. Electric railway journal . is in-spected once a month by a general inspector. The inspector isemployed constantly and by means of a continuous system ofreports sent by him to the general offices the fire risks arekept up to the standard requirements of the insurance com-panies. Two forms of report are made by the inspector. Onereport shows the risks that he has inspected each day, arrangedaccording to the item number shown on the schedule form usedin connection with the policies. A second report is an itemizedstatement of the actual conditions of each risk as found by theinspector. Both good
. Electric railway journal . is in-spected once a month by a general inspector. The inspector isemployed constantly and by means of a continuous system ofreports sent by him to the general offices the fire risks arekept up to the standard requirements of the insurance com-panies. Two forms of report are made by the inspector. Onereport shows the risks that he has inspected each day, arrangedaccording to the item number shown on the schedule form usedin connection with the policies. A second report is an itemizedstatement of the actual conditions of each risk as found by theinspector. Both good and bad features are included in thisreport. Those reports from the inspector which require attention aretaken in hand by the executive in charge of insurance mattersand letters are written to the different operating officials, callingtheir attention to the irregularities found by the inspector. Insome instances it is necessary for the division officials to in-struct their subordinates to make slight changes in the arrange-. Ohio Fire Insurance—Hydrant, Hose Stand and Fire Rulesin Vine Street Car House ment of the building fixtures, and in .others it is necessary forthem to see that certain practices of the men, such as the care-less handling of waste or other inflammable materials, are dis-continued. A frequent irregularity found by the inspector isthe blockading of doors with materials or supplies in course ofuse. One of the duties of the general insurance inspector of thecompany is to instruct foremen in fire drills and insist on thor-ough training in this part of the work. Periodical test drillsare called for from both night and day squads and the resultsfrom the fire department of the railway company have been ex-cellent. At one time a dwelling house near a car house caughtfire and the railway shop squad reached the house and put outthe fire before the city fire department, located on the next lot,got under way. The rules posted in each building follow: GENERAL FIRE RUL
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