They couldn't believe it 

 •would happen — but it did. 

 And that hospital fire cost 

 the lives of ten bed-ridden 

 patients and three nurses. 



Some five billion dollars of 

 business property has been pro- 

 tected from fire by automatic 

 sprinklers. 



State Industrial Commissions 

 are guarding the lives of factory 

 employees by requiring this same 

 unfailing protection in business 

 property. 



The United States Govern- 

 ment insisted on war industries 

 being so protected. 



Are you one of the dull public ( 



THERE is not much chance of a fire in a 

 hospital," said the doctor. 

 " Unless somebody overturns an alec 

 hoi stove or unless there is defective wiring — 

 or something happens in the heating plant — 

 or unless — well, I guess Fm getting myself in 

 trouble here," he ended ruefully. 



Many other good and useful citizens would say just what 

 this doctor said. You never can know and appreciate fire 

 dangers till you stop and think how many, many causes 

 there are, and how worthless ordinary methods of preven- 

 tion have proved themselves. 



Hospitals for the insane with splendid equipment for 

 helping or curing the mentally unfit ; hospitals where little 

 crippled children grow strong and learn once more to play ; 

 hospitals where the blind are taught trades so they can 

 go back to a happy and natural life; hospitals where 



wounded heroes are made whole again ; all with the finest 

 of modern appliances, light, air, sunshine, heroic doctors and 

 nurses— but no fire-fighting apparatus worth mentioning. 



Constant exposure to the worst kind of death in insti- 

 tutions dedicated to humanity, the world over ! 



Investigate your own Hospital. Find out for yourself 

 what will mean safety for the patients. 



Don't put on your nurses, those fine women already 

 giving their lives to the services of others, the cruel burden 

 of responsibility in case of fire. 



See that your hospital is equipped with the Grinnell Auto- 

 matic Sprinkler Sys- 



Read — "Fire Tragedies and 

 Their Remedy"' 



Parents, trustees or officials will 

 find in "Fire Tragedies and Their 

 Remedy " the unvarnished truth 

 and a path of imperative social ser- 

 vice. Write for it today. Address 

 General Fire Extinguisher Com- 

 pany, 293 West Exchange St., 

 Providence, R. I. 



tern. Like a hundred 

 firemen scattered 

 throughout the build- 

 ing, always on the job! 

 When the fire starts, 

 the water starts — no 

 chance for the fire to 

 spread. 



GRINNELL 



AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER SYSTEM 



V/hen the fire starts the water starts 



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