FIRE AND WATER

FIRE AND WATER

由于参加的危险，可能永远不会被允许在世界公平的地面上的烟花。上周六晚上，在烟火中展出的炸弹在空中爆炸太早爆炸，并从制造商大楼的天窗撞倒。里面有一个窗帘，可以关闭阳光的眩光，炸弹落在了它中，纵火燃烧（有一段时间，人们担心建筑物会着火），但是几个消防员在Ioo脚上爬了出来在大梁上，抓住了窗帘并将其撕裂，扑灭了火焰。许多人见证了他们的勇敢的工作，他们掌声向他们致意。大型建筑物还有其他狭窄的逃生，对地面上的烟花汇演进行了抗议，或者至少在任何建筑物附近都引发了任何烟火，并且很可能在此后进行展览。将在安全的距离上制作。承销商从第一起就反对他们，但是博览会的经理们不愿意放弃这样一个有吸引力的卡。他们所追求的是大门的钱，烟花表演总是吸引人群。然而，大型建筑物之一的破坏几乎不会被门钱补偿，因为如果其中一种易燃结构相当燃烧，火焰将迅速蔓延，以至于其内容物将分享建筑物的命运。

ZTHE annual report of •Col. George H. Elliott, U. S. A., to the chief engineer in charge of the Washington aqueduct, appears in this week’s issue. It is very interesting reading, and brings to notice difficulties encountered of more than ordinary character. The water of the Potomac is largely charged with sediment, and it appears to be quite a task to remove it from the aqueduct in which it is precipitated while the water is on its way to the receiving reservoir. Congress is tardy in meeting the demands for appropriations to keep the aqueduct free, and the result is that the difficulty is enhanced and quarterly expenditures will be made necessary as each year’s accumulation of sediment finds lodgement within the acqueduct. The consumption and waste of water is very great in Washington city, and steps should be taken to abridge the waste of water. The plan suggested fox preventing the pollution of the water of the receiving reservoir is a study, of course, governed by the local conditions surrounding the reservoir, and is worthy of imitation in many water-works plants and watersheds. The natural obstacles in the way of its consummation are more than ordinary, and the progress of tlie work of tunneling under the present aqueduct for the discharge conduit will be watched with growing interest. In the report allusion is made to a structural defect existing in the aqueduct, occasioned by the use of rubble stone in place of brick, which was discovered on inspection of the aqueduct in September, 1891. “ There had been several slides from the roof and sides of the tunnel ” are the words of the report. The subject of filtering the water of the Potomac is considered, and suggestions are made with reference to the expense involved therein. It would seem as if the question of filtration certainly appeals to the authorities of Washington with greater force than it does with any other water supplied city, from the fact that the aqueduct line is constantly exposed to the action of a diminishing factor of daily discharging capacity which will no doubt exercise the skill and ability of Col. Elliott to keep deposits of sediment down to the lowest figure of possible daily accumulation.