214 SUGGESTIONS FOR REDUCING THE IvOSS BY FIRE ON VESSEI/S. 



Water. 



Steam. 



Stroke. 



Gals. 



Enginb Room: — 



I duplex pump 



1 Ahren fire engine duplex . 



2 Dean pumps 



3 feed pumps 



7J 

 6 

 6 

 6 



12 

 lO 



6 



lO 



12 



8 

 8 



12 



Forecastle Deck: — 



I hand deck and fire pump, 5x5 



Fantah, — Main Deck: — 



I hand deck and fire pump, 5x5. 



600 



1200 



180 



390 



2370 



50 



SO 

 2470 



16 hose connections on Main Deck with 750 feet of hose. 



6 hose connections on Main Cabin Deck with 300 feet of hose. 



6 hose connections inside Main Cabin with 300 feet of hose. 



13 hose connections on Promenade Deck with 650 feet of hose. 



6 hose connections inside Cabin Upper Deckwith 300 feet of hose . 



4 hose connections on Boat Deck with 200 feet of hose. 



Total number of feet of i J- hose 2500 



Two 2^-mch Hose Connections on Main Deck with 200 feet of 2 J-inch hose 

 with Siamese connection to 150 feet of 35-inch hose. 



We also carry in the galley a number of small paper bags, hung to hooks on the 

 partitions, containing sand, mixed with a little starch to keep it from caking, for 

 use in case grease boils over and takes fire. 



The real advantage of a portable hand pump over a chemical fire extinguisher 

 is this, that in the event of your chemical working, after you have discharged its 

 contents it is then useless until it has been recharged, which under the most favorable 

 circumstances, requires some time. On the other hand the portable hand pump 

 can be filled while it is being operated, by a man carrying water to it in a bucket so 

 that the stream from it may be kept constantly working. These pumps should be 

 equipped with extra long hose so that the pump may always remain on the floor, 

 and if necessary for a man to stand on a ladder, chair or box, he will have sufiicient 

 hose to reach. The Alabama is equipped with twenty-four of these portable hand 

 pumps, distributed in easily accessible locations. 



President Tayi^or (Communicated) : — Supplementing my remarks in the dis- 

 cussion of this paper I now add the statistics to which I referred. It is to be noted 

 that previous to 1908, no record was kept of the hves lost at fires in the city of New 

 York. 



