LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2172, 10 June 1914, Page 8

LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES.

,vour kind .perhrissioii ihft writer would like to. point out what ho eousiders oufiht to fe enforced jn the Jittiivß put «f all passoiiper- ■ carrying vessels. This lossoii is brailiihl ! home to its te' tho jjzpii' ItesWf's throujili the coiliflijvg of ili>> collier yili? the. ili-'hleri Empress of .Jwrey Sir, if during the Suing'o«ii of vesstfjs, i lockers built- iiv, jiist under Uw <np- ■ p:ccr> of the. bulwarks, nxleudinf; rijtlvt■found the 'vessel,, enfclv fiy.? ■ fi-ot .feiig, and TOJisteji ftiiwii So within, ■ ..sa.V> eighteen inches of the naK-nvsv., " and about. sis inches dfep, with do.ub'o doors—doors to open.f'W and /.ff. eaeh alternate ode eottld • '"<* an >"™ •wider, tli.O'ii. its i^ : iciibblrr : ,;.so. ithait wlioii f ; the doors wore thrown open, 'one ' door would overlap the other, ayd in : bp by a. button. so that dwhiz it cjilaiti&v. project inc-doors would not lie. . in tho why. On the outside of cash' looker J..ouUl have. painted on (ho words "Life-belts,. jio. 1." a ltd m;> wards, and onch waich bluDilc have dwina driil times a certain hum- : bar for bis station. It 'would only <>e.-. cupy a few seconds to ilirow open his ' dooks and secure tbeni well. back.•/thereby t ooab!mc hiiii ironicdiafe.lv tp proceed In other ihit-ios- in the event. of a snddr.K calamity ta.kuis* place. Also; Sir, j each st>w;:ird aiid stewardess slrfVila. ! Ivue ndioiitinp: their cabins cxti-ii lock- | c-n, also supplied with life-bells, so 1 that anyone with whom they mipht i come fit <?:t below .tnicht be. ms)>'plied. and a rule .should b.o made rbat. e!i n:'S:>nß'ers: lie ma do n'oqua.iiiM with the lif"'-heH lookers. There also oiij.ht ; to bo .•v.painted netiee nn all-piisso.nger- : tickets. The life-belts should bo so . lump, in the' iockets that' should tho

Vessel suddonly founder, tho doors, being thus open, thoy would float from their hooks and strew tho sen amongst tho drowning people. Somo time ago tho writer drew the 'attention of tho Press to the great need thoro was for a system of looker arrangements—to bo . fitted up under the railway carriages— to contain certain necessary tools, so as to bo readily obtainable in the event of a railway smash; but from tho account of tho lato accident it does not scorn as if • niuoh notice was. taken. Again, then, Sir, lot mo rahe a warnmg cry—and let others take up tho , cry—until something tangible takos place.—l am, etc., HENRY WALTON. "Waikanae.