. The Street railway journal . INTERIOR OF SECOND CAR AFTER FIRE. FIRE STARTEDUNDER FLOOR of seats were piled on the tire after it was started. The secondfire gained good headway and the flames burned through theupper deck and mounted to the roof of the building before thesprinklers opened. Souk- idea can lie gained of the heat fromthe fact that glass in the w indows melted and incandescentlamps were twisted all out of shape. In the first trial the in-terior of the car had been badly damaged, while in the secondit was completely ruined. For a few seconds it looked as STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [V
. The Street railway journal . INTERIOR OF SECOND CAR AFTER FIRE. FIRE STARTEDUNDER FLOOR of seats were piled on the tire after it was started. The secondfire gained good headway and the flames burned through theupper deck and mounted to the roof of the building before thesprinklers opened. Souk- idea can lie gained of the heat fromthe fact that glass in the w indows melted and incandescentlamps were twisted all out of shape. In the first trial the in-terior of the car had been badly damaged, while in the secondit was completely ruined. For a few seconds it looked as STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIV. No. September io, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 369 though the second experiment was a failure and the buildingdoomed to destruction, but within about four minutes after thefirst sprinkler opened, the fire was out. The roof of the build-ing was burned slightly, but the roof sprinklers took care ofthis fire. The remarkable feature of the tests was the fact thatin neither case were the cars on the adjoining tracks injuredin the least, beyond a little scorching of paint, and not a win-dow in these cars was broken. In both cases the experimentswere made with ordinary city pressure, which varied between20 lbs. and 25 lbs. After the second fire was extinguished, atthe suggestion of President Andrews, the steamers were con-nected on the pipes, bringing the pressure up to about 50 was then that the full efficiency of the system was seen, asthe water came down in a solid mass that would have delugedany fire, no matter how severe. This illustrated the pressurethat could be obtained by means
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