Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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YESTERDAY Rattle hired the steam launch at the Riverside Recreation Grounds. In trying to run the engine he scalded his face, burnt his hand and jammed his toe in the crank shaft. He says he never before realized the dangers of the naval militia...
...staircase, no fire escape whatever on one side and on the other side a ladder which can be reached from one room on each floor. Of course if the tenant of that room is out, the door is locked. There is also a wooden stairway in the air shaft which requires no comment...
...rooms in number 38 on the top story was reading in his room when he smelt smoke, and on going into the entry was nearly stifled by the dense cloud which was rolling up from the floor below. He attempted to go down the wooden ladder in the air shaft but finding it on fire started down the stairs. Whether he forgot that from the end room in the entry he could reach the fire escape or whether the room was locked is not known. Suffice it to say that Henney reached the fourth floor, found it impossible...
...usual pull in the tank. In the tank itself there have been some important changes. In place of the old twelve-foot oars with a hole cut in the blade, a new set has been made with the blades shaved down to the same width as the shaft-three inches-which makes the strain less than with the old seven inch blades. The leverage has also been increased. With the old oar there was forty-two inches inboard, which on the present oar has been increased two inches. In regard to the seats there has been no change...
...engines which have been put in there necessitated a change in the draft of the flues. The old ventilating pipes were being taken out and larger ones inserted. Thomas O'Brien, a laborer, was at work in the bottom of the shaft when a large section of the pipe broke loose and fell directly upon his head, injuring him seriously. He was taken at once to the Cambridge Hospital, but the chances for his recovery are exceedingly slight...