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Chicago Has Arson Trust. FIRES A NATIONAL CRIME have full power, including that of ar- Leopold. Dreyfus, a clothing mer- rest." chant of Chicago, who has confess- EDWARD MARSHALL. ed that he had employed a gang of NEW YORK'S CHIEF TALKS OF men to fire his establishment in ENORMOUS, NEEDLESS WASTE. Quick Work.

south Market street, on Saturday E. K. Longley's residence burned night, shot and himself thia ij-ne Annual Losses in Money and on APril 17tn- Tuesday he notified morning. Lives Resemble Those of War. ne National Mutual Insurance com- As a result of this sensational Practical Ways to Reduce pany of Pittsburg, Kansas, of his loss-, confession, the police are convinced Thjem.

Thursday the president of the of the existence in Chicago of a company, R. M. Scott, came and ad- criminal organization which is des- justed the loss. On Sunday morning cribed as an "Arson Trust." Already No waste is so complete as fire- Mr. Longley received a draft for the 20 fires, entailing both, human and waste, and in this waste, as in most fUn amount carried all within six financial, loss are laid at the doors others, we lead the world.

Our fires iayS, Mr. Longley is agent for the of this atrocious combination. cost every year enough to fight a war, company in this- place, but says that Evidence is accumulating to show or buy a kingdom, fertilize a hundred this fact made no difference, as all that the "trust" was not confined to thousand farms now lying idle in losses are settled just as promptly Chicago wholly, but was composed of neglect, build a mighty railway, a by his company. Howard, Kansas, six or eight men, who, if the finan- greater university than the world has Exchange. cial inducement were sufficient, were fver known- The annual sacrifice of willing to touch a match to any- llfe as well as that of treasure is as Ammonia as an Extinguisher.

thing that would burn, in any city great as a great war's. Ordinary household ammonia is an where the insurance companies were In 1910 the total money loss was. excellent thing for putting out a gaso- doing business. roughly speaking, for the Nation 225 line flame. Dreyfuss was on the verge of mill.ion, dolla.r Therefore, keep a receptacle hold- bankruptcy when he entered into ne- A1?" ad Practice.

ing half a gallon or more of this gotiations with the "fire bug trust," telll tiie other niSht with fluid, in some sort of a fragile glass to burn-his store. Before. he decided Chlef Edwari Croker of the New that can be easily hurled from a safe to destroy his own store Dreyfuss To'f, Department about this. distance in case of fire. became involved with the trust, in a Croker ls a yerJ abe man.

He system of swindling the insurance 3 in command of a department Losses Paid, companies larger than the combined fire fight- Losses of 1910 paid in 52.02 After a store had been burned, it irf. forces pf he five next largest Losses of 1st quarter paid 2845,81 is said, Dreyfuss would send in a bill ltles; 8 nder Losses paid 2nd uarter for goods which he claimed he had 4' E. K. Longley, Howard, fire shipped to the firm which suffered In the cities of America tke great- April 22 1175.00 the loss. There was revealed also an est fire dangers lurk tenement Treasurer School Dist.

No. S2 ingenious system of swindling fire house cellars and stairways. No stairs Baker, wind, April 22 117.00 insurance companies by issuing false should lead from cellars to the in- Henry Hawk, Detroit, wind bills of sale on imaginary stock of SrJSiii g'i April 12 500 goods in the stores destroyed by the ft accuuflated rub-C. A. Hudson, Crestline, wind "Arson Trust." Dreyfuss confessed 'tT fS? lQ Apdl 13 "-1 that the fire in his store was the yn States.

In all john Hamlet, Crestline, wind work of this incendiary, combination nl LTJ ems-they are April 12 4.30 which attended to all the details of expensive-should be required by Deem Crestline, wind, an incendiary fire for a part of the xra -n- xm- tt April 12 5.00 insurance. Wi 6 Nets For Flre EscaPs. H. G. Leisure, Trustee Lodge He paid them $300, in advance and "AU fireproof office buildings and Hall, Crestline, April 12 2.80 promised to pay $1 700 more when buildings used for manufacturing pur- Robert Berner, Vining, wind.

he collected the insurance. This ring Pses should be equipped with fire es- April 12 3.00 have made" big profits out of their caPes inclosed in wire mesh to pre- Geo. Dresner, Chetopa, wind. operations. vent Panic-stricken people from fall- April 12 4.10 ing when they try to use them.

I Wm. E. Brooks, Melrose. know not of- a single city in the Un- wind, April 12 2.33 Report of Auditing Committee. ion, and I have traveled it from coast J.

W. Farrell, Eriewind 4.00 To the Officers and Directors of the to coast and am continually in cor- Lawler, Riverdale, light-National Mutual Insurance Associa- respondehce and in consultation with ning, April 30 287.50 tion, of Pittsburg, Kansas. fire chiefs from all parts of the Catherine Mussa, Weir City. We, your auditing committee, re- country, where the poor are as close- fire, April 11 4.8a port that we have checked up the ly guarded against fire danger while Mary Spies, Kingman, wind business of the Association foT the occupied at the necessary tasks by April 12 2.00 first half of the year, 1911, and found which they gain their livelihood as Peter Pierard, Curranville: -the books in balance and the ac- the prosperous are while seeking wind, April 30 3.00 counts correct. their amusement.

Jas. B. Braithwaite, Chicopee. W. M.

McDONALD, "I am a very strong believer in the fire, April 27 3.50 J. S. ROGERS, creation in such states as do not al- Henry Senachal, Chicopee. Committee. ready have such an office of a state fire, May 25th 2.0" Pittsburg, Kansas, July 14th 1911.

fire marshal, with at least a 10-year Florence E. Burns. Walnut, office tenure and a sufficiently high lightning, June 2 100.00 salary to make 'the office tempting Silas Wiley, Girard, fire Juno Fire Marshal Work. to an able man. 2 5.60 In North Carolina the Insurance Much Arson Goes Unpunished.

C. S. Colony, June 6, commissioner is ex-officio fire mar- "All fires should be investigated. tire 400. 28 ehal of the state, and as such must There is more Incendiarism than the Shumard Colony, fir look into fires, and where they are public dreams, and where there is not June 6 1 500.0! suspicious and the evidence justifies straight incendiarism there is often Ada A.

Baldwin, Baxter it, see that prosecutions are brought, negligence so gross that it almost Springs, fire, June 6th 3.00 Since the passage of the fire mar- equally merits punishment. The. pen- E. N. Yardley, Leavenworth, shal law.

these investigations alties for arson, as provided by the fire, June 20 5.00 have been pushed, but as the laws are generally great enough, but Fannie S. Wagoner, Neutral, result 122 persons have been con- evidence is hard to get, and under June 27 2" 15 victed and received sentence for in- the existing system is almost never cendiary burnings. gathered. State fire marshals should Total S63G2.76.