Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-09-26
ELABORATE PLANS
MADE FOR FIRE WEEK
Activities Expected to Prove
Revelation for Residents
of City.

Final plans for Fire Prevention
Week will be made at meeting or
the various civic organizations en-
braclng Fire Chief 1.utz's organization
for Fire Prevention Week. nj the head
quarters OF Fire Company No. 1, lois
ratnan street tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock by Chief Lutz, who Is de-
sirous that every club. and organiza-
tion interested In making the anair
the success 1t deserves to he shall
attend this meeting. for It will be the
last one prior to next weeks demon
etration.
According to the plans which Chiet
Lutz has mapped out, the various ac-
tivities and demonstrations will surely
prove an eye opener FOR Wilmington
citizens In the way of defects that
exist in this city and some or the
means which every citizen can take TO
eliminate these hazards, and the ap-
pliances with which the local paid IRE
department has been able to so sue
cessfully check fires.
One OF the ways in which the house
hold and industrial plant defects Will
be brought home to the citizens. mer-
through QUESTIONABLE which the
committees representing The Century
Club, Young Ladies Catholic Club,
Catholic Daughters of America. Wash
ington Heights Century Club and Will
mington Section Council Of Jewish
Women will send out. There have
been 10000 questionnaires printed and
will be circulated in every household
of the city. When these are returned,
those which indicate that there Is n
fire menace of some character about
the home will be turned over to Chief
Lutz, and means win be taken to bring
TO the attention of the citizens where
they are maintaining not only men
ace to themselves I'm the way OF such
fire hazard but also TO their neigh
bors as well. Through this educa-
tional process, il is hoped 10 impress
the citizens with the necessity for inn
proving their home condition. and also
OF the activities of Fire Prevention
Week.
Every day next week, it is the in
tention of Chief Lutz TO send a mes
sage TO Mayor Harvey. containing IN
formation concerning Fire Prevention
Week and also Recommendations Which
may be Of use TO the community. In
sending the messages. Chief Iutz VIII
use apparatus from different fire COM
panies. and the apparatus bound fot
the Public Buildings. will be given
the right of way just as though II was
responding to an alarm of fire.
Chief I4utz and his men will conduct
n week of inspection of various stores
and plants and lots and buildings
throughout the city. The spots that
are found 20 be lsghly DANGEROUS with
piles of excelsior and wooden boxes
that may have been carelessly tossed
into Easements or other places where
fire might prove highly destructive
will be searched for and the owners
or lessees of the properties warned
to have them removed Special at
tention is going TO be given this year
10 the condition of chimneys and fiues
in an effort to reduce the number Of
alarms from faulty conditions that
particularly in the fall, when furnac,
fires are lighted. often result in FIRE:
IN chimneys. Because of the shortag,
of coal this fall many are preparing t,
burn wood, and this win create extr,
SCOT and consequent fire dangers.
The spectacular demonstrations O
the local fire department will be he'll
on Saturday October :. The waite
curtain of the Industrial Trust Com
pany will likely be shown TO illustrat
how such an adjunct proves valuabl
in case Of a big fire. Then there ar
the two 1,o00-gallon pumps OF the d
Pont building which can also be util
lied in case of fire. In addition ther
will be the display of fire apparatu
which the department uses whe
called upon 10 fight fires. and whicI
many citizens have not seen.
In arranging for Fire Preventio
Week this year, the general commit
tee comprising the various organiza
tlons interested have been divided int
sections in that each club or organi
zation has some specific work TO d