British Dominions, London Buffalo American, Buffalo, N. Y. Caledonian, Scotland. Caledonian American, New York, N. Y. City of New York, New York. National Union Fire, Pittsburgh, Pa. New Brunswick Fire, New Brunswick, New Hampshire Fire, Manchester, N. H. Northern Assurance, London. North British and Mercantile, Edin- Norske Lloyd, Christiana, Norway. Pa. Old Colony, Boston, Mass. Equitable F. & M., Providence, R. I. Fire Association, Philadelphia, Pa. Firemen's, Washington, D. C. Georgia Home, Columbus, Ga. Humboldt Fire, Pittsburgh, Pa. Insurance Co. of N. America, Phila- Insurance Company, State of Penn- Knickerbocker, N. Y. Law, Union and Rock, London. Liverpool and London and Globe, New London and Lancashire Fire, Liverpool. National Fire, Hartford, Ct. Paternelle, Paris, France Pennsylvania Fire, Philadelphia, Pa. Petersburg Savings and Ins. Co., Pe- Phoenix Fire, Paris. Phoenix, Hartford, Ct. Phoenix Assurance, London. Portsmouth Fire Association, Portsmouth, N. H. Potomac, Washington, D. C. Providence Washington, Providence, Queen, New York. Reliance, Philadelphia, Pa. Rhode Island, Providence, R. I. Royal, Liverpool. Royal Exchange Assurance, London. Scottish Union and National, Edin- Second Russian Reinsurance. Petrograd Springfield F. & M., Springfield, Mass. Swiss Reinsurance, Basle, Switz. Twin City Fire, Minneapolis, Minn. United Firemens, Philadelphia, Pa. Virginia F. & M., Richmond, Va. NATIONAL BOARD OF MARINE UNDERWRITERS was organized July 18, 1882, for the purpose of obtaining information and the discussion and exchange of views upon all matters of marine underwriting. The present officers, elected at the annual meeting in May, 1918, are: President, William H. McGee; vice-president, H. K. Fowler; secretary, Harry Bird; assistant secretary, E. G. Driver; treasurer, Louis F. Burke; assistant treasurer, J. S. Gilbertson. NATIONALE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PARIS, France. Organized 1820. Starkweather & Shepley, Inc., United States managers, Providence, R. I. NATIONAL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, Elizabeth, N. J. Organized 1865; capital, $100,000. H. R. Chambers, president; John W. Whelan, vice-president; H. C. Trowbridge, secretary; Charles Bogert, general agent. NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY of Hartford Conn. Organized 1871; capital, $2,000,000. H. A. Smith, president; Geo. H. Tryon, vice-president; Frank D. Layton, secretary; S. T. Maxwell, assistant secretary; F. B. Seymour, treasurer. NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION. At a meeting of inspectors representing associations and boards of fire underwriters, and others engaged in the business of fire insurance, held in the city of New York, November 5, 1896, an organization was effected of an association with the above title. Its purposes were set forth in the following articles: tion. This organization shall be known as the National Fire Protection Associa The objects of the association are to promote the science and improve the methods of fire protection; to obtain and circulate information on this subject and to secure co-operation of its members in establishing proper safeguards against loss of life and property by fire. The membership is divided into four classes: Active, associate, subscribing, and honorary. Active members consist of insurance boards and associations having primary jurisdiction and national institutes, societies, and associations interested in fire protection. Associate members are individuals engaged in the fire insurance business, or members of the associations represented in the active membership. Individuals. firms, and corporations interested in protection of life and property against loss by fire and eligible to become subscribing members, and honorary membership is bestowed on ex-members, prominent in the promotion of the objects of the association and provided they are not identified with fire protection from a commercial standpoint. Officers and executive committee were chosen as follows: C. C. Little, president; E. U. Crosby, secretary; U. C. Crosby, F. E. Cabot, W. H. Stratton, W. A. Anderson, William Bonner, Robert Jardine, Albert Blauvelt, executive committee, with three more named respectively by the South Eastern Tariff Association, Philadelphia Fire Underwriters' Association, and Underwriters' Association of the Middle Department. The twenty-second annual meeting was held in Chicago, Ill., May 7, 8, and 9, 1918. President Weiderhold presided and in his address reviewed the work of the year, and conditions in respect to the work of the association. Reports from the executive committee and Secretary Wentworth were submitted reviewing the work and affairs of the association for the year, and a paper was read by W. E. Mallalieu, general agent of the National Board of Fire Underwriters on "The Public Service of the Fire Underwriter in War Time." 64 Reports were presented by the committees on membership, Charles E. Meek, chairman; Public Information," Franklin H. Wentworth, chairman; "State Fire Prevention Associations," Thomas R. Waddell, chairman; and by the Canadian committee. Reports were also presented by standing committees on special and technical subjects as follows: "Fire Resistive Construction," Ira H. Woolson, chairman; 'Explosives and Combustibles," A. C. Hutson, chairman; Laws and Ordinances," Albert de Roode, chairman; "Electrical," F. E. Cabot, chairman; Manufacturing Risks and Special Hazards," Benjamin Richards, chairman; "Standard Hose Couplings and Hydrant Fittings for Public Fire Service," J. H. Howland, chairman; Fire Pumps," H. O. Lacount, chairman; Hydrants and Valves," H. O. Lacount, chairman; "Safety to Life." H. W. Forster, chairman; " Uses of Wood in Building Construction," Julius Franke, chairman; "Protection of Openings in Walls and Partitions," W. C. Robinson, chairman; "Private Fire Supplies from Public Mains," E. V. French, chairman; "Fire and Accident Prevention Day," H. P. Weaver, chairman; "High Value Districts," "Field Practice," C. H. Patton, chairman; Nomenclature," Mason R. Strong, chairman. In addition to the above reports there was a round table discussion of the general subject, "Fire Protection in Hotels and Apartment Houses," with sub-topics: "Planning Hotels and Apartment Houses for Safety," and "Building Code Essentials." Officers were elected as follows: President, F. J. T. Stewart, New York; vice-president, H. O. Lacount, Boston; second vice-president, W. E. Mallalieu, New York; secretary and treasurer, Franklin H. Wentworth, Boston, Mass. The following were elected members of the executive committee (for three years): Gorham Dana, Boston; H. W. Forster, Philadelphia; Rudolph P. Miller, New York; H. L. Phillips, Hartford; A. R. Small, Chicago; and John B. Laidlaw, Toronto (for one year). H. L. Phillips, Hartford, is chairman of the committee, and the other members are: (1918), H. W. Forster, Philadelphia; E. B. Hatch, Chicago; H. O. Lacount, Boston; A. M. Schoen, Atlanta; Mason R. Strong, New York; (1919), W. F. Ballinger, Philadelphia; E. V. French, Boston; F. J. T. Stewart, New York; Sidney J. Williams, Madison, Wis.; Ira H. Woolson, New York; (1920), C. Hellar, San Francisco; R. H. Newbern, Philadelphia; S. W. Stratton, Washington; C. L. Scofield, Montreal; Clem E. Wheeler, Milwaukee. The following resolutions were adopted: The National Fire Protection Association assembled in Chicago for its twentysecond annual meeting, again calls attention to the unusual hazards to life and property created throughout America by the world war. These hazards demand the utmost vigilance and initiative not only from those in authority, but from the private citizen as well. Every individual should consider himself a fire warden of the nation at this critical time, and should equip himself to serve his country by safeguarding to the extent of his intelligence and ability every form of natural and created resource. The elimi nation of waste, at all times the duty of good citizenship, is at this moment our profoundest public and private responsibility. In its warfare against the needless sacrifice of human lives and property by fire the Association advocates the following measures: 1. The adoption by municipalities of the Standard Building Code of the National Board of Fire Underwriters to the end that fire-resistive building construction may be encouraged, the use of inflammable roof coverings prohibited, adequate exit facilites from buildings assured, and interiors so designed and fire-stopped as to make easy the extinguishment of fires therein. 2. The adoption by all States of minimum building requirements for the protection of State and county hospitals, schools, asylums and similar institutions outside city limits and of small communities in which the establishment and enforcement of a building code is impracticable. 3. The enactment by each State of the fire marshal law advocated by the Fire Marshal's Association of North America to the end that official investigation may be made of the causes of all fires, preventable fires may be eliminated by public education, and the crime of arson stamped out. 4. The adoption of the Association's suggested ordinance providing for the systematic inspection of all buildings by city fire marshals or local firemen to insure the vigorous enforcement of rules for cleanliness, good housekeeping, and the maintenance of safe and unobstructed exits, fire-fighting apparatus and other protective devices. 5. The enactment of ordinances similar to that of Cleveland, Ohio, fixing the cost of extinguishing preventable fires upon citizens disregarding fire prevention orders, and a more general legal recognition of the common law principle of personal liability for damage resulting from fires due to carelessness or neglect. 6. The wider general use of the automatic sprinkler as a fire extinguishing agent and life saver and the more general adoption of the fire division wall as an important life saving exit facility. 7. A careful study of the technical surveys of cities made by the engineers of the Committee on Fire Prevention of the National Board of Fire Underwriters covering the items of water supplies, their adequacy and reliability, fire department efficiency, fire alarm systems and conflagration hazards, and of the possibility of co-operation among neighboring cities through mutual aid and the standardization of hose couplings. 8. The adoption of the Association's suggested laws and ordinances for State and municipal regulation of the transportation, storage and use of inflammable liquids and explosives. 9. The universal adoption and use of the safety match, and legislation prohibiting smoking in all parts of factories, industrial and mercantile buildings, except in such fireproof rooms as may be especially approved for the purpose by fire departments. 10. The education of children and the public generally in careful habits regarding the use of fire. 11. The co-ordination of all these activities, through a central administration officer or body of the State or city having primary jurisdiction, for the purpose of promoting uniformity of action and efficient co-operation. In the furtherance of these objects the Association appeals for the co-operation of all citizens. It asks them to help in the dissemination of its valuable literature and in the use of the standards of fire protection so carefully worked out by its committees to the end that the lives and substance of our people shall not continue to be dissipated by a reckless and easily preventable waste. Active members of the Association, May 1, 1918, were as follows: American Institute of Architects. American Institute of Consulting Engineers. American Institute of Electrical Engineers. American Institute of Mining Engineers. American Ceramic Association. American Paper and Pulp Association. American Gas Institute. American Electric Railway Association. Arkansas Actuarial Bureau. Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Co.'s Inspection Bureau. Associated Manufacturers of Electrical Supplies. Associated Metal Lath Manufacturers. Association of Edison Illuminating Companies. Association of Fire Underwriters of Baltimore City. Board of Fire Underwriters of Allegheny County. Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific. Board of Fire Underwriters of the Territory of Hawaii. 120 Boston Board of Fire Underwriters. Buffalo Association of Fire Underwriters. Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association. Chicago Board of Underwriters of Chicago. Cleveland Branch, Ohio Inspection Bureau. Clay Products Association. Committee of Manufacturers on Standardization of Fittings and Valves. Cotton Insurance Association. Electrical Supply Jobbers' Association. Factory Insurance Association. Fire Underwriters Electrical Bureau. Fire Prevention Bureau of the Pacific. Florida Fire Prevention Society. Gypsum Industries Association. Illinois Inspection Bureau. Illinois State Fire Prevention Association. Indiana State Fire Prevention Association. Indiana Inspection Bureau. Institute of Makers of Explosives. Insurance Association of Providence. International Acetylene Association. International Association of Fire Engineers. International Association of Municipal Electricians. Iowa Insurance Service Bureau. Iowa State Fire Prevention Association. Kansas Inspection and Fire Prevention Office. Kentucky Actuarial Bureau. Kentucky State Fire Prevention Association. Kentucky State Insurance Board. Louisiana Fire Prevention Bureau. Louisiana State Society for the Reduction of Fire Waste. Mainland Fire Underwriters' Association of British Columbia. Massachusetts Mutual Farm Inspection Bureau. Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Union. Michigan Inspection Bureau. Michigan State Fire Prevention Association. Millers' National Federation. Mississippi Inspection and Advisory Rating Company. Mississippi Society for the Prevention of Fires. Missouri Inspection Bureau. Mutual Fire Prevention Bureau. National Association of Building Owners and Managers. National Automatic Sprinkler Association. National Lumber Manufacturers Association. National Association of Credit Men. National Association of Electrical Inspectors. National Association of Insurance Agents, The National Association of Manufacturers of United States. National Assn. of Master Gravel and Slag Roofers of America. National Board of Fire Underwriters. National Convention of Insurance Commissioners. National Commercial Gas Association. National Electrical Contractors' Association. National Electric Light Association. National Association of the Motion Picture Industry. National Association of Sheet Metal Contractors of United States. National Implement and Vehicle Association. National Paint, Oil and Varnish Association. National Warm Air Heating and Ventilating Association. National Wholesale Druggists' Association. National Wholesale Grocers' Association. 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