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Excerpt from Report of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1923 I submit the following report of the transactions of the fire depart ment during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1923: During the year alarms of fire were received, an increase of 795 over the number received during the fiscal year 1922. Of these alarms, were box alarms and local or telephone calls. Of the alarms received. 210 were false, an increase of 29 over the number of such alarms received during the fiscal year 1922. Twelve arrests were made by the police department for the sounding of false alarms, and four convictions were obtained. Nineteen fires which appeared to be of a suspicious nature and three of probably incendiary origin occurred during the year. In two of the latter cases convictions were obtained and the guilty parties sentenced to the penitentiary for two and five year terms, respectively. 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.