The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938, October 09, 1916, Image 1
HUXTRY! (Issued by the Department of Architecture.) “THE DAILY BULLETIN | Published daily (except Mondays) by the A. and M. Print Shop for circulation among students, gi faculty, and campus residents. Vol. 11. College Station, Texas, Monday, October 9, 1916. No. 15. GOOD MORNING! This is FIRE PREVENTION DAY! THE CITY OF CHICAGO burned down forty-five years ago today. Mrs, O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lamp; a high wind was blowing—the fire leaped from house to house; the fire department could not stop it; it burned for a week— and a metropolis was in ruins. There have been other great fires: Boston, San Francisco, Baltimore, Jacksonville, Chelsea, Salem, Nashville. Less than a year ago a Texas city PARIS was laid in ruins. Our annual fire loss is stupendous. The average is around $260,000, 000—enough to duplicate A. and M. in every state and country in the world. The indirect loss—the difference between the cost of insurance and what is paid back, the up-keep of fire departments, the crippling of industry, and the stoppage of employment, etc., is enough more to main- tain every one of these colleges. All of this is lost EVERY YEAR. It is time for all Americans to realize that this enormous annual wastage is an irreparable loss; a house burns down; it is rebuilt but not replaced, because to rebuild it, trees are cut down and made into boards; each year they yet scarcer and scarcer, and the boards cost more. MOST fires are PREVENTABLE in their origin. Matches + children. Cigarettes—the kind that burn after being thrown away. Gasoline and kerosine. Candles. Hot ashes. Waste paper. MOST fires that SPREAD are preventable. Fire-proof buildings, automatic sprinklers, fire extinguishers. Has each one a duty to be careful about fire? Clearly so: The Department of Architecture publishes this extra issue of the “Daily Bulletin’ just to ask YOU if you are as careful as you ought to be. Three or four students offer a word, serious and otherwise. The President of the College contributes an article on the next page.——Make way for the President: