CHAPTER XXX. 



ARTICLES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE AND 

 PROPERTY. 



Fire escape rope. Package envelopes. Fruit package envelope. Improved fruit package 

 envelope. Portable boats and pontoons. Portable boat. Portable folding boats. Portable 

 life-boats. Self-inflating portable life-boats. Tubular portable life-boat. Folding frame boat. 

 Box-boat. Batteaux and canoes. Matress boat. Self inflating pontoons. Self inflating pontoon 

 raft. Self inflating wagon floats. Self inflating balsors and life spars. Life buoys. 



Most articles made from these fabrics may come under this 

 head, as in some way tending to this object,* but reference is 

 here made to such as are designed for the preservation of life 

 and property in a manner different from those described in the 

 preceding chapters ; viz., such as are used by individuals. 

 Those here treated of are such as may be used for the pre- 

 servation of the lives of numbers, and for the protection and 

 preservation of provisions and property in commercial transit. 

 All these, together with the others alluded to, are deemed 

 worthy the notice of those who risk, and also of those who 

 insure, property for transportation by sea, and equally so of 

 those who risk or insure lives on the water ; as well as of 

 the philanthropist who feels an interest in the progress of im- 

 provements, whether he has any pecuniary interest in them or 

 not. 



The preservation of life and valuable property on the water, 

 is not now so difficult to accomplish as has heretofore been sup- 

 posed, nor can a correct idea be formed, from the present prices 

 of articles of this sort now in the market, at how cheap a rate 



Under the above head may very properly be included almost the whole class of articles de- 

 scribed Chapter , Medical and Surgical. Some of these are too seldom wanted by any one 

 individual, to warrant the expense of being provided with them all. It may be hoped that the 

 e.Tpense of these will in future be so reduced that hospitals at least, and that families may in gen- 

 eral have them. 



