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Show A Countryman's Suggestion. A countryman who boarded the fire-boat fire-boat New Yorker at her berth at the Battery the other day was interested to observe the completeness of her equipment equip-ment for fighting fire along the river front. Her powerful pumps and ingenious ingen-ious arrangements for directing the streams upon burning buildings or into the holds of vessels filled him with admiration. ad-miration. Then he asked the engineer to show him the workings of the searchlight. search-light. Ke took it for granted that there was one and was amazed to learn that there was no electrical plant at all on the boat This would appear to be a curious cu-rious deficiency in a boat otherwise perfectly per-fectly appointed, and it is difficult to see how so obvious a need could have been overlooked in the building of the New Yorker. The countryman's discovery discov-ery has led to a discussion of the need of a searchlight and may lead to its introduction in-troduction on the boat It is admitted that such a light would be of the greatest great-est value to the New Yorker in finding its way at night about among the crowded and tangled slips. It would, moreover, make it possible to direct a powerful light upon the fronts of warehouses, ware-houses, to the very great assistance of the firemen. Electric lights on the boat would also be supplied in place of the old fashioned oil lamps that are now in use. New York Sun- |
