p. 11 | An Expensive Smoke

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 10, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 24.

An Expensive Smoke

An Expensive Smoke.—Smoking a cigaret in bed, a young man in San Francisco, May 23, fell asleep. The cigaret slipped from his lips, ignited the bedding, and the resultant fire destroyed the lodging-house where he slept, together with five other buildings, causing a total loss of $80,000. Fifteen lodgers barely escaped with their lives, and a fireman was severely burned while fighting the fire. Slave to a filthy habit, one man destroyed the property and took away the means of livelihood of many people, jeopardizing many lives. Surely it costs too much.