standardizing the buildings
used for implement and vehicle fac.
tories. He suggested that similar,
committee from this association be ap-
pointed to meet with them and asked
me as chairman to select my own
committee. l was fortunate enough to
secure Mr.. Butterworth and Mr..
Birmingham, but unfortunately Mr..
Birmingham was unable to attend the
meeting which we had last Tuesday,
befor the convention. We met with
Mr.. Blauvelt, who was the committee
from the National Fire Protective as
ISOLATION. am unable to make writ
ten report, because nothing definite
was arrived at by the conference, but
there were a few broad principles
which he suggested which pay be Of
value.
''Mr. Blauvelt made the statement
that no standardizing of factories of
our class could be accomplished ex-
cept that they all ought to be sprink-
Tered. Don't misunderstood me as re-
borting him as saying they must be
sprinklered, but that until they are it
will be impossible to form plan of
standardization for the factories.
80 the report Of the committee Is
simply this: that when buildings are
erected for the manufacture of nipple
ments and vehicles, the fact that they
may be sprinklered at some time If not
at the time they are built, should be
taken into account.
"A few general ideas were present
ed to be utilized, If possible. Sufficient
head room for sprinkler should be
provided. so that the loss of ware
house room would not be such large
item as it has been in some cases n
putting the sprinkler attachment in
factories where they were not design
ed for that purpose -yhen they were
built. Also to endeavor to keep the