Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1881 — German Eire-Proof Suits. [ARTICLE]

German Eire-Proof Suits.

The suit is made of thick woolen stuff, which is saturated inside with wax and covered on the outside with a thick layer of ocher and sulphur. The metal helmet for the protection of the head has a protruding part closed with thick glass, from which a trunklike hose or tube depends, which is filled with moistened pieces of sponge, The ah’ is admitted

through a perforated bottom-plate of the trunk, and is cooled and freed from smoke by passing through the little pieces of sponge. A spiral-formed layer of wire gives the air tube the necessary strength. While due provision is thus made for inhaling good air, the heat of the fire draws out the moisture from the inner wool and layer of wax, by which means the body is kept cool and an easy movement of the body secured. The outer layer of the dross is water-proof and incombustible; the heat raises blisters on the same without, however, exposing the woolen stuff to the fire. The outer layer must be renewed every time after use.