消防和水工程。
上周，这座城市的夜间帖子鉴于纽约州埃尔米拉（Elmira）的冰冻水管被电融化，将这种方法称为“新颖”。对于该论文工作人员的sciolists而言，这可能是新颖的，对于水工人来说，没有什么新颖的。至少，我们可以放心，这是由Elmira Waterworks的负责人认为，他作为美国水工厂协会的部长会记得，该论文的一篇论文是由麦迪逊校长T. B. Heim读的，威斯康星州的水工厂，在俄亥俄州哥伦布之前，该机构的约定于1899年。威斯康星大学物理教练R. W. Wood的工作人员和电气工程学教授Dugald C. Jackson，C.E.。这些先生不仅是发现了这一事实的发现，而且还发明了应用电力的方法，而且，无私地向世界发表了这种方法，而不是使金钱从这个过程中获利。而且，如果据称他们的方法仅用于领导服务管道，那么在威斯康星州沃特敦（Watertown）和同一州的马什菲尔德（Marshfield）的第二十五卷消防和水工程（第173-74页）中将看到它，数百英尺的六英寸铸铁管成功地解冻了，没有丝毫受伤的电源。夜间帖子的新颖方法仅仅是对该期刊的指挥的新颖性，我们将自由推荐将来它应该坚持下去。
自从巴尔的摩火每个城市和小镇has been more or less stirred up by the fear that such a conflagration is possible (some claim it is probable) within its limits. The fire at Rochester, N. Y., and the burning of the State capitol at Madison, Wis., have tended in a large degree to increase this dread of the intangible something that hangs over the various communities like a cloud, and, were it possible, there is no doubt many dwellers in cities would willingly betake themselves to the fields (not the woods, since they are liable to be consumed by forest fires), and camp out in the open, until this tyranny of fear be overpassed. That ordinary folk should be thus swayed by emotional terrors of this description is, perhaps, not to be wondered at. They are not supposed to be intelligent judges as to the probabilities or possibilities of such outbreaks of fire occurring in their midst. We must, however, confess to mild astonishment when we find fire chiefs of acknowledged reputation as experts on the subject of fire protection either echoing or initiating such fears. There is no need for them to get excited on the subject. They must remember that the fire at Baltimore broke out in a ramshackle building surrounded by narrow streets and other buildings of a similar character, and that, through no fault of Chief Horton, the department was not sufficiently equipped either with men or apparatus—two deficiencies which, so to say, were taken advantage of by the fire and the high wind that was blowing at the time. The flames, therefore, spread too rapidly for the limited force to be able to cope with it, nor was it till assistance came from without, with plenty of engine power and men fresh for the struggle to operate the engines, that the fire was controled. It w'as the same at Rochester, as it has been everywhere else (for big fires occur the world over), that, given engines enough and good men enough, there is no conflagration too fierce for a well directed attack upon it to fail. The moral is obvious: The best economy in the line of fire protection is not to starve either the fire or the water department.
