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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 146, 12 June 1876, Page 2

Archy at Sea. — An lt able seaman" from Ardnamurcban was at the '■ tiller of his sloop one night, shortly after tbe introduction of the colored signallights on ships. A steamer was approaching, and Archy saw the green: and red lights for the first time at sea: He astonished his shipmates by yelling out, "' Hard a-port — hard a-port 1 We're gaun richt intea the 'pothecar'y shop at Gourock !" New and important experiments heve been made in New York in ektinguishing fires] by anew proces?. The* New York Herald of March 1 reports that in the presence of orenerai Sbaler, members of the Fire department arid gentlemen connected with the Board of Underwriters, the Chamber, of Commerce, and insurane e companies generally, the Connelly -fire extinguisher was exhibited on an open lot at the corner ot Fifty-ninth street and Eleventh-

avjefaiie. A large frame building had 1 a j ß'"ec<-'***4, iu which 'were placed I thr^e cylindrical ;resfiryoirß\filled with KsM^.oP^.. acid gas, land adjacent were* eight other cylinder^ used as receivers, from which the gaa escaped into the bosp. An immense pile of barrels — two barrels deep and about five barrels high— the pile contaioing althogether 130 barrels of refuse resin, both ends of the barrels being open, stood at the east end of tbe lot. A smaller pile of -boards, with- two barrels of. refined oil on top, like the funeral pyre of Brutus, .stood ailittle east of the resin, and to the westward was a tank four feet deep, built of brick, and cemented, and having'a surface area of 600.equare feet, , containing 375 gallons of crude petro- ' leui*o Vr and .inlq- -.which sluice pipes emptied -'irate i.;. -The ttank ftill.., of .oil and water was fired firjst,,snd a tremen--dous mass of flame -and smoke , arose, driving the crowd right and left by the intense heat. . In less than fire seconds this great mass of flame, as thick as (pulp or Ave ordinary brick houses, and three times as high j was. extinguished by the" stream pf water expelled . from the: hose hy. the force of carbonic acid gas. [uThe noise made was like that caused by. a thunderstorm rushing through a inoAntain 'pass. Next the 13*^ barrel^ of resi6 were fired, and ( ished;7in less than six minutes by a rapid stream ten;, times ['stronger than that which could be expelled, by a stearaiengine from a nozzle of jthe same diameter.; *,*and lastly the fuqeral pyre was lighted, and, blazing „,as it cjidiwith:great; intensity,; was extinguished in a few minutes. The experiments, were in eVery way successful, "and introduced a new agent of the most powerful kind for the Baving of property. 7.7 . y. —l l_j.ll'_l'_^ . ja' !t__ji_l_.uL' a_~ i-jjiliJis [For'continuation of Newt see fourth page.) nx_7,_._. . _ v '■"* ' " ■" —rr I I I I ; I i