FIRE AND WATER
Francis C. Moore insists that it would be a fatal mistake to take advantage of the excavations for the rapid transit subway to build underground pipe galleries, at least as far as concerns utilising them for the reception of gas mains, on account of the danger arising from leakage of the gas into these galleries. The objection is not well taken, and for the following reasons: The pipe galleries and the subway will not be connected, but will be altogether independent of them: it is neither reasonable to expect nor a probability to be anticipated that, with the gas pipes so easily to be reached for inspection or repair as they will be in the galleries, they will be allowed to leak as freely as they do at present when buried under the ground, and, therefore, hard to get at (any leakage being discoverable at once and presumably stopped without unnecessary delay) ; proper and adequate precautions will be taken for the ventilation of the galleries: and from the very nature of the case there will be no need to break down their walls whenever a service connection has to be made. Mr. Moore must bring forward some valid objection if he would see such an obvious improvement hindered.
Francis C. Moore insists that it would be a fatal mistake to take advantage of the excavations for the rapid transit subway to build underground pipe galleries, at least as far as concerns utilising them for the reception of gas mains, on account of the danger arising from leakage of the gas into these galleries. The objection is not well taken, and for the following reasons: The pipe galleries and the subway will not be connected, but will be altogether independent of them: it is neither reasonable to expect nor a probability to be anticipated that, with the gas pipes so easily to be reached for inspection or repair as they will be in the galleries, they will be allowed to leak as freely as they do at present when buried under the ground, and, therefore, hard to get at (any leakage being discoverable at once and presumably stopped without unnecessary delay) ; proper and adequate precautions will be taken for the ventilation of the galleries: and from the very nature of the case there will be no need to break down their walls whenever a service connection has to be made. Mr. Moore must bring forward some valid objection if he would see such an obvious improvement hindered.
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