MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS

Following is an extract from a letter addressed by Chief Hale of Kansas City to the Vajen-Bader Company of Indianapolis: ‘‘On May 15, 1896, a carboy of nitric acid was broken accidentally in the office of the Kansas City Evening Star, thereby setting fire to the building. The fumes of the acid made the condition such that human life could not exist, William Brown, the colored porter, having lost his life from said fumes. On the arrival of the fire department, it was impossible to enter the building, until I ordered one of the firemen to put on the “Bader Helmet,” after which he entered the building and carried out the carboy, thereby enabling his comrades to enter with a chemical engine stream and put the fire out in a few minutes."

The township of Kearny, N.J., has ordered a hose wagon of the Gleason and Bailey Manufacturing Company. Thi firm furnished the town with rolling stock several years ago* and it has given satisfaction.—I-ast year the town of New Hyde Park, N. ¥,, graciously permitted a local blacksmith to to make a hook and ladder truck for the fire department. This year a hew truck outfit has been ordered from the shops of Gleason and Bailey Manufacturing Company, Seneca Kails. N. Y.—A committee from Hagerstown, Md., visited New York city recently, and gave their order for a large city hook and ladder truck to the same firm, which has also received a letter from H. O. Sebern, driver of chemical t of the Boise, Idaho, fire department, acknowledging the receipt of a set of Mogul draught springs, in which he says that the springs were fairly tested in tworunsafterattaching them to the fire apparatus and that the Gleason and Bailey Company “ do not say enough for them. Anyone who likes a horse, and has a load to draw should purchase them. The price is nothing to the benefit derived by the animal.”