Excerpt from Official Record of the First American National Fire Prevention Convention, Held at Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A., October 13-18 (Inclusive), 1913: Including All Papers and Discussions; Also 1913 Report of Fire Marshal, City of Philadelphia, With 1912 and 1913 Reports of Philadelphia Fire Prevention Commission Attached; Also 1914 Report of Fire Waste Committee, Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. Of A The program completely covered the subject, and the conferees (listed on pages 527-35) represented the best thought and experience of the country in interest and geographically. The papers and discussions, while expert and technical in the main, are readily understandable by all men. Any intelligent layman may by patiently and carefully reviewing this Record reach the heart of the problem, set forth in plain and simple language. The views presented are the best we have in the nation in char acter, training and experience. They were freely and frankly voiced without restraint of any sort, and with more or less repetition to permit all shades of experience and resultant opinion. Suggestions have been made to the Editor that much condensation be employed; but upon careful consideration this course has not been followed, and the papers and discussions have been reported almost verbatim, with a complete index to facilitate reference. Opportunity is taken here to heartily thank the busy and able men who at their own expense attended this Convention and applied themselves steadily for an entire week to its deliberations - and especially to those who prepared the able papers presented. These individuals were without exception authorities on their respective subjects of proven merit in this field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.