State of Connecticut.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
MARCUS H. HOLCOMB,
GOVERNOR
|HE great natural resources of this country, its genius
Fºl in the utilization of them and its relatively scant pop-
* ulation have made its people in many respects careless
and wasteful. Not the least important result of this national
fault has been the setting of innumerable needless fires. During
the last year alone, fire caused to this country the loss of five
thousand lives, and destroyed more than a quarter of a billion
dollars worth of property, an average of five hundred dollars
worth for every minute of the year. If this destruction were
inevitable, it would call only for a grim resignation, but by
far the greater portion of it was preventable.
So strong has become the realization of the inexcusable
extravagance of a failure to take proper steps to reduce it,
that the legislature has directed a day to be set apart for its
consideration, and, obedient to that mandate, I do now
designate Monday, October the ninth, as
3fire irruputint
and I request that on that day, the teachers in our schools, the
writers in our press, and all others in positions of influence,
great or small, direct their efforts to the study of the causes
of this fearful and needless waste and the steps which may
be taken to prevent it. i
States the one hundred and forty-first.
By His Excellency's Command :
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Secretary.
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Given under my hand and the seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford,
this nineteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand,
nine hundred and sixteen, and of the independence of the United







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