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the hose and screw-keys hung up at every landing ready for 
use. These precautions will give additional security to par- 
ties bonding goods, as also to the owner of the property in 
which they are deposited. In addition to the above, it will 
be advisable that all the cocks, hose, and serew-keys be made 
of one size, and the same as those used by the Fire Brigade 
of the town. Before closing this part of the subject, I would 
observe, that an exceedingly simple and ingenious apparatus 
for extinguishing fire has been adopted by Joseph Jones, Esq., 
of Wallshaw, near Oldham. It consists of a thin copper 
globe, of nine inches diameter, perforated full of small holes, 
and suspended from the ceiling of the different rooms, either 
in a mill or a warehouse. Each rose is (in case of need) sup- 
plied with water by lines of pipes communicating with the 
mains in the street. In this form Mr Jones is not only in a 
position to discharge a food of water into each separate room, 
but from the peculiar shape of the rose, he is enabled (with 
a pressure of 200 feet acting upon the apertures) to disperse 
+t to a distance of upwards of 40 feet in very direction. This 
ig a certain and effectual method for extinguishing fire, and 
‘might easily be adopted in almost any important structure in 
large towns, where a supply of water and the necessary pres- 
sure can be obtained. Another important feature of this ap- 
plication is the facility and rapidity with which fires can be 
extinguished. The cocks are all on the outside of the build- 
ing, and being carefully locked up and marked with numbers 
corresponding with the different rooms, there is less risk of 
delay and confusion when an accident occurs. 
Fourthly, In a range of stores, the different warehouses 
to be divided by strong partition walls, and no more openings 
to be made than are absolutely necessary for the admission 
of goods and light. 
These precautions become more apparent in every case 
where large piles of buildings are erected contiguous to each 
other, and where risk from fire is incurred in the communi- 
cation of one part of the building with another. The Metro- 
politan Building Act has provided against accidents of this 
kind, by the insertion of a clause wherein these precautions 
are insisted upon, and by the introduction of partition walls, 
