The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-09
PRE- VENTION
AGENTS INSPE or
Properties Here and Will ASK
City Council TO Pass a
Rigid Ordinance.

After inspecting properties here,
twenty-four members of the West
Virginia Fire Prevention Association
held a general meeting at the Waldo
hotel Thursday night. The inspec-
ton was made for the purpose of
calling the attention of owners and
occupants in the mercantile sections
of the city to untidy and inflammable
conditions, accumulation OF waste
and trash and other dangerous but
easily preventable conditions Of such
premises with the hope that co-opera-
ton of citizens in the removal and
correction of the same would be Sc
cured.
When It is remembered that the
fire waste of the United States
amounts to some s25O,OOO,O annaul-l
ly, and that at least forty per cent
of 1t comes from such easily prevent
able sources as ,carelessness as to
rubbish trash, waste packing ma
.terlal defective electrical equip
ments, 1t manifests itself at once that
the work of this association is i'm
portant and the cooperation of the
public with it, means the saving of
money, property and life to the coun-
try generally.
The members of the association re-
mort thot tbo,y bnyo looD ,ooo,,II,,
courteously received, and that their
recommendation and suggestions
have been listened to with interest.
Three hundred and thlrty-fveI
places we're inspected and of them
there We're 1871 concerning which there
was no criticism, and 142 which were
found detective.
There was prevalence of the use
of rubber tubing to gas stoves and
other heating defices. Metal pipe is
recommended to replace this charact-
err OF connection. Accommodations Of
trash, waste, and rubbish are report
ed as existing in alleys. back yards,
easements and in building corners.
This is dangerous as it lends itself to
ready starting OF fires and the spread
ing of the same, There seems to be
considerable negligence as to the
keeping of gasoline in other than
safety cans and receptacles as well
as the keeping on the premises of
dangerous quantities of this very
volatile liquid. Many open gas Jets
were found in many places and To-
Gated in corners and easements, close
to wood work and with tips or man
teHs' or globes missing, and the wood
work of walls, joists and ceiling alb
solutely unprotected. Many places
were equipped with old and defective
electric wiring.
The above conditions are easily
corrected and their continued exist
ence being a menace not only to the
premises in or about which they do
exist, but to all surrounding prop
erty, they should be moved or rem
edied without delay.
City ordinances regulating the use
and storage of gasoline and other
Intiammable materials; the use of
rubber tubing connections to heating
devices; and regulating the cleaning
up of waste, trash and rubbish and
the prompt removal of same; and
preventing the use OF open and un-
protected gas lights in Easements and
closets should be promptly adopted
and enforced
The association calls attention to
the. fact also. that the burning OF
waste and rubbish in alleys and back
yards and close to buildings. is very
r dangerous and should not be per.
: United. :
i, The West Virginia association has
i no conueotioh with the making Of in.
: surance rates, their efforts being
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