Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-11
FIRE PREVENTION
EXHIBIT HELD HERE
Bureau of combustibIes Shows
Cause, Effect and Preven-
ton of Blazes.

Fire Prevention Day. was marked
today by q noteworthy exhibition in
the City Hall of the causes, effects
and preventives of fire.
The exhibit was arranged by the
bureau of combustibles and fire risks
in the board room at fire headquar-
tiers at the City Hall.
There were a number of visitors
during the day. A delegation of fire.
men from Paterson came especially
to view it,
The exhibition will be continued to-
morrow when a large number of
school children are expected to visit
il in order to learn the lessons of fire
prevention so effectively taught by
the display.
This is merely u beginning said
Captain c. Albert Casser, head of
the bureau. I'VE have used only our
own materials, articles which have
come to us in the line of investiga-
tion. Each exhibit has its particular
story and its cause and effect is iln-
pressed upon the minds of the inspec-
tors.
eThe building department has been
most cooperative in showing its en-
tire series Of blank forms and cards
and the bureau of electricity is rep
resented in its literature.
I'VE haven't gone into the matter
of approved devices for the proven
ton of fire because this covers a
largo field and the time since the
governors proclamation has been too
short To do justice to this subject.
III the exhibition is repeated next year
we will be able to give Newark manu-.
facturers an opportunity of showing
just what is made here in the way OF
fireproof tanks, cans, building ma
4erial and kindred articles.
."Our idea is to help in the general
education of the public and If folks
are interested enough TO visit the
board rooms we are more than IN
terested enough to show them what is
being done"
4 few "don'ts for the prevention
of fire:
Don't throw lighted matches away
without looking where you throw
them.
Don't leave rags smeared with paint
and oils lying about the place.
Don't use the old-time sulphur
match: use the safety match.
Don't throw lighted cigarettes
away: extinguish them first.
Don't put kerosene oil on dull IRE.
Don't use stove polish that contains
benzine or gasoline.
The above are a few of the Don T.
signs displayed at the exhibition in
exhibit will last until tomorrow, and
it is the desire of the commissioners
that everyone interested in the safety
of their homes and factories visit the
exhibition. The exhibit comes as the
aftermath of q proclamation of the
governor making November IL fire
prevention day.
AS you enter the department head
quarters you are greeted by one of
= Off a Of ia
of combustibles, who guides you
the various articles of interest dis
the vorious articles 'of interest dis
played The five, guides are James
L. Jenkinson, Martin j. Hoppe,
Thomas Cunning, Thomas tagen and
Frederick Herzig, assistants to In
spector of Combustibles and Fire
Risks C. Albert Gasser
Newark is one of two cities in the
State that maintain this bureau, the
other being Jersey City, where there
is but one man assigned to that de-
partment, While Newark has six who
devote all of their time in the pre-
vention of fires and teaching the
manufacturers how to prevent them
in their factories. All OF the men
are experts,
The exhibit includes different
things picked up by the men at.
different fires they have attended,
fireworks that are tabooed in New
ark spontaneous combustion ma
terials found in different factories
and garages. cartridges and powder,
etc Each exhibit is labeled and an
explanation of its use and misuSes
attached, making everything plain
to the interested parties. From the
time the exhibit was opened this
morning until o'clock this after
noon more than a hundred persons
visited the rooms.
One of the most interesting exhib-
its is that showing thin wooden
partition between two offices or
rooms with a stovepipe running
through the partition. There are two
models. one showing the wrong way
to run the pipe through the partition,
and the other the proper way of do
ing so. Application blanks that are
filled out by every manufacturer and
garage in Newark are on exhibition,
showing that the deartment knows
at all times Just what building or
factory contains and where 1t IS