MISCELLANEOUS
Charles T. Holloway & Co., of Baltimore, Md., have just delivered to the city of Scranton, Pa., one of their celebrated double-tank combination chemical engine and hose wagons for service in the Relief fire company, and also one of their double tank chemical engines for service by the Columbia chemical engine company. Northampton, Mass., has made a contract with the same firm through C. M. Richardson, of Providence, R. I., for a combination chemical engine and hose wagon to cost $1,800, and to be delivered in 100 days.
Mayor Quincy, of Boston, Mass., having asked the officials of the Boston fire department of the merits as to the Montauk Multiphase cable, B. S. Flanders, superintendent of the fire alarm branch,writes that it ‘‘appears to be a very valuable adjunct for use in any automatic fire alarm service depending on the action of thermostatic devices for its operation * * * [and] superior to the isolated thermostats used in the present automatic system,” being “thermostatic throughout its entire length” and therefore, “available for operating the system with which it is connected, should a fire occur at any point where it is placed.”
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