Excerpt from The Armour Engineer, Vol. 9: The Quarterly Technical Publication of the Student Body of Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, November, 1916 Small fires, before they have gained headway, can be very easily controlled by the use of small hose streams in charge of occupants of the buildings during the day time, and by watchmen during the night and on holidays. 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.