Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — The Quenerting as Son. [ARTICLE]

The Quenerting as Son.

Investigation Into ih* causes uMh* iwjimt fires on tn-aaiushipe have shown that the use of a vary simple means of fL' * or Unction, the Injection of carbonic gas Into the hold. Is very often not r» tortod to when It would be of the utmost service. It Is a matter for surprise that this effective safeguard, which requires for its generation only a few barrels of marble dust and twenty to thirty gallons of hydrochlorio acid, with hogsheads for the confinement of the gas and hose for Its Injection, is not universally employed for tho preservation of life and property on the high seas, especially as In the hold of a vessel, which can bo tightly closod, the principle of chemical extinction oan be applied with almost certain success. The adoption of such a system would result not only in the saving of property, but It might at any time prove tho meaus of averting loss of life.