Dedication
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD HENRY GEORGE CHARLES GORDON LENNOX,
M.P.
FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS;
THIS VOLUME IS, BY KIND PERMISSION,
Respectfully Inscribed.
Preface
A small book, embracing such subjects as herein treated of, is necessarily somewhat disconnected in its character. In endeavouring to be strictly practical, I fear I have made some portions of the book uninteresting to the general reader; if so, it must be remembered that my chief aim has been to place certain facts before professional and business men, at the same time introducing matter that may be useful to everyone.
I have to offer my best thanks to Colonel Fraser, Colonel Henderson, Captain Shaw, and other Gentlemen, who have afforded me valuable help.
If the importance of protecting life and property becomes in the least degree better understood and appreciated, I shall feel amply repaid for the time and trouble incurred in the preparation of the book.
57 St. Paul’s Churchyard, London:
January 1875.