ENGINE TRIAL AT SIOUX CITY.

ENGINE TRIAL AT SIOUX CITY.

The new steam fire engine was recently tested at Sioux City, Ia., and was accepted by the city. A local paper reports on the event as follows: It was an exhibition of the Nott fire engine, purchased by the city council at a cost of $5,000. The steamer answered every expectation, and those who know anything about these machines expressed themselves as eminently satisfied with the performance. The engine weighs 9,730 pounds. E. A. Wilkinson, representing the Nott company, was in charge of the test. With a cold boiler and without draught ten pounds of steam were raised in four minutes; twenty pounds, in four and a half minutes; forty pounds in six minutes; sixty pounds, in seven and a quarter minutes: eighty pounds in seven and a half minutes; 100 pounds in eight minutes; and 140 pounds in nine minutes. With a forced draught the same pressure can lie obtained in a little less than seven minutes. The first water thrown was through two lines of two and a half-inch hose, with one and a quarter-inch nozzles. The other tests were with three streams with one and oneeighth-inch nozzles and four streams, with oneinch nozzles. In each case the discharge was pronounced very satisfactory. In the final test with two-way Siamese connection, a stream was thrown over the statue of Liberty on the courthouse.

At Cape May, N. J . the other day fire started in the furnace room of the local gas works. Some tar became ignited, and. fanned by the strong breeze, the flames spread rapidly towards the gas tanks, which were full of gas for the night's consumption. It gave the firemen a hard struggle to get the blaze under control. The chemical engine did excellent work