As Read of tke State 

 Charities Board, Mrs. 

 Livingston brought 

 about reforms that every- 

 one declared, before ske 

 was appointed . were 

 visionary. 



THE STATE ARCHITECT COL. WARING DR. ELTING, PH. D. 



MRS. LIVINGSTON 



CHAIRMAN 



Weve got to face conditions 



"I wont have girls locked up in that old fire 

 trap at Harrisonville f she stormed. 



"Why, it isn't a fire trap. It's a modern brick 

 building with iron stairways inside," was the 

 all'sufficient answer. "We are rather proud of 

 our state reformatory for girls." 



But that didnt fool Mrs. Livingston. She 

 knew that the building in one short hour could 

 be a heap of brick and smoldering timbers, and 

 that only automatic sprinklers could safeguard 

 girls behind its barred windows and locked doors. 



Today that reformatory has a sprinkler system 

 that is on watch day and night, ready to start 

 working as soon as a fire starts. The fire danger 

 is gone and the girls are safe just because one 

 woman knew the facts and had the humanity to 

 insist on their adoption. 



How many officials are fooled by fire protection 

 methods that look all right but are not really safe. 

 The reformatory or the hospital or the school' 

 house may be made of stone, it may have doors 

 opening outward and iron stairways, but the 



GRINNELL 



AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER SYSTEM 



When the fire starts the water starts 



contents will burn up like fuel in a furnace and 

 some inmates perish before help can reach them. 



If you are the Mayor of your town you owe 

 it to your fellow citizens to see that such build' 

 ings have automatic sprinklers. 



If you are the chief of the fire department 

 come out flatfootedly and demand sprinklers, 

 since you know they are the most adequate 

 thing. 



If you are merely a father or mother see to it that your 

 child and your neighbor's child are safe from harm during 

 the six hours daily they spend away from you, by demand- 

 ing automatic sprinklers in your schools. 



Some five billion dollars of business property has been 

 protected from fire by automatic sprinklers. 



Meanwhile our wonderful humanitarian institutions and 

 our fine schools continue to burn and the toll of victims 

 grows larger each month. 



With a one cent post 

 card you might save 

 lives. Who knows? 

 Should you hesitate to 

 send for a free booklet 

 that tells what to do? 



Read — "Fire Tragedies 

 and Their Remedy" 



If you feel too indifferent to 

 send for a free booklet telling 

 what to do, what right have you 

 to blame others when a horrible 

 calamity occurs in your town ? 

 Think of your schools, hospitals 

 and asylums and write today, 

 now, for this intensely interesting 

 booklet. Address General Fire 

 Extinguisher Company, 293 West 

 Exchange St., Providence, R. I. 



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