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throughout the city ; and on March 7 A. M. CUfford, who then had charge 

 of the steam fire engine, was ordered by the city council to take charge also 

 of the fire alarm system — and his salary was therefore raised to $90 per 

 month. This position Mr. Clifford holds yet — 1894. 



LIST OF FIRE DEPARTMENT ON AUGUST I, 1 894. 



NAME. POSITION. SALARY PER MO. 



A. S. Turbett, chief of fire department $15 00 



F. V. Hovey, assistant chief and secretary 8 00 



A. M. Clifford, steam engineer and electrician 90 00 



S. W. Fancher, stoker, and driver of hose cart 50 00 



J. O. Reynolds, driver of engine 60 00 



A. B. Case, foreman of hose company 5 00 



F. M'Afee, Wm. Barto, Lewis Allen, Geo. E Furman, 



A. E. Bisbee, callmen, each 5 00 



J. A. Mclntyre, foreman Hook and Ladder Co. (treasurer). 8 00 



Henry Hutchinson, driver of hook and ladder truck 60 00 



Edward Fouke, S. B. Beers, Gus. Banbury, Geo. Cla^^ter, 



Harry Porter, callmen, each 5 00 



The boiler of the fire engine is kept full of water at the boiling point, 

 continuously night and day, by means of a coke furnace and water heater 

 under the. floor and connected with the engine by pipes with automatic 

 valves, cut-offs, etc. The engine's fire-box is kept always primed with 

 quick-blaze kindling. The harnesses remain permanently attached to the 

 engine, but suspended and held open by slip-hooks. The horses stand 

 loose in their stalls behind the engine, with only a swing-bar before them ; 

 and they are trained when the electric gong in the room sounds an alarm, to 

 leap to their places, the harnesses drop down on them, three spring snaps 

 for each horse complete their attachment, and thus ordinarily in about ten 

 seconds from instant of alarm the engine begins to roll and plunge out, the 

 horses being trained to go on a tearing gallop at once and until the scene of 

 fire is reached. The engine weighs 7,725 pounds. If the alarm comes 

 from a station anywhere near the business center, the fixed match is im- 

 mediately struck in the fire-box, the blaze roars up, and inside of five min- 

 utes from instant of alarm the hose could be attached, and the engine 

 throwing water on top of the First National Bank, or the Carlton Block, or 

 Hotel Green, etc. The horses and harnesses for the hose cart and the 

 hook-and-ladder truck have the same arrangements for quick, prompt work, 

 the horses being all trained to leap to their own proper places when the 

 alarm sounds, and to go at their utmost speed through the streets. Every- 

 thing else — even the Salvation Army ! — must give way for them. 



August I, 1894, there are in the city sixty fire-plugs, and eighteen 

 electric fire alarm stations or boxes. There are 1,900 feet of two-and-a-half 

 inch hose, warranted to withstand a water pressure of 400 pounds per 

 square inch, while the ordinary pressure in service is only from 125 to 175 

 pounds per square inch. The hose cart as it runs to a fire, loaded for ser- 



