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Show A Countryman's bnggestlon. A countryman who boarded the firs' boat New Yorker at her berth at tht Battery the other day was interested to observe the completeness of her equipment equip-ment for fighting fire along the rive? front. Her powerful pumps and ingenious ingen-ious arrangements for directing thf streams upon burning buildings or into the holds of vessels filled him with admiration. ad-miration. Then he asked the engineer tx show him the workings of the searchlight search-light He took it for granted that thei was one and was amazed to learn that there was no electrical plant at all CD the boat This would appear to be a on rious deficiency in a boat otherwise perfectly per-fectly appointed, and it is difficult to gee how so obvious a need could havt been overlooked in the building of the New Yorker. The countryman's discovery discov-ery has led to a discussion of the need of a searchlight and may lead to its introduction in-troduction on the boat It is admitted that such a light would bo of the greatest great-est value to the New Yorker in finding Its way at night about among the crowded and tangled slips. It would, moreover, make it possible to direct a powerful light upon the fronts of warehouses, ware-houses, to the very great assistance of th fireiiicn. Electric lights on the boal would also be supplied in place of th old fashioned oil lamps that are now is |
