"There's a fire at 

 Mary's School!" 



No use to 'phone ! 

 Try to keep calm 

 until we can find out 

 whether Mary has 



This is happening 

 in some city, on an 

 average, each day or 

 two during the 

 school year. Read 

 about the cause and 

 the remedy below. 



Suppose it was your girl? 



"^TOT long ago there was a fire in a business 

 •*- ^ college in the heart of the business district 

 of a Pennsylvania city. Five hundred girls 

 escaped ; but — 



Three were injured — 



Seven were overcome by smoke — 



Five hundred mothers are now afraid to trust 

 their daughters in such a building. 



Are you allowing that sweet young daughter 

 of yours, or the son who will soon be able to 

 help Dad in his business, to spend their long 

 school hours in a building that looks all right, 

 but is no more than a deadly fire trap? 



All over the country, in large cities and little 

 villages, thousands upon thousands of boys and 

 girls go to school in just such dangerous buildings. 



Now, since children are compelled by law to 

 go to school, common humanity demands that 

 their lives be safeguarded against fire. 



Fire drills? — Yes. Fire escapes? Of course! 

 But if the flames spread so quickly as to cut off 



windows and stairways, all the fire drills and fire 

 escapes in the world will not bring back one of 

 the pitiful little victims of official negligence. 

 Fire never does the expected thing. The only 

 thing to do is to stop the first tiny flicker of flame. 



With Grinnell Automatic Sprinklers if a fire 

 starts in a basement, or anywhere else, it will 

 be kept right where it starts and be extinguished 

 quickly. When the fire starts the water starts. 



Men have protected some five billion dollars 

 of their business property from fire by the use 

 of automatic sprinklers. 



Meanwhile our wonderful humanitarian in' 

 stitutions and our fine schools continue to burn, 

 criminally jeopardizing thousands of lives. 



With a one cent post card you might save 

 lives. Who knows? D , ffr . _ ,. , 



Read tire 1 ragedies and 

 Their Remedy" 



If you feel too indifferent to 

 send for a free booklet telling 



Should you hesitate 

 to send for a free 

 booklet that tells 

 just what to do? 



GRINNELL 



AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER SYSTEM 



When the fire starts the water starts 



what to do, what right have you 

 to blame others when a horrible 

 calamity occurs in your town ? 

 Think of your schools and write 

 today, now, for this intensely 

 i nteresting booklet. Address 

 General Fire Extinguisher Com- 

 pany, 293 West Exchange Street, 

 Providence, R. I. 



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