. The Street railway journal . urance men and representatives of the fire experiment was of a hazardous character, but it was en-tirely successful, and the results seemed to indicate that theadoption of the system by street railway companies will un-doubtedly result in the practical elimination of the great num-ber of disastrous car house fires which have embarrassed streetrailway companies in the past. As is well known, the car house is considered by insurancecompanies as one of the most hazardous risks known, and thenumerous fires of this character have had the result of incre
. The Street railway journal . urance men and representatives of the fire experiment was of a hazardous character, but it was en-tirely successful, and the results seemed to indicate that theadoption of the system by street railway companies will un-doubtedly result in the practical elimination of the great num-ber of disastrous car house fires which have embarrassed streetrailway companies in the past. As is well known, the car house is considered by insurancecompanies as one of the most hazardous risks known, and thenumerous fires of this character have had the result of increas-ing the premiums until car house insurance has grown to be avery expensive item with big companies. A car house fire isdisastrous to a street railway company not only through theactual value of the property destroyed, but the absence of roll-ing stock involves a loss of business until new cars can besecured to handle the traffic. The scheme of installing auto-matic sprinkler systems has operated satisfactorily in stores and. INTERIOR CAR HOUSE SHOWING SPRINKLERS—REAR END OFBUILDING KNOCKED OUT FOR BETTER DRAFT factories, and it has been tried in car houses, but it has notbeen altogether successful, due to the fact that the sprinklershave been suspended from the roof, and the water falling onthe roofs of the car is prevented from reaching the fire until itis beyond control, owing to the fact that the fire usually origi-nates inside the car. Recently, Henry N. Staats, of Cleveland, manager of theTraction Mutual Fire Insurance Association, which, as is out-lined in another column of this issue, has been formed for thepurpose of insuring traction properties, conceived the idea ofplacing automatic sprinklers between the rows of cars in abarn. He presented the plan to the Cleveland manager of theGeneral Automatic Fire Extinguisher Company, who at oncesaw the advantages of the scheme. With a view to giving theplan a practical test, it was presented to Horace E. Andrews,president
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