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Also the fierce heat fairly melted the pipes themselves in the vicinity of the elevator shafts, and there was no automatic sprinkling system in the building. This was the situation, then, when Tom in his airship loaded with fire-extinguishing chemicals headed for the blaze.

Oh, sit where you were, Griggs, don't drag in that asinine clownishness of yours. Or, better still, come up with me and see the business end of the thing the tank and all that." "The stuff isn't inflammable, is it? We're smoking, you know." "An inflammable fire-extinguishing liquid!" cried Hawkins. "Why, can't you understand that bah!" He laid a course to the upper regions and I followed.

"Pretty slick act, Tom," remarked Ned. "Oh, it's all in the day's work," was the answer. He had all but perfected his big fire-extinguishing aeroplane, and was contemplating means by which he could give a demonstration to the fire department of some big city, when Mr. Baxter asked to see Tom one day.

Baxter to do certain research work in the Swift laboratories until such time as the chemist could perfect certain other inventions on which he was working. In return for his kindness to a fellow laborer, Tom received from Mr. Baxter some valuable hints about fire-extinguishing chemicals, one hint, alone, serving to bring about a curious situation.

"It was a false alarm," replied Tom. "And now, Mr. Damon, if you want to smell some perfumes come with me." "Are you going into that line, Tom?" asked the eccentric man. "Bless my handkerchief, my wife will be glad of that!" "I mean I'm going to experiment some more with fire-extinguishing chemicals," laughed the young inventor. "If you want to " "Bless my gas mask, I should say not!" cried Mr.

"I won't," Tom promised. "We'll be back soon." Then came the roar of the motor as Tom cut out the muffler to gain speed and, a moment later, he and his two friends were sailing aloft with a load of fire-extinguishing chemicals. Up and up rose the aircraft. It was not the first time Mr.

This was rebuilt to enable a considerable quantity of the fire-extinguishing liquid to be stored in the under part of the somewhat limited cockpit. This much done, and while his men were making up a quantity of the extinguisher, using the secret formula, and storing it in suitable containers, Tom began attaching a searchlight to his "cloud fire-engine," as Koku called it.

It is a large copper vessel resembling nothing so much as the fire-extinguishing cylinders one sees in public buildings at home. About our gas-pumps I know nothing except by hearsay. They are in charge of "corporals" in the chemical corps of the sappers, and your corporal is, in nine cases out of ten, a man whose position in the scientific world at home is one of considerable distinction.

His opponent in the bloodless arena of Science saved him by interrupting: "Yes, sir. I differ from my friend Marmion on a good many points, and that's one of them. You have the honour to serve in the biggest fire-extinguishing institution on earth.

Ordinarily a man employed as a levee watchman would not have been told to come to the private office at all. Nor would such a man have seen anybody higher than a junior clerk in collecting his wages. But Captain Hallam had been impressed by this newcomer, and he wanted to talk with him. He broke at once into a catechism. "Why did you do that little fire-extinguishing act last night?"