STEAM FOR FIRE EXTINGUISHMENT.
The Baltimore Underwriter, which is usually well informed on the subject of fire matters, in its last issue prints the following paragraph :
" The representative of the National Board of Fire Underwriters at the eighth annual Convention of the National Association of Fire Engineers, Mr. D. W. C. Shilton, in the course of a brief address threw out a significant hint as to the future bearing of the advent of Steam Heating Companies in our larger cities upon the present mode of extingui-hing fires. He expressed the belief that in a short time Engines and Pumps without boilers will be drawn to fires, and connections be made with the steam heating pipes, proper places for such connecliors being provided near all hydrants; and that doing away with the boilers will largely reduce the size and weight of machines, and time and expense be saved. Mr. Skilton might have looked a little farther ahead, and predicted as a result of the use of steam heating pipes in the streets the direct application of the steam itself to the flames, with its infinitely greater capacity for extinguishment.”
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