New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-07

Ere applied in sufficient quantity but 1t Is often
asked II its general for that purpose would not be
attended with great danger to human me- In reply 70
this question desire to say that person can live
length OF time in room filed with this gas, and there
fore there Is DANGER but If used with ordinary
There Is danger too, IN the use Of illuminating gas
Many life is lost annually by this agens Of ght. Still,
nobody thinks Of dispensing with it On that account
Many life too is lost annually by our railroads and still
the ponderous horse flies the spot where
the night before have been slaughtered unconscious
1t goes. We take passage board Of steamboat and
feel safe she plows her way through tho mighty
waters but in a moment the boiler may send us all
beneath the umbng seas. and yet, who would do away
with the steambOeri SO 1t is with every other agent OF
good, but st use them servants though they
may send few OF us untimely over the stream.
The recent exhibitions at the Battery however, have
shown that this gas Is not very fghul monster after
all Immediately after the fires had been eXtlnguished,
quite a number OF persons went into the without
experiencing the least sensation OF injury, note
ing any change In the atmosphere Indeed rapid does
do Its work that person eau remain In IL long enough
FOR the IRE to be eXtnguished and escape unlurt We
feel certain that II this gas was generally used in extn-
ston, ninety per cent at least or life now baked and
burned to death by fire would be saved You would
no such htfu scene rs that OF yesterday IN the city OF
Brooklyn. whole family leaping forty feet down upon
the solid pavements from burning building" death be-
hind them and death as certain before them husband
and killed and the mother fatally injured. Nor
scene like that Lbertyst.s short time ago, when
another whole family lost their lives face OF your
boosted steam reengnes. In both these cases the fire
ndu cut OH every avenue escape luo bl-
gnes came but too late and the wretched victims
must either be burned up by the fire or leap from the
windows in certain death. Now suppose this eUer
ready extgusher had been the door, aud every
in the whole building had been fire, every
person therein would have been saved as all the rooms
in minute or two could have been filed with gas, and
the fire entirely extinguished-even those which
the occupants shut from escape for the gas could
dOthem injury, while IN the open windows they could
breathe the pure air from the outside In instance
this gas do any HARM except where people asleep
In room and who pray Is asleep in room on fire. ex
cept It be their last sleep and who would think Of filling
a with without first awakng all but the deadf
The smoke OF fire is fatal as the gas and, indeed is
scarceyanytaing else-and who would perish In would
likely perish IN the other. City authorities, would
to you that this Is no new enemy to alarm you
You breathing it at every breath-much than Is
generally supposed. especially II yOu live m city Ike
Pittsburgh PENN whose furnaces send OF It's ues
than 1000 tuns every day. 10 fall by its specific gray
ity, the inhabitants around ana still they live and
breathe, and are happy Nobody hurt Two thousand
tuns; tits rlghtful. Now 10 eXtinguish ordinary fire
only few pounds neceSsaryprObaby less tLan five
pounds and city authorities TO be alarmed at five
pOuudl No! There danger in the Of this gas
ageut In eItinguisbug fires and nobody fears It
except few who are engaged In other kinds Of tre-eX
tinguishcrs. They may well be alarmed, for the right
method has nj last been reached. Il. LAPHAM.
ADN