The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-09-08
Brooklyn City News.

TRIAL OF STEAM FnsE ESGrSx VICTORY. -Yesterday a.
tenoon she steam fire engine Victory No. 10, ~as
neo With eminent SUCCESS, IN roat Of the City Hall, be-
fore large number Of citizens Il had been announced
that tho trial would at three O'clock but
y hour elapsed while people kept waiting and
many went away under he impression that some stera
or had been made In the ents and that tho trial
would not OF at all At about quarter to four
O'Clock the Victory, attended BIZ Mr. Thomas Doyle, tho
Foreman Of the Company, ~. james r. Farrell sscre-
tary and about forty shirts entered the
Of the City Hall, and stationed between the
building and the fountain The beautiful machine imme-
datey became theme for the admiration OF the lockers
on especially happened be that
description Of mechanism, there certain PECULIAR
tres In the Victory worthy OF noe II constructed by
Messrs Taylor, Campbell Co Of Brooklyn, ., cost OF
So 600 for certain OF the principal residents OF Bedford
avenue OF the at select thoroughes in Booklyn
Who presented u 70 the very respectable bod. OF
Bremen comprising No. ID 10 build II n some
what like q piano box, neck englne, and
capable Of projecting three streams OF water on Ore II
getting up steam 10 taking suction from the hydrant
stream Of water be Put Immediately through the
gHe till the steam 10 quite up.
vantage IN working with borrowed suction, which was
quite weak and eaky, in consciousness OF which the
engine could nos be worked At It's full pressure II
agreed all hands that II the full power ne put
on the would have burst. still the working
very credable From the rst application Of the match
elapsed, aud in two minutes stream OF water be
gan 10 pour through one inch and half nozzle, first
the pcoiment OF the City Halls facade then
petey the liberty pole surmourtng the facade
SECOND trial succeeded Ia washing the face OF the statue Of
Justice IN mathematical publication of marked sgnn
The etesm Of water nearly knocked the scales
Of the blind eoddesss hand, out, fortunately, ths
wind was contrary, and blew the spray from
the stream back into the faces OF the are
and the assembled crowd. third trial succeeded
stin better, while fourth, with nozzle OF ono aud
quarter inches, threw stream about hundred and
sixty feet In height and would have thrown complete
~ the cupoa OF the City HALL IL not that the
wind directly In the teeth Of the remea and their
apparatus AZ . proof Of this, the window IL the ben
tower, which was opened At the commencement, and
through which number Of persons gazing the
below haa be closed ct almost every trial
nom the SECOND to the asst After number OF hxLy
satisfactory trials, The Victory conveyed homo 1t
about haipas i've O'Clock BY the euthus sstc nremeo
attached 20 her The general impression II that when
abe has been worked fsw tmeG more and her machins
~ begins sackeued somewhat, wiil be OF
the crnck enenee-n Metropolitan district ct least
10 ought BE- rcnarked that she hes but eight inch
pump, while hand engines have esch not less
than two pumps o that size She present AZ IRE 10
oil factory sunday last, when she hal steam
twenty minutes and contributed 70 the ssvink OF tho
premises. lumber yard w1s 81 one time threat
ened, and II u believed that Il had caught,
the steam engine would have saved IL from destruction