The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-08

New YORK, Oct. Z, 1870. I
Croton aud Chemistry.
Yesterday afternoon an experiment was tried
vhich proves that the old way of putting out
fires is the beet. The experiment consisted in
applying chemicals, by means OF fire engines,
to the extinguishing of fire. Iu order to fairly
apply the test, two buildings each two stories
high and twenty-five by fIrty feet, had been
built OF old and dry pine wood. They had also
been soaked with tar aud gasoline, and packed
with two hundred empty tar barrels. among
which were distributed six barrels of rosin.
The chem ca engine by means of which the
building which was first fired was to have its
flames put out, consisted Of two large up
right cylinders, with valves and sieves below.
and hoppers on top. Water was pumped
into the valves, where it passed through sulphate
of soda. The water, thus impregnated, was
thrown 10y the engine in three streams At
fifteen minutes to o'clock one of the buildings
(Which were erected at the intersection of Sixty
seventh street and Third avcnue) was fred. In
ten minutes the flames were so intense that the
crowd which had collected to witness the eXpe-
riment was driven back by them to the opposite
side of Third avenue. At twelve minutes to
the chemical engine began to play upon the
flames in three streams In eleven minutes the
fire was eXtinguished, the only thing left to
regret beiug that some fremen who had gone
among the ruins too soon buried beneath
some falling timber, and were seriously though
not fatally hurt. At eighteen minutes past
the other building was fired: at twenty minutes
three streams of pure water were turned upon
the flames and at twenty-eght minutes past
the fce entirely out Croton therefore
gained tie victory over chemistry by three
minutes, and the Metropolitan Fire Department
of New York esjoyed triumph over the
nited States Chemical Fire Engine Company
of Chicago.
Nettn and her Tronbies.
rom time to time l have mentioned the
oung woman who has lately DONE said and
written so much to inspire New York sales
w)men with sense of their wrongs, and who
prefers 10 remain known to the public as Miss
n 9tta She is a sort of Joan of Arc, prophet
p'iestess to the oppressed daughters of trade,
AID has worked extremely hard to have rene
died some of the wrongs from which she and
her sisters suffer. | do not pretend to know all
the errors she may have fallen into, any more
than l know all the virtues which she has ex-
hibtedin behalfo her cause. Sne appears to have
wrought faithfully and courageously, and from
whatl have personally seen aud heard of her
can bear witness that her spirit and intelligence
are in marked and pleasing contrast to the apa-
thy, stupidity, and frvolity of many of the
girls and women whose condition she has tried
and believe, is still trying to better. As
Vice-Plesident of the Saleswomen's Early Clos
ing Association, she has been punctually at her
posi- at PiSmpton Hall every Thursday evening,
and has made good use of all the simple elo-
quence that is innate in wrongs endured by the
helpless at the hands of mean and stony hearted
men, AT the meeting last evening, however
(Which Miss Meta was, by sickness, prevented
attending the president, Mr.. Wittenbeecher,
made statement which, to say the least, was
very unexpected. That statement was that the
saleswomen's cause was damaged by the fact
that Meta refused to give up the money which
had been collected in their behalf. He init
mated that on the one hand, Meta refused to
yield any of the money until one thousand dol
lars had been collected, and that, on the other
hand the pubic naturally denied its assistance
until every penny of the money hitherto contri-
buted bad been satisfactorily accounted for.
This little speech at any rate gave point to the
action afterwards taken, by which it was
decided that all moneys collected
hereafter by members for the association should
be handed to the treasurer, Mr. Haugh ton.
What truth there may be in the allegations
against Netta don't know: but whether they
be wholly true or wholly false, or partially both
they of interest affecting an association
whose object must find sympathy in all philan-
thropic people everywhere, and in all women
and girls who work in stores and who feel how
much better their condition might be made.
During the approaching winter it is probable
that at lea one Of the prominent officers of the
association will give a series of entertainments
the object Of which will be to draw saleswomen
together, aud to foster that mutualty of feeling
which will lead them to work heartily together
IN the endeayor 10 promote the interests of the
assUchtl,H.
Ftz-Hugh Ludlow
Fitz-liugh Ludlow, who died on the 18th of
IA Sepr, m1er in Geneva, was representa-
tive of the better order of New York newspaper
men. He did not always lead polite or a
prudent life, but he led life which sometimes
/. betrayed weaknesses that are more lovable and
more akin to nobility of disposition than pru-
dence and policy are. His career was very far
from being useless when one reflects that he
used the knowledge of his own errors-a know
/ ledge that was gained through great bitterness
in repairing the errors of other people. He
/ possessed one quality which, for a man who had
associated much with newspaper r men, was very
remarkable indeed. That quality was his spi-
rtuality, by virtue of which a sense of futurity
was always present with him, lending serene
and limpid glow to the tenor of his daily life
and giving serious meaning to his habitual
acts. | say that this quality was a remarkable
o TO be possessed by man who had mingled
Jas largely with the newspaper-world as Ftz-
4 Hugh Ludlow had: not because journalists are,
1 necessarily, less spiritual minded as set than
other classes of men are, but because, as a rule
they more Of the evil side of life than
people in la0st other profe essions do, and be-
cause the tendency OF such knowledge is to