FIRES IN PRIVATE RESIDENCES.
In commenting editorially on the disastrous Mason fire of last Sunday morning in Harlem, the New York Tribune points out that the fate of those who lost their lives on that occasion was “such as to make people who live in an average residence of no special size and with no unusual precautions against destruction by fire naturally nervous. The combustion within gave no warning on the outside until the chance of escape was destroyed for every occupant of the bouse. There was a policeman on the beat, the house was not in a remote part of the city, it was certain that the flames would be discovered before the building was wiped out, but yet the smoke and fire were left to work their destruction.”
Woodland, Minn., has contracted for a new gas engine and pump for its pumping station. The engine will be of fifty-horsepower. Within two minutes after starting it will be able, through direct pressure to the pipes, to generate 140 pounds to the square inch and maintain three one-inch nozzles throwing horizontal streams a distance of too feet.
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