The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-22

was used, and she pumped water from
both her gates into the standpipe. The
pumping capacity of this engine is 1000
| gallons a minute. She can develop a
water pressure of 300 pounds. When
! this particular test was over, the
guages showed that, with 1876 pounds
of steam, the engine had sent water
1 to the roof at a pressure, at first of AZ
pounds, which was rapidly increased to
800 pounds.
After the trial with the big engine,
the other one tackled the roof pipes
and, with 142 pounds of steam, de-
veloped a water pressure on the roof Of
300 pounds.
After the roof test, came the grand
finale, when both engines were used to
force the water through the standpipes
to the nine top floors of the building. A
line of hose was connected and run to
window on each floor, from the ninth
up. Then the signal was given and, in
less than three minutes, nine powerful
streams We're playing from the building
at once. Passengers in passing surface
cars took it for granted that the Flat
iron was afire and concluded to get off
and see the show. None of those who
got off the cars, including many wo-
men, seemed to appreciate that some
thing like 1900 gallons of water a min
ute was dropping Town into Broadway
and Fifth avenue and the result was
damage to a considerable quantity of
Sunday finery.
There were three persons in particu-
lar who had good reason to know that
something was leaking. One of the
three was the switchman stationed at
the junction of the tracks of the Lex
fngton avenue surface line with those
of the Broadway line. Not long after
the tests began he raised the big sta
tionary umbrella which he has to pro-
tect him from stress of weather. But
the wind carried the spray under the
rim and so the man fished out rubber
coat and got into it. Later, he donned
a rubber hat and then twiddled his
fingers at the crowd and the firemen.
When the tests were over and the
switchman was standing around wait
ing for his coat and hat to stop drip
ping, somebody asked him what he
thought of the show.
"Oi think it's damned nonsense, so OF
do If it's shprinklin' the strates frum
the roofs they're thryin', why the divil
don't they go down be the wather
fronts where they're used to wet?''.
The other two who had their personal
appearance DANCED by the water were
two gorgeously arrayed young men
who were driving up Broadway In a
runabout. For some reason or other
they didn't see what was going on I'M
til they had driven into the spray.
Suddenly, the driver seemed to get g.
realizing sense of the figure he and his
companion were cutting and he turned
the horse west into Twenty-second
street. Hardly had the animal been
turned into the side street when the
man ran into the water from a stream
on one of the lower floors. Neither
man could have been wetter had he
jumped into the river, but just to show
that he didn't mind 1t at all, the driver
looked up to the men holding the pipe
and shouted:
81 say, old chap, wabble it a bit, will
you?"
One of those who saw the tests was
former Chief Shea. When they were
over, Mr.. Shea said:
That was great work. 1t couldn't
have been done in my day, without a
lot of lines bursting and the devil in
general to pay. These standpipes are
great things. New York Sun. s .-..-.