The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-17
EXHIBITION OF "KILFYRE.'
lazing Piles of Combustibles Effectual-
ly Extinguished Yesterday.

Blazing Piles of Combustibles Effectual-
ly distinguished Yesterday.
Three splendid and entirely successful
exhibitions of ''Kilfyre." a dry powder
compound fire extinguisher, were given
in this city yesterday afternoon. They
We're witnessed by the fire commission
ers, Superintendent Fancher and many
other prominent citizens. All present
We're very much impressed and agreed
that the eXtinguisher was far superior
to any that they had ever seen demon
strated. ''Kilfyre" is primarily in
tended for incipient blazes but can be
utilized for larger fires. This was DEM
onstrated by one of the exhibitions yes
terday. A large frame structure 10 feet
high, feet wide and IL feet long with
elevator shaft 8 feet square and 35
feet high was lined with 500 feet of fire
hose filed with excelsior shavngs, COW
cred with pine tar and kerosene oil and
set on fire. The extinguisher was APP
piled and the flames practically put
men used to fighting fires he would be
able to wholly extinguish a fire of the
same proportions with the "kilfyre."
This structure, it should be remembered,
was SO large and OF such a nature that
it is beyond the scope of hand extin-
guisher Two other structures feet
long, Is inches high and 2 feet wide,
and II feet high, 6 feet wide and 8 feet
deep were filled with strips of furrin,
saturated with pine tar and kerosene
oil and set on fire. After getting under
good Roadway the dry powder conf
pound was thrown from the tube in
which it comes and the flames were i'm
medately eXtinguished. 'I<ilfyre"
comes in tin tubes about twenty-five
inches long and two inches in diameter
Only about half of the contents of one
of these tubes were used to eXtinguish
the fire in the last structure, The pow
der Is absolutely harmless to the clothes,
the person or furniture of any kind, but
it is death to fire
President Ames of the board of fire
in speaking of the exhibit
ton and the extinguishing qualities of
"kilfyre" last evening said II think
that it is an excellent thing. Previous
failures to my mind count for naught,
as they We're certainly not fires to be
put out by any hand fire extinguisher.
''Klfyre' is the best fire extnguisher
80 1t, A.
tests we had at the factory (Candee
Rubber company it was the only thing
that would put the fire out"
Superintendent Fancher also praised
'Kilfyre'' highly and stated that he
thought it to be the best extinguisher
Of incipient fires yet produced
The manager of the company, George
H. Carpenter, said that the test on Fri
lay could not exactly be called fair
one, as the stuff is only intended for
ncipent fires. Just prior to the exhibit
Mr.. Carpenter, general manager of the
Fire Appliance company, adj
dressed the assemblage and said that
'kilfyre" was fire extinguisher in
Tended for fires in an incipient state in
house, store, factory, etc. That 1t was
not new OF experimental, t1at 1t had
been on the market three years, that it
1ad been adopted by the New York fire
department., by telegraph telephone
md steamship companies and by many
IF the largest factories, stores, etc
That he had erected for to-day's ex-
1ibit three structures varying In size.
Ehat there was no question about the
ability of ''Kilfyre" putting out the two
smaller ones, which would demonstrate
is use and efficiency. The large struct-
Ire was one beyond the scope of any or
iinary fire, still at the same time Its ex-
would be attempted The |
ides of the building on the inside had
,een lined with old rubber fire hose and |
he floor covered with coils of it, ag-
500 feet in all-the whole then |
covered with excelsior and shavings and |
aturated with pine tar and kerosene oil |
bringing it under the scope !
If conhagration rather than fire |
which hand extinguisher is intended to |
,e used for.