Show FIREPROOF FIRE PROOF CORDAGE to a commercial city likener like ilke new york the discovery of any arty process which by improving machi nery makes life lice more secure and the transportation of merchandise less hazardous must be regarded with interest and not riot only this but be adopted the instant its merits shall be made apparent such a discovery has been made we think by professor J H johnson now in this city en route for europe professor johnson now offers to the test of the commercial interests of the world specimens of cordage and wood which are incombustible not only utterly impervious to any and all degrees of heat for any length of time but cordage and wood word whose structure will wil I 1 remain firm as long as the iran iron that emer sinto ginto the composition of ships and aud fireproof fire proof safes the terrible wrecks of the ley le lek ington the atlantic the griffith and the thousand other accident accidents s where valuable lives have been wasted from inefficient because perishable steering apparatus and the untold losses of papers from fire when their possessors depend upon sari safi safes saries cs admonish every one ono of the value and the interest felt in tile the success of such a discovery discovers as the one now challenging the closest scrutiny measures have been taken to secure the bene hene benefits fits of this invention to its author and we shall attempt to give some soine idea of the process we may briefly say arfat tile the vegetable matter whether of wood hemp or cotton is first submitted to a process which has tiie the same effect upon it as is produced upon wood in a charcoal pit by covering it from the atmosphere while burning this process of abstract ing fro from m vegetable fabre fibre the element producing combustion so freely is very simple and cheap but the inventor does docs not stop with simply reducing the elements for combustion but by another and equally beautiful process charges the fabre fibre with elements that are utterly opposed to combustion a substance as impenetrable to fire as iron and at an expense which will allow its application as well to the coarsest cotton bagging as to the wheel rope upon which so often depend a thousand lives no one who has witnessed the ravages of fire can examine the material and not feel that a remedy has been found which if it cannot place us in complete control of fire will enable us to check its course when by fastening upon the dresses of our families and the cordage of our ships it may rob us of all we hold dear by this process every fathom of cordage curd and every yard of fabric from our looms can be made fireproof fire proof at a cost so trifling as to be almost below computation As a substitute for iron rudder chains which anc arc so inconvenient and which steamboats refuse to adopt this is til lil ill that could be wished and must for that purpose be universally used upon wood for safes its effects are arc almost fabulous and he the fact will hardly be credited that a small turned box filled with apers capers i stood the tiie test of seven hours fire in a safe the iron of which was either melted or burnid d out leaving 6 the wood as bright za ind the papers as clean as when hey they came from the turners and ile ilc he fie printers hands N Y mori ug tig express |