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combustible ornaments, and the flames quickly communicated to 

 the canvas and board ceiling of the roof. The roof was so high, 

 that there were no means of reaching the fire by ladders, or oth- 

 erwise, and one of your hydropults being on exhibition, it occur- 

 red to one of the floor clerks of the exhibition to bring it into use. 



With a single pail of water, and this little instrument, the fire 

 was almost instantly extinguished. It was the general impres- 

 sion that three or four minutes' delay would have resulted in the 

 certain destruction of the building, and all present concurred in 

 the opinion — or rather in the certain conviction — that the Hydro- 

 pult saved the Institute from a similar calamity which, on the 

 same day of the month, two years before, laid the Crystal Palace 

 in ashes. 



Price $12. American Hydropult Company, 151 Nassau street, 

 New York. 



