The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-28
GALA TIME AT DETROIT.
Chief Fireman Puder's Impressions of
the Centennial and City.


Chief Fire Engineer w. B. Puder, who
attended the eighteenth annual convention
of the National Association of Fire
Engineers at Detroit last week, is very en-
thusiastic over the courtesies extended by
the city of Detroit. Mr.. Puder says there
were about 400 fire engineers present. COM
ing from all parts of the country, from
Maine TO California and from Georgia TO the
northern lake region. Georgia was repre-
sented by the chief fire engineers OF Sa-
vannah, Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, Column
bus and Rome. The convention, which as
senbled on Tuesday Of last week, adjourned
on Friday to meet at Springfield, Mass. the
second Tuesday in August, 1891. The cities
aspiring for the convention were Column
bus. Ga, Montgomery, Ala, and Spring
field, Mass.
The visitors were welcomed on Tuesday
morning by an address by the chairman of
the Detroit city council in the absence of
the mayor from the city. Referring to the
attention received by the city authori ties
Mr. Puder says that on Tuesday afternoon
boat ride was gwen them on the steamer
Greyhound down the Detroit river to Lake
st. Clair, around Belle Isle park, returning
on the Canada side.
"WEDNESDAY was devoted to carriage
riding to Belle Isle park and interesting
points in the city. MIR. Puder says there
were over 100 carriages In line. Mr.. Battle
chief engineer Of the Detroit fire depart
mant, was the chaperou. The carriages
started out at $3.50 a. m. and did not return
to the hotels until o'clock in the evening
An hour was spent in the house of correc /;
ton, where, Mr. Puder says, men, women
and children confined there are
engaged in the manufacture Of chairs. The
Penlnsular Stove works were next visited,
where lunch was served. and each visitor
was presented with nickel-plated stove
litter as souvenir of the visit. The large
tobacco factory OF Daniel Scotch was Wis
tied. The works cover several acres of
ground, and the main building is six stories
high. Nine hundred men are employed in
the factory. The visitors were dined at
Belle Isle before the return to Detroit.
On Thursday forenoon a carriage ride
was given the ladies who were In the visit
ing party, and in the afternoon another
carriage ride was given the chief fire engi-
neers.
On'Friday a boat ride was given the viz
itors on the steamer City of Detroit 10 the
Oakland" on Star Island 1t was a de-
llghtful trip Of sixty miles through Lake
ST Clair The guests were handsomely
entertained, royal spread was served, and
the finest wines and Havanas followed the
dinner. The last session Of the convention
was held on board the boat.
Referring to the work Of the convention,
Mr.. Puder says that while the above would
indicate that the time was largely devoted
to pleasure, the contrary is true, and he
says much valuable information was OBJ
tanned by him from the discussions and
lnterchanges of opinions in the convention.
and by the exhibits of flremen's apparatus
He says the Wednesday night session lasted
until II o'clock, and the following night
the convention was in session nearly all
night, as we'll as the forenoon session of
Thursday forenoon.
The principal subjects discussed were
nues and hre-hearths, and the danger of
electric light wires. A resolution was
passed urging legislation that will compel
buildings 20 be constructed with a dead
wall between them, so that buildings will
not destroy each other, but burn out in
dividually, and thus reduce the fire risk,
The trial Of apparatus and examination
of exhibits on Thursday forenoon. Mr..
Puder says, was well worth the trim to
Detroit Among the displays was that of
the Lake Huron aerial ladder, eighty feet
in length, the truck being operated bv
hydraulic power. The display Of fire
engines and apparatus and fre-escapes, he
says was very fine. A two-inch stream of
water was thrown a distance of 175 feet.
The display and exhibition we're made In a
driving rain, but it did not interrupt them.
Among the exhibitions, Mr.. Puder saws.
that OF resplrators or smoke protectors was
something new and valuable to him. One
OF the exhibits was that Of hooded respira-
tors. -Four men encased in rubber clothes
entered stable where a bale of hay had
Teen fired, and in the dense smoke were
supplied with air pumped into small hose
connected with the reSpirators, two men
outside pumping the air into the hose. But
by far the most simple smoke protector. and
an effective one, Mr.. Puder says. was that
invented by Capt. Allen of the Louisville
KY, fire department, the workings of which
were practically exhibited by Chief Allen of
Louisville, KY, and Eve men. The smoke
was allowed TO become quite dense, and the
apartment being air tight the heat was in
tense. Chief Allen and his men remained
In the room twelve minutes and we're called
out. having staid two minutes over the time
required for the test. The respirator ia
simply sponge worn over the face 10
which 1t Is attached by an elastic band
The sponge is saturated with a fluid which
Is the invention Of Capt Allen. Mr.. Pnder
says he put one Of the sponges on and re-
NAMED ~ the stable five minutes. Mr.
Fuder says he will recommend 30 the fire.
committee OF council TO purchase some Of
the iiuid for the Savannah fire department.
Inc cost, be says, is 81 per gallon.
Mr. fnder says ho observed "a simple de-
Vioe which obvlates the use II ''spider.H for
swinging harness, the spiders ing danger.
9ls and liable ~ give way at auy time. Mr.
fhler says DO viii make a model OF H.
substitute Tor tho spider, aud provide each
engine house eifh the new device. lie avs
tNat many valuable suggestions were notsd
-, I'm, aua % TANKS that every town aud
city having a Gro department sbould -
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