UP TO DATE FIRE DEPARTMENTS.

UP TO DATE FIRE DEPARTMENTS.

The sales of Samuel Eastman & Co., for their Deluge Sets, and Perfection Holders and nozzles, Hopkins’patent, continue to increase in a manner highly complimentary for this new nozzle system. Among the fire departments that have recently received or ordered this system, we find Boston, Fall River, Athol, Quincy, Gardner, Greenfield, and North Attleboro, Mass.; Belfast, Eastport, and Calais, Me.; Pawtucket and Newport, R. I., Canal Dover, O.,Winchester, Ky., Lebanon, Pa.; New Brighton, S. I., Plainfield, N. J., and Walkerville, Ont. A water tower outfit for Detroit, Mich. Also the fitting up with this new system of the Poland Springs hotel, South Poland, Me., The Hartford Cycle Company, Hartford, Conn., the Hey wood Bros. & Company, chair manufacturers of Gardner, Mass, and others. At a trial test of the twenty-second, by the city of Pawtucket, R. I., a solid 2 1-8-inch stream was thrown from a single hydrant fully 300 feet; while at a trial test in Greenfield, Mass., the twenty-fourth, solid perpendicular streams 1 5-8-inch, 1 3-4-inch, and 2-inch in size were easily thrown from one hydrant over a church spire 175 feet above the street level. The great improvement in stream which this system m ikes vas again shown, the twenty-fifth, by the Ayer, Mass., fire department, throwing 1 5-8-inch, 1 3-4 inch, and 2-inch solid stream from one hydrant nearly twice the distance it was possible to throw streams from their nozzles in use. These new outfits are now made mostly of aluminum metal, cast especially for this purpose, and in its compact and light form it is found an indispensable equipment for every fire company, providing streams at any time up to 2 inches and larger in size. The importance of such streams in case of the prospect of a large fire canno: be overestimated and every fire service should be equipped.

The sales of Samuel Eastman & Co., for their Deluge Sets, and Perfection Holders and nozzles, Hopkins’patent, continue to increase in a manner highly complimentary for this new nozzle system. Among the fire departments that have recently received or ordered this system, we find Boston, Fall River, Athol, Quincy, Gardner, Greenfield, and North Attleboro, Mass.; Belfast, Eastport, and Calais, Me.; Pawtucket and Newport, R. I., Canal Dover, O.,Winchester, Ky., Lebanon, Pa.; New Brighton, S. I., Plainfield, N. J., and Walkerville, Ont. A water tower outfit for Detroit, Mich. Also the fitting up with this new system of the Poland Springs hotel, South Poland, Me., The Hartford Cycle Company, Hartford, Conn., the Hey wood Bros. & Company, chair manufacturers of Gardner, Mass, and others. At a trial test of the twenty-second, by the city of Pawtucket, R. I., a solid 2 1-8-inch stream was thrown from a single hydrant fully 300 feet; while at a trial test in Greenfield, Mass., the twenty-fourth, solid perpendicular streams 1 5-8-inch, 1 3-4-inch, and 2-inch in size were easily thrown from one hydrant over a church spire 175 feet above the street level. The great improvement in stream which this system m ikes vas again shown, the twenty-fifth, by the Ayer, Mass., fire department, throwing 1 5-8-inch, 1 3-4 inch, and 2-inch solid stream from one hydrant nearly twice the distance it was possible to throw streams from their nozzles in use. These new outfits are now made mostly of aluminum metal, cast especially for this purpose, and in its compact and light form it is found an indispensable equipment for every fire company, providing streams at any time up to 2 inches and larger in size. The importance of such streams in case of the prospect of a large fire canno: be overestimated and every fire service should be equipped.