The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-18

WAREHOUSES;. STUDIES, HOIStS, Cpht bNohof
and mine properties.
The National Board of Fire Under
writer's was, at the outbreak of war,
asked by the government to cooper
ate in the effort that the government
is making to combat the fire menace.
The national board has devoted the en-
tire work of majority of its officials
and fire experts to the government
service, and its inspectors today cover
every part of the country, investigat
ing all fires, regardless of whether the
properties, damaged or destroyed, are
insured or not. These investigations,
made in every instance by men expert
in fire investigation, show that the loss
due to fires of incendiary or suspicious
origin which have involved the loss Of
100000 or more in war munitions or |
equipment has totaled, since April J., /
$40 55S,000.
! IN April the destruction or damage, |
due to fires involving a loss Of $780, !
600 or more, amounted to $3.50, 900. |
In that month there were twenty four
great fires in the country, and these
| fires occurred in fourteen different
states. The fire which entailed the
| heaviest loss was when grain elevators
| DESTROYED. The value of the grain Gle
vators destroyed in that one month
totaled 81 100000. The oil loss due to
incendiarism amounted to $4,000;
foundries, machine shops, and ear shops
worth 100000 went up in flames, while
the loss to the coal and coke industry
totaled 100000.
In May the total loss showed a fall.
ing off of nearly 100000 1t was
in May that the lumber incendiary
first got to work, and the report for
the month shows that the damage ne
accomplished totaled $1,1O0,00o. May
also introduced the chemical incendiary.
and the total loss to the chemical in
dustry in the second month Of the war
was 100000.
The loss in juno was s. 100000, and
$ of this amount $1,000 900 represented
mine property losses in Montana. The
lumber loss in June was $65o,000, the
0 grain total was 100000 gasoline to the
total value of $350,000 was burned up
Y and the chemical industry s loss was
f. increased by another 100000. The
! automobile figures for the first time in
: the June report when an automobile
i factory in Reading, Pa, valued at
r $250,000 was destroyed.
In July the figures began to climb
; and the total loss due to incendiarism
. or suspicious causes was 4,140, 600
+ The July losses include oil properties
valued at 100000, 100000 cotton
r compress plant. a wooden mill wortl
100000, elevators and warehouse.
valued at 100000, a $3.50, 900 suga
20 mill, and shell and shipbuilding proper
: ties of a total value of $4,000, ant
& dye works worth $4,000 and $250,00t
70 i'll tanneries.
- August was one of the enemy incen
ri diary 5 best months, his total destruc
ton that month entaihng a loss o
~ S5,l01,000, 50 100000 of which was SUI
fered by the oil industry. The enem
r. ALSO destroyed his first gun-cotton plan
4 in August, when a factory valued a
~ 800 600 at Gary, Ind, was destroyed
There also occurred in August fir
i which destroyed ships and piers i
in Brooklyn worth + 100 600 .,a, 80 81.
49, In September the fire loss due to tn
m enemy incendiary were the smallest c
~ any month since the war started TIL
ON total for that month was only $2,S7j
"a. u6J, and Of this amount $1,000, 600 W.
N due to the destruction of lumber mil
,lv and other lumber properties. Thel
= was also a second big sugar fire, entail
as ing a loss of 100000.
The enemy made up in October fl
what he failed to accomplish in Sc
TENDER, the destruction in October b
20 ing the greatest of any month sin,
800 April. The total was $500 600.
10 Loss i'll grain and flour industr
80 amounted to $2,s50,000. The big Bs
100 timore fire which destroyed piers al
800 supplies worth $4,000 also occurr
80 in October, as did also the $500
l25 stockyarda fire in Kansas City. r
poo cotton industry suffered a loss of $72
- 900 in October; the chemical loss W
BIO 100000, and the loss to the lumb
tbr trade was $4,000.
"A The total in November was ST IS
tos GOO, which included a 100000 .;
II cline plant in West Virginia. a vi
In manufacturing plant in New Yo
los valued at $l,l00,000, cotton propert
.oai valued at 100000 and a 5000
ron munitions plant at New Kensingt
;ani Pa.
toc. In December the total was So, 10
ond 000 This included drydocks in BroC
rds lyn worth $1,000,000, government wa
~ houses worth 1925 600, chemical wol
" IT, valued at $350000, lumber propert
.-on of 100000, $4,000 tannerv, and
,inr 100000 sugar mill.