The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1853-01-08

third stor room BY the Court House, (heIl
show YOU how it is done if you call upon him
for he is cry courteous to visitors,) can, BY
pressing ne proper knob or key, make these
heavy bel hammers strike anv number he
chooses And he made them strike the num-
Der OF you ward.
But how happened the engines and fremen
to come sraight to my house? There are
two or thre thousand houses in the ward.
The for'nen ofevery fire company has a
key to thos useful little iron boxes. and So
when he ha' got to the ward signiGed bv the
bells, he RUS to the nearest box, and sends
private slsml to the man in Court Square,
asking 'Just rhere is Me fye7" and then he
listens while he answer comes back in little
taps, one, t,oo three, four. &C., until he learns
the number c the very box you opened when
YOU gave the alarm in the first place Every
box has its own number. The bells toledtb
fireman what ward, and the telegraph taps
whispered whit station box the alarm came
! from.
see. But it worth all this tronb.e of
wires and machinery and boxes and bate.
ries?
Yes, indeed. Five minutes at the begin
ming of fire ar very precious. But often
times, so rapid is this system, an alarm will
be given, bells ing, boxes consulted, fire
found, hose proclred and screwed to a Co.
chituate fire plug and the fire extinguished.
ere the family in anger are well awake
Many time, the irst thing a man knows of
his danger BY fire, that his room is flooded
with water
But this municipal telegraph is used for
more purposes than one In case of riot. the
police captain can s.nd for help to head quar-
tiers. 10 catch an ascending thief hv setting
guard at every railr nd and steamboat can
be done in five min7tcs. Then. too. very
soon all the city clock will be hitched to.cth.
er by these wires, and all of them 90 hv one
central pendulum. acc c'1ratclv. five hundred
clocks alike to sccon.,
TO it. Boston, We hall soon hear of new
er notions still. The r'xt move will he to
Introduce into every frs, class house city time
as we'll as city water and gas. Teicrraphc
time wires will be introdIred Just as now the
water pipes and gas fixtures are. What a
millennium of punctualitv! Twenty thousand
clocks ticking together, Yes, and next we
shall hear of a refinement of the fire system
Philips fire annihilators WI he built into the
walls. their nozzles Just pcc,ne ont into the
room. Convenient wires wi1 be arranr.J so
that man walked at midnight bv smell Of
fire or a red light in his room. will ONLY need
to reach out his arm to the fr. knob. and null
1t 'slx times slowl v" and instantly that wake
tul. watchfiI. handy man on Court Sunare
will touch his wires, not to friehten sleep from
all the city with his dinging bills. but quiet
ly he'll touch the wire. and smash 90 the acid
bottles in the amhu.hed annihlators: phiz.
Squlz. filsh-sh-sh, ruShcs ont thc humid fire.
destroying life-prcScrving vapor. The I'M
seasonable fire surrenders and goes ont Hut
long ere this, the solid man has rolled him
self back into bed again, tucked The hIankct
snug about his chin and fallen asl, 60. bIessno
the best, the rery hest, the Boston Nv of nut
ting out fires,-lnIependent.