New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1921, Page 7

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1921. GASOLINE DANGERS | TOLD IN REPORTS Burean of Mines Says Careless- | ness Causes Accidents. Frequent accidents in the transpor- tation and handling of petroleum and, s more volatile products, serve as a reminder that this is, indeed, a haz ardous undertaking and should ai- ways be conducted with due caution, reports the United States Bureau ot Mines. The bureau says that on Oc- tober 4, 1920, vapors in the hold of the British tank steamer G. R. Crowe became ignited and caused an ex- plosion which, it is reported, killed five Mmen, injured 40 others and en- dangered the lives of some 300 more, and adds that on November 10, 19820, the Morgan Line freighter El Mundo was almost totally destroyed in New York harbor by fire caused by an ex- plosiom of gases in a fuel-oil tank. Those two disastrous explosions em- hasize the ever-present danger at- ending the use of petroleum prod- | ots. ‘This is also shown by the fre- constant | purpose | cigar while quent ‘occurrence of minor firds and explosions, caused by careless han- dling of gasoline, which result in loss of life or serious injury to raliroad employes, to oll-tank drivers, and to the Individuals In various walks of lite Statistics indicate that the cuts of petroleum products, because of fire hazards, are dangerou ana are 80 considered by the railroad and other thansportation companies. Ac- cording to the Bureau of Explosives, during 1919 trunsportation of gasolir in the United States resulted in 1 accldents, causing 2 deaths and injurfes and a property loss to the ex tent of $687,966. Among the causes of ignition, an open light in the vi- cinity of the container stands out monst prominently. Experiments conducted by the | United States Burean of Mines have | shown that highly explosive mixtures of hydrocarbon (gasoline) vapors and lighter air are produced when the mixture contains 1.4 to 6 per cent. of hydro- carbon vapor, and dangerous flashes may be produced with mixtures con- taining less or more than these pro- portions, The principal way in which the lighter proportion of petrofeum, com- monly known as gasoline, serves man- Kind is through the ability of its va- pors to form with the proper propor- tions of alr these highly explosive compounds. The bureau says were this better appreciated by the layman, it would seem that accidents and fires due to careless handling of such pe. troleum products might be greatly reduced in number Many a man while driving his atuomobile makes adjustmen to the “chok- er' on the carburetor for the express of obtaining the exact mix- ture of air and hydrocarbon gas (gas- oline vapor) that under the existing conditions of barometric pressure, en- gine temperature, ete., will lend itselt to the most violent and therefore the most effective explosion, says the bu- reau. Notwithstanding that he does these things with a full knowledge and appreciation of the results ob- tained. nevertheless he will light his standing by his tank as it is being filled at the service sta- tion, or, even worse, he will smoke his pipe, replenishing its flame again and again while using gasoline to re- move grease from the various parts of his car, in the relatively confined area of his private garage. Continu- ing. the burcau says When hydrocarbon vapers line vapors) the escaping from an open vessel or from any container of the liquid, there is always somewhere W the immediate vicinity of the con- fainer a mixture of those gases and air in just the right proportion to be high- ly combustible. It remains only for a rk to be brought into this zone to cause ignition, which, striking back to the container, will fire the whole mass. One may perhaps bring a spark or flame Into the vicinity repeatedly and, if it does not happen to ecounter the zone of explosive gas, cause no ex- plosion, but it does not follow that the next offense will not lead to disaster. “Where repairs or changes are to be make in tanks or other containers be- ing used for the storage or transporta- tion of petroleum products, which re- pairs require the use of opecn flames or electric arcs, or other possible (zaso- means ignition, every precaution shauld taken after the tank has been emptied to remove by steam or other means all traces of the remain- ing vapors. When possible, after the stealing is completed the air in the tank should be sampled ahgd analyzed in order to make sure that the danger- ous vapors have been completely re- moved. To make such repairs while there is still oil in the tank, even thouzh it be relatively heavy of fuel oil, has been demonstrated again and again to be the height of folly. of be responsi- at all position with the should their ““Those charged bility for work remember. that < with it the far greater respon- sibility of the lives and safety of humn things. It, therefore, behooves them to leave no stone unturned to the end that workmen engaged in the actual exccution of the tasks be safe- guarded from every standpoint. Fur- thermore all who derive pleasure or service from the such times car ’nu- automoble enthusiast. to the house- wife removing traces of grease from garments should always remember that even as fire uncontrolled is trans- formed instantly from servant to master so gasoline carelessly handled hecomes an of death and de- struction.” agent best coffee, $1.00. TRussell HERO SLOWLY DYING. Various Parts of Man's Anatamy Have to Be Amputated. May of neva, veaux, French Legion, is dying of an ailment that has 20.—Emile Froide- hero the Foreign puzzled specialists for two years. Little by little his legs and parts of both arms have been amputated in a series of 33 operations that have not stopped spread of the malady. He is soon to be moved from a hospi- tal to his home, where it is hoped, he may receive in ceremony before he dies, the Croix de Guerre awarded him by the French government. Pure lard, 11c 1b. Russell Bros.— | aavt srade | use of gasoline from | Mexico | ment ;20 and continues for six days. | the United States alone. the | JOHNSON IN COURT Wet Wash Laundry Man Allowed Car to Be Driven With Defective Brakes 1s Charged. William C. Johnsgon, who conducts a wet-wash laundry, was before Judge George W. Klett in police court this morning on a charge of allowing one of his cars to be used with knowledge that the brakes were defective. Onc of Johnson's drivers was arrested Wednesday by Policeman Clarence Lamphere. Both the emergency and foot brakes were found to be below standard . n court yesterday the driver told Judge Klett that his em- ployer ordered him to take the truck out, knowing that the mechanism of the brakes was in need of repair. The court suggested that the owner of the car be brought in to face charges and Prosecuting Attorney Albert A. Green- berg acted accordingly, This morning Johnson admitted his knowledgze of the poor hrakes when he sent the truck oit on ¢he highway. He was warned to have repairs made and keep the brakes in good eondition at all times. Judgment A¥as suspend- ed. BIG TRADE (‘O’éREN('E. ¥ Will Be Mecca for 1,500 Delegates Next Month. Mexico City, May 20.—Preparations are being made here for the entertain- of more than 1,500 delegates io the International Trade conference which opens in Mexico City next June More than 1,000 delegates are expected from The Women's Chamber of Commerce of the United States has been invited to participate in the sessions. Spanish, English and French will be the official languages of the meetimgs but the committees in charge assert ierman, Italian, Swedish and Nor- wegian exporters and importers will be well represented. The program will include di ssions of such subjects as Mexican credits and methods of sales and distribution, tariff reciprocity between Mexico and the countries with which it exchanges goods and products, standardizing weights and measures in the United States, Canada and Mexico and the exchange of Mexi- can-American scholarships. THIRD DEGREE IS TERRIBLY CRUEL So Says American Who Has Been in Russian Prison Royal Esthonia, May 20—The worst vhase of imprisonment in Moscow is not the possibility or probability of execu- tion but the daily attempts made to wring confessions from the prisoners, 1vs Dr. Morris Zucker, a Brooklyn communist, who arrived here month after having served four months in the Russian jails. Some of his ex- periences and observations have prev ously been made public. Zucker sentenced in New York in 1919 to 60 vears' imprisonment for sedition but was deported instead. this | was | Speaking of the life of the prisoners in the principal political prison at Mos- cow, which is called the ‘0. O. V., he said, ‘‘the daily third degree to which prisoners are subjected if they are sus- | pected of a serious political crime is worse than execution. These prisoners are taken every day, if their captors confession from them, into the tioning room. There, whether they have anything to confess or not., they are commanded to ‘reveal the truth.’ ““The commissar puts a revolver to the prisoner's head, ‘confess, or I'll shoot,” he says. The prisoner waits for the shot. coming or not. “*This process is often repeated until the prisoner will confess rather than undergo any further ordeals, in which case he is shot anyway.'” The mental condition of these prison- ers becomes such that they would pre- fer death, said Dr. Zucker. The Brook- lyn communist says that he met in the various prisons of Moscow 20 of the radicals deported from America and that he could well understand why the ! think their is a chance of wringing a | ques- He never knows whether ]tl Bolsheviki arrested them chiefly anarchists who did any government, “‘part government so dictatoriall tained by the Bolsheviki.' Zucker said he found the president of the republic, Mohammed H: Alex Gertor, once col Russian southwestern fro bers of the executive con right wing of the soci party, three members of committee of the left wing includidng Mayorieff, w! © of agriculture in 1 | former minister of eccles! | | 1 | { M. Samaun. 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