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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ... the following suggestions:--' that a Fire Police would be the most effective security and provision against fire, and the accidents attendant thereon; and if they were furnished with expedie... More

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ... the following suggestions:--' that a Fire Police would be the most effective security and provision against fire, and the accidents attendant thereon; and if they were furnished with expedients, similar to the plan of Captain Manby, would be most successfuly employed for saving lives and property, and beneficial in detecting and checking the numerous crimes that occur at fires.' "The adoption of a Fire Police, if furnished with fire-carts, and the necessary apparatus, would, by possessing these means of instant application, leave no doubt on my mind, that important benefits would accrue to all classes of the community. To the Insurance Companies it would often be an immense saving, by preventing the destruction of property insured at their offices. To the public it would afford a much greater security than they at present possess, and supply what they stand in need of; viz. a more efficacious protection to their lives and personal safety. It would also furnish a means for the preservation of papers, important documents, pictures, paintings, and property of such description as cannot be insured, and which no pecuniary remuneration could replace; still further, from the promptness with which it may be used, and its ready application, it would materially serve to detect the crime of arson, and defeat the malignant attempt at revenge on the part of the incendiary." On the re-appointment of the Committee in the following year, I was informed that its members were to meet solely for the purpose of drawing up the report of their proceedings during the former session. On hearing this my hopes ceased. I shall therefore now state the object contemplated by myself in wishing to be examined before a branch of the Legislature. In this I was influenced by more...

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