Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1908 — Lessening Fires at Sea. [ARTICLE]

Lessening Fires at Sea.

Carbonic acid has been suggested by an Italian Inventor as means for lessening the danger of fires on shipboard. The gas could be stored in the hold, either in the solid form or in steel cylinders in liquid condition. It is argued that in either form it would be innocuous to cargo and, as its density is very high, It would permeate alUthe Interstices between bales and cases and sink to the bottom of the hold. Wherever it reaches nothing can burn, so that perfect immunity from fire would be obtained up to the level of the gas. The gas itself is a waste product of breweries and the only cost is the expense of the condensing plant. Before discharging the oargo ventilation would be necessary. India's Water Supply. A British government engineer living In Bombay asserts that India has the largest artificial fresh-water reservoir in the world. He says that In the native state of Uralpur in Rajputana, some thirty miles south of the city of the great Jalaamand, the Dhebar lake. The dam of this lake was built some 200 years ago by the Mhharana Jal Singh? Itcoven an area of between twenty-one and twenty-five square miles. Its depth at the dam is ninety feet and its capacity Is estimated at 153,000,000,000 gallons. Canada now poessesses twelve wlreCanada now possesses twelve wireend gulf of St Lawrence and the Atlantic coast Of the twelve stations, which are under the direction of the department' of marine and fisheries, nine are high power and three - WW' power. The former can communicate with vessels up t 4 a distance of 150 miles, while the radius of the latter Is about 130 miles.