New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-14

the same appliances for savng life and suppressng fire.
four inch pumps. from 200 to sI feet OF hose 20
tenton Of the Company TO add TO this line tho Delaware
which has just been completed This vessel IS peneyed
with every improvement and convenience possible 70 be
obeined She will be heated by new plan; each caoln
are mounted by satuctes uphoding the gas
lights Among other noticeable things there are spoons
which therare CO., are separated by patent device by
which smaH shelf can be formed at the hand OF each
thermoneters are placed outside the cabins In fact
everything has ieen done to make this model boat and
hose. two cboats and 200 cork jackets The Delaware
will be opened to svors in day or two, aud will com
mence running In aboSt two weeks.
The Desbrosses-st Very to Jersey city has now the
Newark the ID 8: GregNFy ana the John ,. DAISY me
has fourinch pump 200 feet Of hose 20 buckets, two
boats, and 100 corkjackeS The latter as III the case
pany are stated to be kept II boxes the apperdeck
From the foot Of ChristopNsrst to Hoboken, the Pat
are running The Paterson was built IN 1885, ana the
Watt 1851 The Livingston b. old, snail and dirty:
feet Of hoe buckets Of aet aud one
OF wood and 100 corkackets. The Livingston has the
ON the Ferry from Tie loot of Fortysecpnd
St. but one boat old dirty affair is runnng or rather
repumps and hose is stated to fulfill the requirements
of law.
ferryb running from New York is adequately pro
yded with lifesaymg aPpars in case of necessity
two kinds of fepreservers most generally in the
best is the cork Jacket this consists of eight blocks OF
about 10 inches long by in width and in thick
these connected by band which Is designed
pass around the body under the arms 1t seems as
though this device might be improved by having but four
blocks to each preseryer that would be enough TO sus
tain any In the water and boats could then carry
twice as many OF the Jackets The febuOys and floats
cynirOids of about five feet in length and 10 inches
In diameter four cords along the sides from end TO
end and by these cords is believed that nine ten per-
be supported The continuance may be good
enough in warm weather, but would certainly be dis
astrous il put to test in the Winter for itwOud be
impossible for a person to hold than
few minutes amid broken ice and with the Their
monleter at zero The arrangements for the dis
trbutiOn Of life-preseryers in an emergency are
regulated by the will of the officials in every instance
on boats, indicated, they are where passengers
help themselves and others they are Kept out OF
sight sometimes in locked boxes The boats carried are
usually small and would not hold more than 10 lDdi'
viduals The pumps generally ample to fuhl the
purpose designed, and worked by dOnkey-engnes;
the hose attach TO these pumps is chiefly OF leather
and good I'm quality As rule the boats on the East
River are much comfortable safe and pleasant than
those on the North River The latter larger and more
capaclous but Also with few exceptions, drtier and
have an unpleasant shaking, and seem ricketty when
ruder motion 1t tobe hoped that the appliances Tor
the saving of human life kept on board OF our ferry
boats will he greatly improved and multiplied long before
some caantOus experience shall have shown their IN
adequacy to the desired end.