Passengers aer the Atlantic are becoming interested in a new kind of five-fighter which is being fitted to all the mammoth liners as their boilers are converted from coal to oil fuel burning.
It is a British invention, popularly called " Firefoam," a substance which has the valuable property of extinguishing oil flames almost immediately.
The White Star liner Olympic, which has just made a record trip on oil fuel from New York to Southampton, is being fitted with the extinguisher, and the new steamer Majestic, owned by the same line, will also carry the apparatus for making the foam.
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