LAST YEAR’S FIRE WASTE.
The official tabulated and classified list of fires that took place in this country during 1900 shows that there were burned 151 fair and exposition buildings; fifteen armories; nine art galleries; seventy-eight asylnm buildings; seventy-nine college buildings; 143 clubhouses; nine convents; forty-six courthouses; three custom houses; two dry docks; twenty-five electric powerhouses; 147 enginehouses; thirty-seven express offices; fifty-four gas works; eleven government buildings; 154 grain elevators; seven gymnasiums; 622 public and society halls; seventy-three hospital buildings; 1,321 hotels; 354 icehouses; sixtyfour jails; nineteen public libraries; 1,301 liquor stores; seventeen public markets; nine shipyards; sixteen penitentiary and reformatory buildings; fortyseven police and fire department stations; 256 postoffices ; seven powder mills; 470 printing houses; 142 railroad bridges; forty-one car shops; 331 station buildings; forty roundhouses; forty-eight railroad stables; 943 restaurants; twelve rinks; 528 schoolhouses; thirty-one seminary buildings; two statehouses; 133 theatres and opera houses; 140 tobacco barns: 332 vessels at wharves or on rivers; fifty-nine wharves; eighty windmills; and forty-two water tanks, No less than 49,298 dwellings and tenements were also burned as well as 14,578 barns, stables, etc.
