Plainfield’s New Fire House.

Plainfield’s New Fire House.

PLAINFIELD'S new fire house, illustrations of which we publish herewith, by courtesy of the Daily Press of that city, is a handsome and substantial structure. It is an ornament to the town, of which Chief Doane, who furnished us the description, may well be proud. The building is fifty five ft. six in. front on grade line, and fifty ft. three in. in rears and sixty two ft. six in. deep. The apparatus floor is fifty ft. six in. by thirty-six ft. eight in. in the clear, except where the trucks stand, which is forty five ft. six in. deep, with space between stalls for overhang of ladders if necessary. The first floor is of twelve in. cone grained yellow pine, two and one half in. face. The stable and tower floors are cement throughout, except in the box stalls. The stalls have movable floors of oak slats.

The building is ceiled on the first and second story with seven-eighths of an in. by three in. tongued and grooved Norway pine, hard oil finish. The outside walls are built of good, hard brick; the front finished in Trenton pressed brick and terracotta. The front doorways art* trimmed with Martinville stone. The first story is thirteen ft. in the clear, the second story nine ft. six in. and the stable ten ft. Tim hose tower is fifty three feet in the clear to the hose hangers. The house is fitted with electric light and gas throughout, and all the stable doors unconnected with electric trips. The entire building is heated by hot water to 70 degrees of heat in zero weather.