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SPEAKING about the proposed purchase of a fire boat for service in the harbor of Baltimore, The Herald of that city remarks that within a year enough property has been burned along the water front to pay for three or four such boats, some of it being practically beyond the reach of any of the land engines, while it would have been especially accessible to a good fire boat. This has been the general experience of cities and towns with water front property of any considerable extent or value, and the universal adoption of fire boats or floating engines at such places is only a matter of time.
WITH one amendment of no general importance the bill authorizing the building of a suspension bridge across the Hudson river at New York city will, it is announced from Washington, be favorably reported by the committee upon commerce of the House of Representatives. If there is any particular opposition to the construction of this bridge under the proper regulations for the protection of shipping interests and the rights of the States of New York and New Jersey, it does not appear to have yet developed itself, and, as far as legislative sanction is concerned, the prospects for the carrying out of the scheme look bright.
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