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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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itation, agreed to the companys proposition toinstall the system in a car house filled with cars and then de-liberately set fire to the house. Mr. Andrews insisted that thetrial should be made under the most extreme conditions andthat a series of tests should be conducted embodying the vari-ous causes from which car house fires usually originate. The building selected was an obsolete frame car house at thecorner of Quincy Street and Bolton Avenue, which is isolatedfrom surrounding property and is used for car storage. The September io, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 367 piping was, of course, of a temporary character. A 6-in. ironpipe from the city main was rim through the adjoining lot, ex-tending the full length of one side of the building. From thistwo 5-in. lines extended into the house. Two vertical 5-in.mains supplied the sprinklers in the house. Across the rear ofthe house and connected with the main from the street, was a4-in. main, both ends of which were connected to Siamese
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CAR THAT STOOD WITHIN A FOOT OF DAMAGED CAR steamer connections, so that pressure from fire engines couldbe turned into the system if necessary. The piping in the rooffollowed the General Fire Extinguisher Companys usual prac-tice, the sprinkler heads being placed in rows 7 ft. apart andstaggered so as to distribute the spray. The sprinklers betweenthe cars, which was the new feature of the system, were sus-pended from pipes leading from the roof, and were level withthe center of the car windows. The sprinkler heads in bothcases were the standard Grinnell type, which have been used bythe company for a number of years. The valve in the head isheld in place by a central column, which is soldered with a softmetal, fusible at any predetermined degree of heat. In thiscase they were set for about 150 degs. The water as it is re-

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