Show fireproof eira eire proof firemen fire rire men aen 0 the french are aie the cavat a ua un Y have any conflagrations at all compared copt pared ua they have designed design de od file proof dresses for their fine fire mory morl and ans nd indu indulged lied in it some eoma interesting reri feri meat t w with ith them we give tile the the merti ments took place iu in pang pane I 1 the tile contrivance is 13 fer for fir erfa eraa the action af pf f atle aud and sw a ot it cou con consists siets 61 amm amp anthus afkind of mineral rolf roif lerdi leral A a tie met mt of thiv as laree tame material fiting into inlo a auquier ther or of wire glaize and amel a fh meld weld wu one metre la ia and 80 broad other ear aar ments of the thea above boie aued ma materia terii teril 19 thic thice fin firrman men meu having put pat on the gloves were etab elabed d to carry cany iron bars at a white heat for three minutes without being obliged to let go their hold haid his hlf shaw wes WEB afterwards set fi fereto fire reto to in a larr larg Weast iron cauldron cauldren caul dron and kept up while a myman agman 0 emans emadi wearing ghe the double doole helmet delmet above nien niec tinned stood above the flames winch ch he warded warded off shield although they rose at times above his head he was enabled to keep his post for a minute and a half at end of which time his pulse which was 72 before the experiment had risen to another fireman followed who having covered his forehead with a piece of was enabled to resist the flames for three minutes and forty seconds two ion lon longitudinal heaps of chips splint splinters ers a and aud nd straw had been prepared about five feet asunder and 30 feet in m length two lateral openings being left to enable the tho firemen to get out ili in case of necessity four men were now equipped in complete suits salts of wire gauze with suits of two of efthem thein wore besides a dress of amia amla another suit of clothes rendered ren dared incombustible by means cf of borax alum and phosphate hos I 1 ate efa cf ammonia minonia the two others vore wore yore a kubiel double dress of prepared cloth one man moreover was f entrusted trusted li with a basket of wire gauze on lii ill hh i back bach containing a boy ten years old pro by a helmet of th thi heaps being set fire to thesa these men r vent ent into the file flames together and aid walking at vec very moderate pace ace performed the distance several times at theand the i end ct of sixty seconds the boy shrieked bedout and the fire fireman faan iaan who carried him immediately lapped bopped oatt oat of the flames was exa examined wined but was found perfectly uninjured ared his skin shin was waa cool ani and his pulse use which was at 84 before the experiment had i ad only risen to 96 lie he might therefore have resisted longer had be not ben bert fright I 1 ed at seeing the flames meet over his head while at the same sadia time one of the ropes which basket hd ind s slid sila li down themire the fire man mad mans maps 3 shoulder dera dern a little with a slight t shock shook A few minutes after ha lie was as gay as ever and arid betrayed no a of f I 1 disposition indisposition n the tha foremans firemans fi remans I 1 puse auge IV was 92 before WES wex aft erthe experiment 11 tho the other three men remained ft two 0 and forty forts four seconds in the fia fla flames nies niev ad aad stated oil on coming on out cut 1 that they had experienced no particular painful sp stion except that of ece eee excessive sIve heat their puls puis es which were 88 sv 84 and ard 72 bools before were respectively alid and igi 12 t after A pircia of fire about tep metres metras in diameter dia dla meter metar was now formed withstood the eft ct extremely welt well with their fireproof coverings although at a distan distance a of 0 flie five metres ahe iha heat beat was so intense that none cf of the bystanders could resist it |