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condition, or by failing to promptly report and extinguish 

 fires. 



Cooperation of Railroad With State and Individual , 



The railroad should cooperate with the state ani 

 individual in trying to prevent and control railroad forest 

 fires. The fire protection work of the Boston and Maine 

 Railroad has been put under one office knows as the Fire 

 Claims Department. This centralizing of responsibility 

 for all fire work has proved a most effective means of re- 

 ducing damage. The success of the railroad depends upon 

 the wealth of the country through ?;hich it passes. Forest 

 fires make for a poor country. 



