New Fire Prevention Organization* 



Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Fire Prevention Association formed. 



On Nov. 29 Mr. Franklin H. Wentworth 

 of Boston, spoke before the Ottawa Can- 

 adian Club on fire prevention and immedi- 

 ately at the close of his address a further 

 meeting was held at which an Ottawa 

 branch of the Ontario Fire Prevention As- 

 sociation was formed. The Canadian For- 

 estry Association has always been strongly 

 in favor of this work and the list of of- 

 ficers of the newly formed association re- 

 sembles a partial list of the Ottawa mem- 

 bers of the Canadian Forestry Association. 

 Last year just after the Ontario Fire Pre- 

 vention Association was formed with head- 

 quarters in Toronto the Secretary of the 

 Canadian Forestry Association was asked 

 to act with the Grass and Timber Commit- 

 tee of the Fire Prevention Association in 

 securing the insertion of warnings against 

 careless handling of fire, in railway time 

 tables, etc. The Secretary found the rail- 

 ways very favorably inclined. In fact the 

 Canadian Pacific Eailway had for the past 

 ten or twelve years been inserting a warning 

 to tourists and campers in all its folders 

 dealing with this traffic. This was due to 

 forethought of Mr. C. E. E. Ussher, Pass- 

 enger Traffic Manager of the C. P. R. and 

 one of the charter members and now a 

 director of the Canadian Forestry Asso- 

 ciation. This it is believed made the Can- 

 adian Pacific the first railway in America 

 to issue these warnings in its tourist and 



settler literature. The Grand Trunk Rail- 

 way System, it was found had also for 

 some years under the care of Mr. H. R. 

 Charlton, General Advertising Agent, in- 

 cluded such warnings in its campers' and 

 tourists' literature. The General Manager 

 of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, 

 Mr. C. F. Sise, Jr., also gladly consented 

 to place a warning about forest fires, and 

 the name of the person who should be noti- 

 fied by telephone of the breaking out of 

 fires, in all telephone directories covering 

 forest territory, Mr. Percy Robertson of 

 Toronto, secretary of the above committee, 

 of which Dr. Fernow is a member, com- 

 municated direct with the head office of 

 the Canadian Northern Railway at Toronto 

 and found the officers of that company 

 ready to assist in the work. 



Fire loss is dead loss whether it be in 

 the forests or in the cities and the aroused 

 public opinion that lessens this criminal 

 waste in the one will lessen it in the other. 

 The Canadian Forestry Association there- 

 fore urges on the efforts of the Ontario 

 Fire Prevention Association. 



The officers of the Ottawa Branch are 

 as follows: — 



President, Hon. W. C. Edwards; 1st vice- 

 president, C. Jackson Booth; 2nd vice- 

 president, H. K. Egan; secretary, E. D. 

 Hardy; treasurer, T. E. Clendinnen. 

 (Continued on page 183.) 



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