New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1917, Page 14

tion- of.:Grain Tncreases fow. people realize how directly the th discussed “High Cost of Living” uenced by America’s excessive ste. A recent natlon-wide anal- fires and fire causes has shown ious destruction of common Single fires in elevators and frequently' tonsume the equiva- “of a livng for & small army of iplc. For example, a recent .blaze an Illinois r. rendered 700,- also destroyed ‘of_oats. in. elevators, flour, cereal grist ‘feed mills present well . known nts of fire hazard in that.they ubject to explosions of the high- kplosive dust that results from 800,000 h short time ago the United States De- | partment of Agriculture made a study ! of the frequent ecxplosions in grain | separators ‘in the Rig Bend: country of the Northwest, and found that in the height of the scason these reached from six to ten a day, the flamem Tom 8ix to ten a d the flames her of cases spreading into the sur- rounding grain with dcstmcuve Te- sults, Individual barn fires add enormous- ly to this total. Throughout - most of the country the season of thunder storms follows closely upon that of est, and thousands of barns, stored with potential food, go up in flames each year because of lightning. These fires must be classed as large- ly preventable, since statistics com- piled by the Actuarial Bureau of the National Board of Fire Underwriters show that of the total fire loss from lightning, more than 93 per cent. is found where lightning rods are not used. A The spontaneous combustion of hay and grain in poorly ventilated barns is another big factor which might largely be prevented by proper pre- cautions. ‘When to such items are added the fires in grain flelds from locomotive sparks, and from the matches of careless smokers, it may be realized that a vast amount of foodstuff is turned into ciouds of smoke, instead of human bone' and muscle. 'l'hluf NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY, MARfiH 23,1917, inevitakty ha: its ¢®ect upon the price of the remainder. Most peopic depend upon groceries j for their food, and the average groc- cry, containing,.as it ‘does, stocks of kerosene and other inflammable mer- chandise, is a special instance of fire hazard. This is shown by the great number .that are consumed during each year and each grocery fire sub- tracts a' definite quantity of staples from the national supply. Meat supplies are directly affected by the large number af live - stock burned in fires in barns and stables, and also by the many fires im pack- ing houses, slaughter houses, etc. ‘The same condition holds true with other staples-than those of food. In two years there were reported 822 fires in wool and cotton mills. Cotton is a commodity which is particularly subject to disastrous'fires. This also applies in & merked degree to the refining, storing and handling of oil— one of ‘our commonest daily require- ‘ments. “The mppl* of wood enters into many phases ‘of our living necessities. In New York State alone 200,000 people are employed in turning out an annual product of nearly $400,000,000 in wood manufactures. . Striking at ‘the basis of- this great industr,y, hun- dreds of human lives, and millions of dollars’ worth of property are de- stroyed each year by . forest fires, which might be prevented with prop- er care. - The Natlonal Forest Service, s in one year, ‘discovered 1,126 forest fires to have been caused by campers; 1,110 by locomotive sparks, and 470 by incendiaries. The burning of saw mills, lumber yards, furniture and wooden ware factories and stores is too frequent to call for special com- ment. Similar surveys might be made in other fields of staples in- cluded in the cost of living. Back of all of this loom the larger aspects of the situation. With an average of more than one reported fire for every minute of the year, and a daily .destruction approximating $600,000, the United States is subject- ed to an economic drain that affects every social life, and 1is a large, though unrecognized factor in the cost of all commodities. Furthermore, it cannot be overlooked that a vast number of people are interrup%d iIn employment, and hence in earning power, from the same cause. It is at least an interesting coincl- dence that the historic panic of 1873 followed the Chicago conflagration of 1871, and that of Boston. in 1872; while the more recent panic of 1907 occurred in the year succeeding San Francisco’s great fire. If America were to reduce her fire losses to the 'fractional figures of most other countries it can hardly be doubted that the cost of living would te materially lowered. It must never be forgotten that 21.4 per cent. of this annual bonfire is due to strictly preventable causes, 37.9 per cent. to adlqnlhble Suit or Overcoat, but those men have mever taken the time to examine into MONROE CLOTHES and our' method of mer- l "I'.. ‘. We know how MONROE CLOTHES at $15 compare with other high grlde clothes shown at higher prices—now we want you to com- . pare them and we know your own good judgement will cause you to join the thousands of men who now regularly buyy “MONROE CLOTHES” at $I5. MONROE CLOTHES go to you direct from our own workrooms via \\u\ Mnmmdmmethodofretulmg—and in. addition to the great economies effected by doing away with the middlemen’s pro- fits and excessive ground floor rents, we have also done away with charge accounts (with their accompanying losses.) We never have “sales” which necessitate high first prices to even up later “reductions.” : As a result of these drastic differences in ourway of dolng busn- ness from other retailing methods we save in seling MONROE CLOTHES and you save in buying them, and our economy in no ‘way affects the quality. Come Up and Se¢e MONROE (uality America’s Largest Upstairs Clothiers MONROE CLOTHES SHOP 25 Asylum St. UPSTAIRS - HARTFORD Open Saturday Until 10 o’Clock T those. which are partly preventable ' and that the remaining 40.7 per cent. from “unknown” causes is probably largely preventable. GLYCERINE FROM WASTE. French Using Screps From Their Army Kitchens, London, March 23.—~Waste from the army camp kitchens is now sup- 1lying enough glycerine \yearly to produce the cordite necessary for ten million eighteen pound shells. More- over the glycerine is being supplied to the army at the pre-war price of 60 pounds a ton, whereas the present market price is 240 pounds. A portion of the profits made on the process £oes to the messing departments of the armies. which are now receiving about 30,000 poundp monthly from this source. The proposal to turn the camp ! waste into glycerine Wwas made by ‘e | committee of soap manufacturers. They convinced the army authorities after some effort that their scheme | was possible, and they immediately organized the collection of the waste, especially fats and bones. The col- lections go immediately to the nearest soapmaker for the production of tal- low and glycerine. The fat contains sbout ten per cent. glycerine. The system h since been extended to the base camps in France, where the fat is rendered down and sent home | in barrels,-and also the navy, which | used to throw all this waste over- ' board. ATLAST, A GHANGE | FOR A POOR ARTIST |Democmic Exhibition Plauned ‘and Public Will Be dury’ —_— New York 1s to have what will be the largest and most radical art ex- hibition ever held in America. Ar- rangements have been made by the Soctety of lx‘aopendnt Artists - to stage the collossal exposition which will be held in the Grand Central Palace, April 9 to May 6. Under the slogan, “No jury—no prizes,” artists famed the world over, artists noted in America, and artists yet to strug- gle fo fame, will exhibit paintings or sculpture, or both, with only the pub- lic to judge their merits from the public appreciation which is largely a matter of association rather . than knowledge. 'As &ich member hegithe privilege of exhibiting: two plctiires, or two pleces of statuary, or plc-, ture and one plece of statuary, and as there are already more than one thousand members, in the society, it i_l calculated there will be at least 2,000 exhibits, or twice as ‘many as exhibited in the Armory S8how of 1913. Every school of art from the most |- radical to the most conservative will be represented. Cubists, futurists, post-impressioners, etc., will be there in force. Pictures will be hung on a plan never before devised, not even Paris. betical order without regard to clasa or artist’s reputation. So it is quite ; likely as not that a Glackens, a Haw- thorne, a Bellows or any one of the famous paintings may be found hang- ing side by side with the most imag- inative lines of the unknown who has never seen the Latin Quarter of Gay Paree, or beside an extreme artist portrait. Duchamp Has New Among the extremists who will ex- | | hibit at’ the art exposition is Marcel | Dychamp, the famous cubist painter noted chiefly for his “Nude Descend- ing Staircase” and one of his exhibits will be a new cubist painting to be Ienutled “Tulip Hysteria Co-ordinat- ing.” Mr. Duchamp received his in- spiration from a yellow tulip bed he saw at the present flower show ln the Grand Central Palace. At the forthcoming art the public is to be the qn!:m?; the)pictures. If the, pi likes a p-aqqn; it 48 art, andl public it'may still be'ast. it art a bit teo c perhaps to n favor Just now. Many of the pictures will be for sale and the members have been i recommended to place as low a price as possible upon their ‘exhibits, in or- | Ider to make the exhibitions of the soclety known to the buying public las the most advantageous market in America. for contemporary art. Among the patrons are Mrs. Harry ‘Payne Whitney, Mrs. William K. Van- derbilt, Sr., Miss Katherine Dreier, C. . Rumsey and Archer M. Hunting- ton. The officers and directors of the society are: Willilam J. Glackens, A. L., president, Charles E. Prendergast, vice president, Walter Pach, treas- urer, John R. Covert, secretai George W. Bellows, Homer Boss, Ka | therine S. Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, Regina A. Farrelly, Arnold Friod- man, Ray Greenl , Charles W. Haw- thorne, Rockwell Kent, John Marin, Maurice B. Prendergast, Man Ray, Mary C. Rogers, Morton L. Scham- berg, Joseph Stolla, Maurice Sterno. R. G. Farrelly and Walter C. Arens- berg. 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