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With the improvement which has been made in the laws and in their 
execution, regarding fires set by locomotives, providing a more ready 
method for the collection of damages, the use of spark arresters has 
been considerably extended, and the two papers on the subject of this 
means of preventing fires, prepared by well-known railroad engineers, 
and prefaced by Mr. N. H. Egleston, it is hoped, may weigh sufficiently 
with companies not yet provided-with those contrivances to induce 
their adoption in order to avoid one cause of useless forest devastation. 
B. E. F. 
