Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — Leaks. [ARTICLE]

Leaks.

An ingenious method of Indicating nnd stopping a leak by the use es pressed air, has been devised by an inventor. By this method the ship is divided into airtight compartmonta, fitted with* doors provided wltff packing material and connected by tubes with a room on deck called the “switch room." There is a junction client In this room supplied with compressed air from fixed or portable compressors, and so arranged that the air can be delivered to any of the compartment-s. Other tubes had from the compartment, from which water can be forced out when requirwl, nd for the purpose of indicating the accumulation of ri’ater in any' of the compartments electric indicators are also connected with the switch room.

The Saxon village of Elsleben, fa-mous-an the birthplace of Luther, is falling into decay as the result of continued earthquake slioeks, which began InISXL "X. .