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from the Atlantic Works, East Boston, for the Boston Fire De- 

 partment. Her pumps were of the Amoskeag pattern. This boat 

 has since been replaced by one more powerful. The next fire boat 

 was the Havemeyer, built in New York in 1875, and followed in 

 1883 by the Zophar Mills for the same department. These boats 

 are still in service. 



The first very powerful fire boat was the Seth Low, built for 

 the Brooklyn department by the Cowles Engineering Company 

 of that city. This company has since built a number of fire boats 



F i < ; . 10. The Fire Boat New-Yorker, New York Fire Department. 



for different cities, one of them being the New-Yorker, which is 

 among the most powerful in the world. Chicago has four fire 

 boats in her department. The modern fire boat is sometimes built 

 of wood, but generally of iron, and in some cases the decks are so 

 provided with corrugated iron shields and sprinklers that the boat 

 can be worked to advantage in a perfect sea of fire. The whole 

 power of the pumps can be concentrated in one stream from three 

 to five inches in diameter, from a swivel nozzle on the forward 

 deck, or, instead, a large number of ordinary fire streams can be 



