Show DEATH BY TERRIFIC NOISE nerola se lf destruction chosen ly by stokers of steamers readers of capt griffins article on battleships in war in china and his hia descriptions of the terrors of alza boiler room where mens heads bled from the shock of noise will like to hear front from nn englishman that when a man comes to grief and has to disappear for reasons of any sort he of often ten chooses tb the living death of a stoker on a steamboat says the new york press 1 I was once taken over v the engine rooms of a big boat while we were going through the straits of gibraltar he says and having endured an almos i tropical sun for some weeks I 1 felt wel disposed to see sec the furnaces I 1 ariev them for about ten seconds and cam out feeling more dead than alive th chief engineer told me afterward tha the men employed to attend to the fires fire were the very dregs of humanity bw bui represented many many social conditions lie ile said that in his 50 years experience he had ad found members of learned professions so ns side by side with men inen who had served time the main object of such comers was to exist away from the sight of the rest af pf of humanity and for this purpose they became inured to the horrible atmosphere and surroundings of the furnace room it was pretty bad down there then jus just t now he confessed but imagine the red eed sea in august and then thin what they must endure sailors who have bare spent years in the tropics cannot long stand stol stoking ing so great is the heats heat yet there are men in the vitals of great liners that tha never left temperate climes men who used to go to cool places in summer 1711 ner until their faults or misfortunes drove them to the boilers fancy what the work is when accompanied by c concussions of shot that crack the flesh open I 1 |