Excerpt from Building Code: A Compilation of Building Regulations Covering Every Phase of Municipal Building Activity With Special Emphasis on Fire Preventive Features

Protection and a rapidly increasing number of people are beginning to realize it. Town and city councils find that it is better to have buildings in their midst which will not readily catch fire rather than to maintain an expensive fire department to protect fire traps and allow new fire traps to be built in congested localities. 'jl Strange as it may seem, it took years of strenuous effort on the part of the believers in this principle of fire prevention before the movement could gain sufficient headway to become a' potential force in the constructive activity of this country. In the end the owner, the architect, and the contractor have had to be compelled by proper municipal legislation to build'according to fire prevention specifications before much progress could be made.

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