Show Dry Sand to Put Out Oil Fires It is well known that dry sand is one of the best things that can be used for killing kill-ing incipient oil fire and some factories where oil Is used have been equipped with L nails of this material in various depart C i p r ments It is now suggested that many dwelling house fires caused by lamp explosions ex-plosions might be averted by keeping some I of the ornamental vases in the room filled with sand so that it would be always at I hand and ready for use in case of need A further incidental advantage of this precaution pre-caution is that fragile pieces of porcelain by being so ballasted would be rendered much less liable to breakage Chicago IntcrOccan |