Western Union Fire Alarm is in working order; Hemingray one of the plants on system

NEW SYSTEM

Of Fire Alarms Been

Placed In Factories.

Will Be Worked by Telephone and

Watchman Will Have to

Report Every Hour.

The fire alarm system that has been put into operation by the Western Union Telegraph Company in order to give more adequate protection to those factories that are especially liable to catch fire has been a success from the start.

The Meeks Rivet Works, Handle and Carriage factories, C. H. Overs glass house, Hemingray's factory and the two plants of the Muncie Glass com­pany are at present the only ones bene­fited by the system, but since a trial has demonstrated the success of the system, there will be other large factories added to the list.

Two boxes are placed in each fac­tory and the watchmen turn in their reports every hour or half hour. In case of a fire the watchmen sends in an alarm over the wire and the fire de­partment is notified by telephone from the Western Union headquarters. When the new indicator is in place at the fire department, the alarm from this system will be made authentically on this indicator.

The system serves not only for the purpose of fire protection but also as an indicator that the matchmen [sic] watchmen are making their rounds regularly. If the watchman fails to turn in his call every hour, the operator who is kept at the telegraph office will note this fact and report it to the proper officers of the factory concerned.

The idea in building this system is to give the factories fire alarm boxes that are located directly within their plants and at the same time do away with errors that may arise from sending in alarms over the telephone.