Fire Engines for Manila.

Fire Engines for Manila.

“Although our city has a population of over 300,000," said Rafael Reyes, Governor of Manila, at the California hotel in San Francisco last week, "there is not a building or house in the city of over one story in height. I bring a commission from the municipality of Manila to purchase in this country some $60,000 worth of fire apparatus. I have an old-fashioned steam fire engine at my shipyards at Manila, but the city fire department only boasts of the old-style hand engines. Our buildings being one story only, we have no use lor aerial ladders and fire escapes, but we are sadly in need of steam fire engines, hose carts, and a large supply of hose. Before I leave America I shall purchase the sixty-thousand-dollar equipment and have the same shipped to the Phillippines. Our firemen, like others in the islands, move very slowly, and it requires twenty men there to do the work performed by four men in the United States.

“Although our city has a population of over 300,000," said Rafael Reyes, Governor of Manila, at the California hotel in San Francisco last week, "there is not a building or house in the city of over one story in height. I bring a commission from the municipality of Manila to purchase in this country some $60,000 worth of fire apparatus. I have an old-fashioned steam fire engine at my shipyards at Manila, but the city fire department only boasts of the old-style hand engines. Our buildings being one story only, we have no use lor aerial ladders and fire escapes, but we are sadly in need of steam fire engines, hose carts, and a large supply of hose. Before I leave America I shall purchase the sixty-thousand-dollar equipment and have the same shipped to the Phillippines. Our firemen, like others in the islands, move very slowly, and it requires twenty men there to do the work performed by four men in the United States.