Auto Machines for New York.

Auto Machines for New York.

The doom of the fire horse as an important part of the equipment of the New York fire department is foreshadowed in the contract which has been awarded for an automobile fire engine. This engine is the first of the kind which the city has adopted, and there is an opinion in the department that the auto machine will demonstrate its superiority in so many ways over the horse-drawn apparatus that it will be only a question of a few years when the clatter of the fire horses’ iron-shod feet will no longer be heard. That the automobile engine will be a success is the confident belief of Commissioner Waldo and Chief Croker. Both men have had sufficient experience with automobile passenger cars to be able to form a pretty good judgment as to the advantages ot self-propelled fire engines, and it was only alter careful consideration that the decision was arrived at to equip the fire department with the most advanced type of firefighting apparatus.

The doom of the fire horse as an important part of the equipment of the New York fire department is foreshadowed in the contract which has been awarded for an automobile fire engine. This engine is the first of the kind which the city has adopted, and there is an opinion in the department that the auto machine will demonstrate its superiority in so many ways over the horse-drawn apparatus that it will be only a question of a few years when the clatter of the fire horses’ iron-shod feet will no longer be heard. That the automobile engine will be a success is the confident belief of Commissioner Waldo and Chief Croker. Both men have had sufficient experience with automobile passenger cars to be able to form a pretty good judgment as to the advantages ot self-propelled fire engines, and it was only alter careful consideration that the decision was arrived at to equip the fire department with the most advanced type of firefighting apparatus.