298 Forestry Quarterly. 



E- H. Finlayson, Fire Inspector, care Forestry Branch Customs 

 Building, Winnipeg, Man. 



P. C. Barnard-Hervey, Fire Inspector for Dominion Parks, 

 care Parks Branch, Edmonton, Alberta. 



W. N. Alillar, Fire Inspector for Dominion Forest Reserves in 

 Alberta, care Dominion Forestry Branch, Calgary, Alberta. 



D. Roy Cameron, Fire Inspector for the Railway Belt, care 

 Forestry Branch, Kamloops, B. C. 



H. R. AlacAIillan, Provincial Fire Inspector, care Forest 

 Branch, Lands Department, Victoria, B. C. 



A number of other officials of the Dominion and Provincial 

 Government have been or will be appointed officers of the Board, 

 and will assist the above-named superior field officers in carrying 

 on this work. 



General Provisiotts. So far as practicable, the work of patrol 

 has been combined with the other regular duties of your em- 

 ployees, but where this action has not been specifically indicated 

 the patrol force is to be a specially organized and a specially 

 supervised body of men, who shall perform, to the exclusion of 

 other duties, the patrol and other fire-protective work indicated in 

 the Regulations of the Board and specified herein. 



In every case where special or section patrols are required 

 special instructions must be issued and special supervision must 

 be provided by the Company. 



As a matter of record velocipedes patrolmen passing telegraph 

 stations shall be reported the same as passing trains and such 

 records shall be freely open to the inspection of any authorized 

 officer of the Board. 



Each foot patrolman shall be equipped with one shovel and one 

 canvas bucket- Each velocipede patrolman shall be equipped 

 with two shovels, two canvas buckets and one axe. In addition 

 to the above, and to the regular section equipment, there shall be 

 stored at the tool house for each section in each patrol district the 

 following emergency fire fighting equipment ; one axe, three mat- 

 tocks and four buckets of not less than twelve quarts capacity 

 each. Equipment for the transportation of patrolmen will also 

 be furnished by the Company as indicated. 



The object sought to be obtained by the regulations of the 

 Board and by the instructions issued under them, is the prevention 

 of railway fires. It is desired to avoid as far as possible the im- 

 position of unnecessary expense upon the railway companies, and 

 it is fully realized that the danger of fire will necessarily vary 

 between wide limits during the long season prescribed by the 

 regulations. There is no doubt that a very efficient system of fire 

 patrol can be established at a minimum of expense if proper pro- 

 vision is made for increasing or decreasing the force as con- 

 ditions may require or permit. To this end, an average patrol 

 force has been prescribed, with which to begin work, and the 



