Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-08-11

space of time,-for in these contests az in boor
and ladder races and hose laying contests. a sec
ond or two may mark the difference between vic.
tory and defeat
Inc arst aid tournament is going to have
some very realistic features For one thing there
VIII be provided make believe" coal mine.
open at one side to the view of the spectators
and In this will occur signal an explosion lust
IKE That which occurs in a real mine except that
there will be no actual loss of life However.
men will be apparently injured by the shock and
overcome by the fumes and will fall in supposedly
perilous positions from which they will be res
cued by first aid men working in double ouick
time Just as they would do under the stress of
a genuine disaster. These rescue workers viii
be called upon to improvise stretchers from their
jackets and nine drills; to hurriedly bring to the
scene mine hospital cars; and do the other things
they would do in time OF serious trouble OF
course, all their operations win have to be carried
on by means of what illumination can be gained
from the Few pattern of electric safety lamps for
1t is OFT Of the question to carry into mine
ailed with explosive gases any ordinary lantern
or lamp with an exposed flame of any kind
Easily one of the most interesting phases of the
contests will be the competitions involving the
use of the oxygen helmets so called A helmet
OF this kind, which may cost as much as 5000
may be described an alright armorlike COW
ering for the head and shoulders which enables
rescue worker to penetrate into mines filed
with noxious fumes just drivers suit enebles
its wearer to live and work under water The
alright helmet not only excludes the deadly gas
es of the mine but it supplies its wearer with
necessary flow of lifegiving oxygen, drawn as
needed from metal cylinders of compressed oxy-
gen worn the back, like a knapsack. The CON-
petitions at Pittsburg will include tests as to how
long nan can work effectually in such suit
of armor and tests TO the ability OF the respeo.
tive wearers of the helmets 20 detach empty oxy-
gen cylinders from their backs and replace them
with fresh cylinders This Is highly important
because in mine rescue work it may happen that
there is no second rescue worker at hand to as
sist in changing cylinders and unless FIRST aid"
man do this for himself he must leave his
work and hurry back to the mouth of the mine
for fresh air
Another form of apparatus, and it is new one.
which will be demonstrated is the Pumoter. The
Pulmoter is German invention, and for all that
it would almost fit into ordinary suit case,
1t is so delicate and remarkable in its mechanism
that 1t costs $780, The Pulmoter Is, IN effect an
automatic breathing machine It will compel an
unconscious man to breath whether he wants to
or not and 1t mechanically draws poisonous gases
out of the lungs with one operation and forces in
the giving oxygen with the other. That it is
capable of well nigh performing miracles may be
appreciated when 1t is explained that with this
agent for mechanical resusctation the experts
of the U. s. Government have brought back to
life, miners who had remained unconscious in
mines for 26 hours and who had been abandoned
dead