.....
Eire Dangers in Factories. centrally.
The clothing factory as. in Bing-
lmmton by which deporsons or more
lost their lives and many others were
injured is another illustration. truly
nw lul. of the insecurity of the lives or
motory employee.
industrial accident prevention is
commanding the attention of the bent
minds of the day. But the: 01s no
peril by which so many lives may be
destroyed in a few moments, under
circumstances of indescribable horror.
that is equal to the fire peril.
Holocaustl Annually in Clothing
Factorial.
E‘- Pinkhun’ o Vegetable
Cotupoitnd-Her
Own Story. ‘
Westwood, Md. m“l am '. Insurer’s
wife and do most of my own work when
p I an able. I had i
' nervous spells, fee '
male weakness and
,tr down pains e‘vory
h‘ month I also suf~ '
feted much with my
-‘ right side. Thepniu
1' book:
my right side, and
the doctor told me it
was organic inflam-
As it happens the -'Blngbamton
Clothing" Factory adds merely one
more calamity to the record of dishes
tors in clothing factories. The coun-
try has come to expect almost an an-
nual holocaust in the business of
clothing manufacture.
in 1910 28 women and girls em-
ployed by n muslin underwear factory
in Newark. N. J., lost their lives. In
1911, HE women and girls employed
by a waist company in New York
city were burned to death or killed
by jumping from windows. In July,l
1913, the disaster in Binghamton. N
Y.. killed probably more than 65 per-
sons and maimed scores of others.
Since 1908, more than 350 fires
have occurred in clothing establish
meats in the United States. The
p: operty loos has exceeded :9 000. 000,
an average property loss per tire of
more than $26 000. When property
is being destroyed at this rate, in a
single industry. there are bound to
come times when wholesale losses of
. life will occur.
Problems Confronting the State of
New York and Other States.
in spite of the Asch building dis-
aster in New York city and the lee-
sons which should lime been learned
.from it. the-State of New York is now
face to face with another catastrophe.
State factm'y investigations. municipal
investigations. fire marshal activities.
fire prevention work Veto , failed to
prevent the Binghnmton disaster.
Great losses of life will always occur
as long as it is possible for lines to
gain headway rapidly and spread with
‘ dlmdst'm‘ci‘édible speed.
. How Losses of Life May Be Pre-
vented
Among insurance men and firemen,
after the Asch building fire. the opin-
ion was general that the spread of the
fire and the loss of life could have
been revealed by an installation of Practical testimony to the value ct irom. ”‘9 1’0““ M orinlu.
automatic sprinklers. . L .
Too much attention cannot be paid
to fire resistive construction. to the often reduced 50 per cent and more “‘9 premises
! operated in scales of thousands of fires
protection of windows and \ertical
openings, to equipments to detect and
extinguish fires, to fire drills to new) clothing lotteries have been :ccoided ”"5 Binghamton Clothing “Ct-0‘7- 3““
life and to fire drills to sale prop-
(ms The one purpose of a the drill ly, mam smaller fires have occurred a bundles WNW“ with ”mum“
to save life ‘5 to 990““! “80‘9““? at in this period. each of which might Statistics 0‘ fires and fire losses show
the moment of peril and to prevent a
panic. That (lire drills fall, on occa-
sions. the Binghamton case shows.
1
Nor are fire escapes to be relied on Jun. ll, F‘redericksburg. i’a. Liellowitv. this small overuse is the average of
i . 0 per line in clothing factory
on. frequently, they are neither plun-
mntion. I was sick every three weeks
andhsdtostayinbedfromtwotofour
days.
“It is with great pleasure I tell you
what Lydia E. ”Pinkham s Vegetable
Compound has done for me. I have fol-
lowed your directions as near as possi-
ble, and feel much betterthen I have ‘
felt for years. When I wrote you be-
relwas almost a wreck. You can
publish this letter if u like. It may
help to strengthen e faith of some
poor suffering woman. "—oMra. J our: F.
Ricunnos, Westweod Maryland.
Women who suffer from those dio- ‘
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should
not doubt the ability of Lydia E. Pink-
hsm' I Vegetable Compound to restore
‘their health.
ml! “you have the slightest doubt:
Lydia E. Pinkliam'o Vegeta-
leCompoundwill hot you write
to Lydia E.Plnkham edic noOo.
(confidential )Lynn. Massafor ‘
I ice.11’our letter will be opened.
read and answered by a woman.
Indh din strict confidence.
ned properly nor constructed properly.
When large numbers of operatives are
to be conducted to safety. the bestl
type of fire escape is the mailed
stmighbrun or the ere-culled Philadei
phia tower A division wall which pen-l
mite employee to gain time by getting
on the side of swell opposite to the
fire is often effective.
Protection by Quick Fire Ex- '
tingulshment.
l
But the device known as the auto-
matic sprinkler is naturally first
thought of. by all who are familiar
with the controlling of flms,»as afford
lug pésltive protection in the greateet’
number of casein The value of auto-;
‘matio sprinklers lies in the fact that.
it is on the spot ready to extinguish.
the fire without any human old. it‘
saves lives Just as it saves property.
in one way. and in one wsv only,
namely. by extinguishing the ii.“ a.
sprinkler systems is afforded b\ the
fact that insurance premiums are
when sprinklers are installed.
Since January 1.1013. 16 fires in
by Safety Engineering. Undoubted-
have de\ eloped into a disaster.
; Clothing Factory Fires in 1913.
& Company. Loss, 830.000.
Still in The Lead
For over fifteen yeirs Grape—Nuts, the pioneer health cereal. has had no equal. either
in flavour or nutrition.
~ ThOusands of iamil‘ea
use it regularly because
From
"in
Jan. 23. ‘
Pu.
Bright lees. 3150.000.
Restored h “a”. by Lydia .Jan. so. named. Pa. Cumberland
Ll .
L". terrible bearing .
theme the fearful Blugharfinton catas-
V'slopped before it had spread ten feet
q Manufacturing company. Imus. ills-V
000.
Ashiand. Hunter ‘ F'.
l
Shirt Manufacturing Company. hem
$150,000.
Feb. .Kansas ensue."
Oil lemming Company
000.
March 7. Philadelphia. “Pa.
iltlttman. Loss. 326,000.
March 28. South “River, N. J: Marl:
it Dovlson. loss, 815.000.
April 27, St. Paul. Minn.
hSous. Loss, :75. 000
V You had better stop at urine or
Western
LoseVVVlfl- area. it may be your turn next.
Joseph
“ briety and industry
shormnh
That the year is clear of a seriousmf dollars a year, with long lists of .
death toll is due to the fortunate and
early discovery of the fire in the King
Shirt Waist Company‘s factory
Newark, N. 3., which burned Marchinocesslty for preventing losses by fire,
10, 1912. One hundred girl employee by safe construction, the installation
escaped safely though by a narrowlof automatic equipments which means
margin.
‘kilied and Wounded. V
1 Safety Engineering is doing what
compared with 1911.Duriug the year‘. dents. The same methods which make
lthe frequency of thus was nearly it lives safer in clothing factories and in ' '
leach week and the property loss to all other factories will give protection ‘ '
im girls and boys and young men and
Clothing factories are in the front young women in the schools and coins .
taled nearly $2. 000 000.
rank of rapidly burning industries loses; to guests in hotels and to pen
The causes of the fires are mainly due{ sons in all other pieces were ser ’
to defective administration and house fire dangers exist. ,
keeping. The fires destroy entire
buildings because the buildings in ari-
ably are not designed constructed nor
0 quippcd with devices to quickly arrest
fire in its incipient stages. V
if the froliuency of clothing factoryV
fires in 19l3. so far, has been lessl
la in th lltl is
than in five years. this record pales“ re o te bomtori‘es, the men
«- ‘1 I.
.....
BY DR. ROSIWELL. NRK.
_-....
trophe
'i lobnbly the Binghamton fire or the
tslh building fire would hate been
by Dr. Roswell Park. the physician
if a carefully
’designed and carefully installed auto-
matic sprinkler system had been on
Sulh systems have
just returned from an unofficial visitl
to the Canal Zone.
in buildings as hazardous as that 0! large amount of his time to the forth
coming international Congress on
School Hygiene. which is to be held at
Buffalo the last week in August, and
accordingly on his recent visit to Pau-
uma he was specially interested in
what is being done for the benefit of
the school children.
that the same care which surrounds
and protects the adults in Panama is
no less of life by fire has occurred in
an average property loss of only $300
in clothing factories equipped with
automatic sprinkler systems. Against
——
"w“ hygiene at the Isthmus is simply a
part of the concern of public welfare.
be brought so prominently to the at-
ing congress in Buffalo.
New York, “since the last death in the
other words it has been effectually
stamped out.
uses of that region have been. in time:
STRONG wo“o& M. mull”. End yellow IB‘I’QF.
a Doctor with so Years Ex-
porionoo.
my 40 yeara‘ experience an it
nice of mosquito.
lish officer. who first discovered the
1 "Every house in which government
employee are permitted to live is our-
‘ rounded by a wire screen. and each
house is lifted from the around.
this way insects are absolutely etcluld~
ed; not a mosquito is to be seen. and
anomaly a fly. L
“Even yet the public has very little
comprehension of what it has meant
you]; lose your Job Everyline crime to bring sanitation to this degree of
mess is elosiuu lts doors to ‘iDrinkins" i perfection in this previously badly in-
By footed Zone.
the aid of ORRINE thousands of men ' time post that the Cantu enterprise has
have been restored to lives of so- least a man every time the Panama
lrailroad runs a car.
we are so sure that ORR‘lNE will Lated. but it might be almost literally
. benefit you that We say to you that if . true to say every other time. There is
after a trial you fail to get any bone 1 for instance a station n‘ear‘the Pacific.
in from its use, your money will be end 01' the road called (Metamhin,
it has been stated
his onlcial staff have made that parish of man over the forces or a
bio without which the enterprise could applies to disease moduli
not possibly have accomplished. nameV as well as to meohn‘ole
1!. they have made the isthmus livo- diet the public not toast
able and the entire enterprise uracil: think Panama canal L
cable.
attention to that which concerns their‘
health and in which they ought to be
most of all interested. they ought to'
.be made aware of this and need to be
taught to appreciate it. The same care
which surrounds and protects
adults is given to the children,
school hygiene on the isthmus is sim-
ply aV part of the concern for public'
welfare.
in
This is intense!e
way are in enforcing attention on the
partial the ignorant and bsulnhted us-
tives of tropical regions, who have to
The public pays such meager the surface of this enormous
mental work is the minute null
taking investigation in the re
V cause of disease. in the lithium) l
. lee where men are hidden fro
observation and where. they
themselves with the study of V L
germs and culture methods and I '
use of the microscope. And let
not forget also that the heroism’
iplayed by those who have too _
lives in this sort of study is easel
any heroism displayed upon the hilt,
field or anywhere else. In fact
superior to it because it concern
the
and
"The principal difficulties in that
in, it can to impress upon the people the
safety and the organization and drill .
But 1912 was a moderate year as of eniployes to prevent tires and acct _ ,
' PANAMA HEALTH VWORK AS SEENi ‘
LEE.
Dr Park is at present devoting nl T
Dr. lpnl‘k found ‘
given to the children, and that school -
the kind of public welfare which will
teniiou of the world at the forthcom- ‘ ’
"it is almost seven years ago to the
day." said Dr. Park, the other day. in .
canal zone region by yellow fever. lu .
The two principal dis-T ‘ '
The _ .
carriers of both of these are a one A ,
it waslltoss, an mnu- V
Grape-Nuts
Has qualities which make
it the ideal food“—
Delicious Flavour,
Rich Nourishment,
Quick Preparation,
a.“
and withal. easily digested.
Grape Nuts and cream. in place of heavy. in-
digestibie food. helps to make one cooler and
more comfortable on hot days. and builds body
is.
ahd‘brairl' in a way ,,that gives zest and energy.
lonelier and practitioner along hygi~
ruin linen," says a Western physician.
"l have never found a food in com-
Lpnre with Grape Nuts for iho benefit
of the general health of all classes
of people.
"i have recommended Grape Nuts
for a number of years to patients
with the mutant success and overs
years experience makes me more on
tlmsiuetic regarding its use
'l make it a rule to always recom-
mend Grape-Nut: and Posture in
.plme of coffee. when giving my po-
ilouis instructions as to diet for l
linoe both Grapcrmits and i’nstum
can he digested by anyone.
"As for myself. when engaged in
much mental work my diet twicen
day consists of Grape-Nuts and rich
cream. I find it just the thing to
build up and keep the brain in good
working order.
"in addition. GrapeNuis always
keeps the digestive organs in e. per-
foot healthy tone.‘ Name given by
Canadian Posters 00.. Windsor. Oar
Strong endommnis like the above
from physicians all over the ebiintry
have stamped Gmpefiuts‘“ the most
scientific food in the world.
‘There’s a Reason” for Grape-Nuts
Sold by Grocers worywhjre.
relation of the mosquito to malaria.
Surgeon, who made out the name re«
lotionship for yellow fever. the die
tyr to science and true altruism.
“The actual expense of conducting
the sanitary department of the Canal
lode has been nowhere near that
which has been popularly supposed to
exist. It has been quite generally stat-
ed in the public press that these or-
twenty million dollars. Actually they
have not exceeded four million dollars,
money been applied to better one
poses. liven in the expenditure of this
sum the cost of the sanitary depart
meat on dolonei (Jo-their has immis-
loivaly hinted. is to be separated from
.what may be called the cost of saniti-
ties. The so... of conducting a large
a day per also. The public should
it other
.mwpn this means.
vermin
and it was Reid, a United States Army
case, which in its investigation. he
himself contracted and died. a man ..
penises have amounted to thorium of _
end never in the world‘s history has ‘ ’
department, Vpnd later comprising the ~ .
actual cost to the individual in liilln- L ,
main; his own healthwngurod mlu- ,
' only this cost is practically one cent
Offer Into Your Home
April 29. Delhi Out. govemgn Mitt refunded. .L {where 1.200 Cinnamon died in one be practically lifted out o! the the giving deliberately. from stem on.
Glove & Robs Company. Loss, When you stop "Drinking," think of camp of yellow fever some years ago. filth in which they live and separated tion of duty toward others. and
525.000. the money you ll save; besides, sober The very name implies the fact since from the filthy environments to which devoid of the glamour and it V, L,
today 30. Chicago ill Ederhehner men are worth more to their employ. Mater in lSpanish means ‘kill' and.they are accustomed. in this sense it which comes to men who are
Stein & Comp“; ‘lloes :25 000 ' era and get higher wages. ,‘chin' is short for Chinaman, Mater» becomes almost smatter of vetlnarlan public eye. All praise. than. toV
' ' ' ' Costs only $1.00 a box. We have an chin means. therefore, 'dead China- medicine. since left to themselves they men who, like Dr Walter Reid.“
June 7' Pittsburgh, Pa. Caddock intgresting booklet about 03.31pm man.’ would live but little better than do the United States Army. and othnn.
lShirt Company. Ines. $5.0M- thst we are giving away free on 1-9.. “it is not saying too much that the cattle. lsacriilced themselves in the _
June 1 21. Detroit, Mich. Sunless quest Call at our store and talk it sanitary department under the superb: “Nowhere and never in the world's ment of knowledge. which a no. '
Bros. loss, $25,000. over . .mansxement of Colonel Goethals and history has there been such triumph property of the world at tarsal?
June 30, Willimantic, Conn. Con- Parker Pharmacy . Wm»..- M; ~«~-~~---~--—t MW“..- «m» -- ..... L
2333“ “cm" Cmmy- W“- 8 NW Mei“ "'89"; r: :;‘:::;:;: :::,:.:,:,:,:>:‘:,:,: :,:r:::::.:,:;:‘:‘:<:::.:.:.:’:.: ::: .7.
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July 4. Baltimore. Mr. ll Freuden 9V V,
thnl. Loss, 830.000- fires as a whole during the last live 3! . V ,
July 22, Binghnmton, N. Y. Bing years i T! . . " . '
hamton' Clothing Contpnny. leixty- Slhconltruotion and Equipment. ‘V‘ V. .
five lives lost, other injured. boss. Schools and colleges are burning at; U .
3100.000. , Vule rate or nearly $3,000,000 a year; 2 S! ‘ ‘ “ '
Nourish-Fortunate Escape in l912. and destroying "V9“; hospitals and .u ‘
asylums are burning at the rate of H
Clothing factory fires happened $1,000.000 a ‘yearwand destroying u . ' 0
weekly during 1912. The property; lives; factories of all kinds are burn- ‘-‘ I tart IS r eat
losses amounted to fully 81,000.000.Vi ing at the rates of scores of millions 5
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