New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1925, Page 11

TYPES,OF FIRES FOR EACH SEASON Underwiters’ Barometer Shows Kind fo Expect - New York, Oct. 23 (# — What type of fires to expect in selected months can be foretold with rea- sonable certainty by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, The Board has found that the arson curve reflects not only the ebb and flow of prosperity, but also, with unvarying regularity, the closing of the special seasons in certain commodities, A precise re- lation between incendiary fires and industrial seasons is known to ex- Ist. With the approach of the Christ- mas season, the fur manufacturing trade concludes its brief ‘“year,” and as the cutting and sewlng ma- chines slow down, the number of conflagrations in these shops in- crease Inordinately with other months, . Some important sections of the garment trades geason ends in April, and from the middle of | that month, underwriters assert they may expect a sudden increase in calls for, fire settlements. Sigmi- larly with the sporting manufacturing, and other indus- trics whose perlod of output occu- py only a portfon of the calendar year, A trade map of the country warns the insurance man where to oxpect sectlonal conflagrations of unusual frequency. This year they are sald to center in New Ingland where the textile indusiry is below goods | par, but the wave also has touched upstate New ¥ork and in the last two years the finger polnted to Texas, then Georgla and to south- ern lllinols. HBome estimates lay as' high as 40 per cent of the $500,000,000 an« nual fire loss to the gruesome hand of the “fire bug' His work is marked by death as well as by de. struction, for of the 15,000 people who perished in flames In the United States last year, many died in conflagrations of dellberate ori- gin. In Willlam street, which is to in- wurance what Wall strect is to finance and Malden lane to gems, there is {ssucd a monthly chart for the information of underwriters. It shows {n parallel columns, the fires which have occurred in varl- ous trades and the “business em- barragsments” noted in the same industires, industries. 1s a common inquiry of an insur- ance agent returning from a short vacation. “Clothing,” or “leather goods,” or “trimmings" may be the reply. Adjusters and Investigators have been warned to scrutinize careful- ly reports in the trade which, for the time being:at least, is known to be undergoing an extra hazard. Even the weather has a not in. considerable influence on com- merclal fires. If summer lingers, throwing the fall trade sales be- hind, the fact is noted by the un- derwriters' loss committee; if the winter is unusually severe, a closer waich {8 kept on the spring trades for straw lhats and flimsy dress koods will be retarded on their way 10 market and the weaker ele- ments of those tradgs may be pinched, Unassimilated allens often are the blazers of the arson trall. Un- derwriters hold this type responsi- ble for many devastating confla- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, grations, Although declared to be widespread, arson is a difficult crime to prove and many claims are settled that just failed to bring & oriminal indictment, Those who fight {ncendiaristn have little sentiment about fires In Willlam street they glve cred- ence to the story that Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over a lan- tern and so burned Chicago halt a4 century ago, and that a lope Penpsylvania crow short-circuited two high tension wires last June and caused a dozen or more blazes, These were fires of fate, accepted as such, Japanese Girl’s Tongue Attacked by Microbes Tokyo, Oct, 28 (® — Strange things in medfcine and surgery are often reported from Japan, but one of the strangest is the recent case of a girl whose three-inch tongue Wwas eaten up o one inch by mi- crobes. By cauterization, the surg. eons report, they were able to re- store one inch of the organ so that | the girl now has a tongue two| fnches in length, The patient, Miss Sonoko Torii, A8 years old, found while she was attending’ school that her tongue apparently was getting shorter, Within a few months the tongue had decreased to such an extent that the girl had difficulty in talk- ing. She consulted a number of doctors who ald they could do Lnothmg for her. IMnally one of the most prominent Japanese surgeons decided the tongue was “colonized” by unknown microbes. He tried cauterization,and a, “cure' . appar- ently was effected, Japanese sci- entists say there is no record of a similar case, The largest American educational insfitution in the near east fis at Belrut, Syrla. BEGINING TOMORROW MORNING AT 9 SHARP— RECORD COATS THAT PORTRAY FEATURES FOUND ONLY IN HIGHER PRICED MOPELS L0G CABIN HOME T0 BE RESTORE) Birthplace of James Buchanan I at Chambersburg, Pa. Chambersburg, Pa, Oct. 23 (A~ The weather worn old log cabin in which James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the United States, was born on April 23, 1701, {s to be re- stored and preserved as a memorial to Penneylvania's only president. Bullt originally by the presi. dent's father in the mountains of southern Pennsylvania, the cabin was moved nearly a century ago to Mercersburg, where it has since stood, used much of the time as a tenant houge, Now it {s being torn | down and moved again; this time to Chambersburg, where it will be rebullt on a lot near the center of the town. The clder Buchanan was an Trishman who came to Amerlea soon after the Revolution, and sct out to make a llving as a trader | among the Indlans and frontiers- men, Choosing a lomely spot in the hills north of the Maryland border be bullt two log cabins, onc for a home and the other a store. 1In time his place became known to the traders and trappers as “Stony Batter.” Here the son “Jamie” was born, His trading operations proved so profitable that Buchanan finally moved to Mercersburg and there he sent his son to school and later to college. The young man be- came a leader in local affairs and represented his dletrict in the state leglslature and in congress trom | "RIDAY, To 1836 [ a president, Ho died In lan rin 1566 apa Wwa# buried (here. ) In later years the president's sise ters crocted a stone pyramid at lhn} site of his birthplace, ['his stands today, hidden in a grove of pine| trees. The oak logs of the old t'.«lrln; are well preserved. BLACK 0PAUE GLASS INVENTED Japanese Expert Claims fo Have Made Discovery Tokyo, Oct. 23 (®) — After sev- | eral years' investigation, Jusel Sugiye, a gclentist of the Indus- trlal Experimental station of Osa- Kka, is reported to have invented a black glasy of a special kind which 1y expocted to prove of great mili- tory value. It Is said the black | glass 1s opaque to all but ultra- | violet rays and, by its use, battle formations or the movements of an enemy -can be easily photographed in darkness without detection | Moving plctures, it s clalmed can also he taken in the dark by the use of the black glass. Experiments with the new glass made recently In the presence of Rear Admiral Muto are said to have proved a complete succeas. The in- ventor declares the black glass will ‘not only be important for military purposes, but that it will be found | valuable in medical treatment. There {s an obelisk in Egypt that ‘has never boon raised. It welghs 11,163 tons. 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