Show nitroglycerin LASTS A is experiment with nu fc kt ncr nitroglycerin cannot be annihilated said a man of long experience in petroleum operations in the pennsylvania oil fields to a new york sun reporter and from the re akless manner in ahia the deadly explosive has been handled ever since it came into use in alie oil country it is a wonder that there is a town left standing there everybody knowd how terribly this compound is by concussion but few know its lasting properties and how impossible it is to destroy them in manufacturing nitroglycerin one of the processes is tire straining of it through felau dually through the crowns of old felt hats these crowns have served their purpose as of the liquid cc plosive they are burned to place their saturation with alie nitroglycerin beyond the possible doing oi damage in the possession of careless and thoughtless at a nitro glyceria factory in the bradford oil field anae an employed thought he would put the life and vigor of the explosive to a test he took a hat crown eliat had been used as a strainer washed it thoroughly and then treated it with strong al kalies aie placed the felt away on a shelf out of reach and knowledge of anyone else in the factory to dry then he forgot about it for two years but one day happened to recall alie circumstance and took the felt crown to complete his test workmen in nitroglycerin factories and in handling the dangerous stuff about wells are notoriously reckless but alie most careful and timid man would scarcely leave any fear of two year old strainer that had been so thoroughly cleansed alie workman aho vho had taken it upon himself to make the test had no idea that there could possibly remain in the felt even the suspicion of danger and to show how the had been annihilated by the treatment he put the felt on the iron arm of alio dinners tin ners bench where the cans for holding alie erin are soldered and struck it with a hammer the result was a surprise in that factory an explosion ex followed alie blow eliat broke both of the mans arms stunned three other men hurled the heavy iron arm through a brick wall and wrecked the tinning shop |