. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . of the road-bed isthoroughly plowed until nothing but fresh earth is exposed. But even then the rightof way is so narrow that the sparks are very liable to be blown into the woods. Forestfires along railroads have also started from heaps of worn-out railroad ties which werebeing burned in order to get rid of them. Fires have also been caused by dumpingthe ashpan of the locomotive while going through the woods—a careless act forwhich there is no excuse. If a railroad runs through a forest for a long d
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . of the road-bed isthoroughly plowed until nothing but fresh earth is exposed. But even then the rightof way is so narrow that the sparks are very liable to be blown into the woods. Forestfires along railroads have also started from heaps of worn-out railroad ties which werebeing burned in order to get rid of them. Fires have also been caused by dumpingthe ashpan of the locomotive while going through the woods—a careless act forwhich there is no excuse. If a railroad runs through a forest for a long distance,as in the Adirondacks, the ashpan should be dumped while going through acut, so that the loose coals will remain in the ditch next the rails. If dumpedwhile on an embankment, the live coals roll down its side into the bushes andbecome more dangerous. It is hoped in the interest of forest preservation, thatthe time is not far distant when the railroads in our forests will be equippedwith electric motive power, which will thus eliminate one of the sources of dangerto our FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 349 Fourth: Tobacco smokers. The fires that have been traced to this source aremore numerous and destructive than would appear at first thought. A pipe or cigarin the woods seems a simple, harmless thing; but they have caused the destruction oftimber worth many thousands of dollars, and devastated many thousands of hot ashes from a pipe falling among dry leaves, or a lighted cigar stub thrownfrom a wagon into the dry grasses by the side of a woodland road, have been knownrepeatedly to start destructive fires that sprang up after the careless smoker had goneon his way. Then, again, the man who smokes tobacco is frequently lighting matchesand throwing them away. Too often he neglects to extinguish the match, and, afterlighting his pipe or cigar, throws it aside while it is still burning, without taking anyheed whatever where it may fall. Many of our Adiro
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