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Author : Harry Chase Brearley
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Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Fifty Years of a Civilizing Force written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Chase Brearley
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Download or read book Fifty Years of a Civilizing Force written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Chase Brearley
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019911334
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Download or read book Fifty Years of a Civilizing Force; an Historical and a Critical Study of the Work of the National Board of Fire Underwriters written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive history and analysis of the National Board of Fire Underwriters. The authors examine the Board's role in promoting fire safety, improving building codes, and establishing modern fire departments. The book also considers criticisms of the Board, including accusations of cronyism and inefficiency. This book is a fascinating look at the history of fire safety in the United States and the development of modern fire prevention practices. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Harry Chase Brearley
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Total Pages : 374 pages
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Download or read book The History of the National Board of Fire Underwriters written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Hempstead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019009415X
Total Pages : 393 pages
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Download or read book Uncovered written by Katherine Hempstead and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lieutenant Frederick Henry Beecher was planning to make a visit home to see his family that Spring in 1868, when he received an order to embark on a new mission. Civil War General Phil Sheridan asked him to assist Major George "Sandy" Forsyth in recruiting and leading a unit of fifty elite civilian scouts, to search for Cheyenne and Sioux warriors and engage them in combat. Beecher was stationed at Fort Wallace in Kansas and had previously engaged with the Cheyenne during an attack on the Fort in the summer of 1867. He was known to be a good shot, and Major Forsyth thought highly of his skills, describing him as "...brave and modest, with a love of hunting and a natural taste for plainscraft; he was a splendid specimen of a thoroughbred American, and a most valuable man in any position requiring coolness, courage and tact." Ongoing conflict between nomadic Native peoples and civilians placed pressure on the under-resourced U.S. Army, leading to the use of civilian scouts. Beecher helped assemble a group known for their tracking skills, and they set off from Fort Hayes, Kansas, heading west for Fort Wallace. They arrived in September and soon learned of an attack on a freight train about thirteen miles east. The next morning, under Forsyth's command, they set out in pursuit of the raiders, following their trail into Yuma County Colorado. The scouts soon lost the trail, yet their travels did not go unnoticed. As they made camp on the south bank of the Arikakee River, a large party of Cheyenne and Sioux gathered nearby for a massive surprise attack"--
Author : Brooklyn Public Library
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Brooklyn Public Library written by Brooklyn Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Goetz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317299620
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book On the Frontlines of the Welfare State written by Barry Goetz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although public safety agencies protect our well-being, they also shape social problems and community inequities. Public safety protections promote what T.H. Marshall called "social rights" of equitable citizenship. Frontlines of Welfare State shows how public safety agencies function as welfare state agencies, responsible for a range of essential public functions including emergency service, criminal investigation, regulatory oversight and social service outreach. Furthermore, this volume shows how public safety agencies are being asked to absorb more social welfare functions amidst cut-backs in other areas of the welfare state. Two areas of public safety are examined: arson control and fire prevention, especially within the contexts of urban change and gentrification, and community policing, especially as a mechanism of expanding drug treatment service and prevention programs. Facilitating a greater understanding of institutional biases within the state built around organizational structures, procedures and cultures and their impact on social outcomes, this original and exciting book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of Policing and Fire Control, Public Policy and Administration, Drugs and Substance Abuse and White Collar Crime.
Author : Harry Chase Brearley
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ISBN 13 : 9781332127672
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book Fifty Years of a Civilizing Force written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifty Years of a Civilizing Force: An Historical and a Critical Study of the Work of the National Board of Fire Underwriters The United States might well have been named Terra del Fuego - "Land of Fire." It has an average of 1500 fires per day, or more than one a minute, a daily loss of $600,000. A value equal to one-quarter the total for all the new buildings erected each year is thus destroyed, and in 1906 this proportion rose to one-half. Every fire subtracts a definite sum of the national wealth through irretrievable loss. This country is proud of its petroleum, gold, silver, and copper production, but its fire-tax - the direct cost of its fires and the incidental expenditures resulting therefrom - consumes as much wealth as these four industries together create. Fire is one of the great outstanding economic factors of American civilization, and, in consequence, fire insurance has become one of our most familiar institutions. The American public has, in a general way, some acquaintance with these facts and has grown to look upon fire insurance as a natural precaution, but there has been slight appreciation of the magnitude of loss-statistics or of the vast proportions of American fire underwriting, with its thirty million policies and its sixty billion dollars on insurance in force. 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.
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Brockton Public Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce Hensler
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597976849
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (979 download)
Download or read book Crucible of Fire written by Bruce Hensler and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-century American cities. However, urban rebirth in the aftermath of great fires offered a chance to shape the future. Ultimately residents and planners created sweeping changes in the methods of constructing buildings, planning city streets, engineering water distribution systems, underwriting fire insurance, and firefighting itself. Crucible of Fire describes how the practical knowledge gained from fighting nineteenth-century fires gave form and function to modern fire protection efforts. Changes in materials and building design resulted directly from tragedies such as fires in supposedly fireproof hotels. Thousands of buildings burned, millions of dollars were lost, the fire insurance industry faltered, and the nature of volunteerism changed radically before municipal authorities took the necessary actions. The great fires formed a crucible of learning for firefighters, engineers, architects, underwriters, and citizens. Veteran firefighter Bruce Hensler shows how the modern American fire service today is a direct result of the lessons of history and a rethinking of the efficacy of volunteerism in fighting fires. Crucible of Fire is an eye-opening look at today's fire service and a thorough examination of what firefighters, civic leaders, and ordinary citizens can do to protect their homes and communities from the mistakes of the past.
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Author : Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.)
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Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book Worcester Library Bulletin written by Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 932 pages
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Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Carnegie Free Library (Allegheny, Pa.)
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Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by Carnegie Free Library (Allegheny, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Tebeau
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421407620
Total Pages : 441 pages
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Download or read book Eating Smoke written by Mark Tebeau and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the nation's largest cities. Between 1871 and 1906, conflagrations left Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, and San Francisco in ruins. Into the twentieth century, this dynamic hazard intensified as cities grew taller and more populous, confounding those who battled it. Firefighters' death-defying feats captured the popular imagination but too often failed to provide more than symbolic protection. Hundreds of fire insurance companies went bankrupt because they could not adequately deal with the effects of even smaller blazes. Firefighters and fire insurers created a physical and cultural infrastructure whose legacy—in the form of heroic firefighters, insurance policies, building standards, and fire hydrants—lives on in the urban built environment. In Eating Smoke, Mark Tebeau shows how the changing practices of firefighters and fire insurers shaped the built landscape of American cities, the growth of municipal institutions, and the experience of urban life. Drawing on a wealth of fire department and insurance company archives, he contrasts the invention of a heroic culture of firefighters with the rational organizational strategies by fire underwriters. Recognizing the complexity of shifting urban environments and constantly experimenting with tools and tactics, firefighters fought fire ever more aggressively—"eating smoke" when they ventured deep into burning buildings or when they scaled ladders to perform harrowing rescues. In sharp contrast to the manly valor of firefighters, insurers argued that the risk was quantifiable, measurable, and predictable. Underwriters managed hazard with statistics, maps, and trade associations, and they eventually agitated for building codes and other reforms, which cities throughout the nation implemented in the twentieth century. Although they remained icons of heroism, firefighters' cultural and institutional authority slowly diminished. Americans had begun to imagine fire risk as an economic abstraction. By comparing the simple skills employed by firefighters—climbing ladders and manipulating hoses—with the mundane technologies—maps and accounting charts—of insurers, the author demonstrates that the daily routines of both groups were instrumental in making intense urban and industrial expansion a less precarious endeavor.
