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Show AS TO DYNAMITE DANGERS Explosive May Be Handled Even Recklessly by Experienced Men. "Tho recent- lallwny accident at Ilarrlsburg has brought out u vast amount of Irresponsible Irresponsi-ble talk about handling dynamite." (Mid a contractor who had purchased tons of that ox-' ox-' plosive Tor blasting purposes. "Tho majority of persons who talk about dynamite havo only a vague Idea of what 11 Is. Dynamite Is not tho dangevous substanco It Is popularly wup-pofPd wup-pofPd to be. It may be handled With absoluto recklessness by an experienced man unil will not Jetonato except under well-defined circumstances. circum-stances. ' A detonation is about I0M times quicker than an explosion. Dynamite dc-tonaiey. dc-tonaiey. It docs not explode. "Dynamite In ltd marketable form. In order to fit Into drill holrs. Is shipped In otlcka varying vary-ing from half nn Inch to two Inches In diameter diam-eter and from three Inches to cso fc-ot In length. In the early days of Its manufacture, before Its properties were fully underatood. there were some unacounlable explosions that gnvo dynamite a bad namo It has never recovered re-covered from. Time has mado us wise. There Is no danger at nil In children llndlng odds and ends of dynamite thrown away by cnrf-Icss cnrf-Icss 'workmen. A child would And a great donl of difficulty In exploding It. Every now sand then we read of somebody receiving it pupposed Infernal machine containing dynamite, dyna-mite, which Is promptly Immersed In water before It is opened. If It wan really dynamite It would explode Just ns roudlly. under proper conditions, !f It were In twenty feet of water. "Dynamite Is nitroglycerin held In an nb-6orbent nb-6orbent wood pulp, coal dust or other materialthat ma-terialthat will hold the explosive tightly. It ( Is a powder of n resinous nature, varying In , rolor with tho absorbent used. The strength : Is calculated by the amount of nitroglycerin absorbed by the carrier. varying all the way 1 from CO to so per cent I' For commercial purposes allck dynamite Is packed In twcnty-flve-pound or fifty-pound eases, with a liberal allowance of sawdust It can be freighted or stored without danger, provided common Intelligence and caro bo used. It Is only when Ignorant persons attempt at-tempt to experiment with It that It becomes a powerful destroying agency. In some States Its transportation bv rail la governed by strict law. It xhould bo so In every Slate. In Now York and other cities Its transportation through tho streots is reculated by tho Fire Commissioner. The police have nothing to do with It." Buffalo Courier. |