The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-21
OFFICIAL FOLLY.

Germantown Disguised with its Steam
Fire Engine.
The Germantownonians are making merry,
while they cannot conceal their chagrin, over
numbering engine which the Paid Fire Depart
ment Commissioners have located in their
suburb to protect 1t from the ravages of the fire.
fend. Perhaps it never occurred to these gentle
men that for the country roads over which they
will be continually travelling, the steamers for
use on the outskirts of the city should be as
light as possible. They sent to Germantown
looking affair, weighing seven thousand and
four hundred poundsl "This delicate piece of
mechanism" says the Chronicle, sis to be
hauled over the hills of Germantown and
through the muddy roads whenever q fire
occurs, provided the wheels do not sink beneath
their burden" 1t was found that the steamer
was too heavy to be moved into the house by
the ordinary means, and so ropes and pulleys
tugging the heavy apparatus was drawn into the
house of the ex-Fellowship Engine Company.
1t is folly to send such cumbrous, unwieldy af
fairs to be used on unpaved roads.
MAR1NE.-The steamship Tonawanda, Captain
L. ID. Barrett, arrived from Wilmington, N. c.,
at one o'clock this morning. with cargo of
naval stores, lumber, ETC., ffty-flve hours from
port to port. She will resume her place
on the Savannah line and will sail for that port
on Sunday morning next, 23d instant, at A. NJ.
Freight will be received until six o'clock to-
morrow evening. The Pioneer Captain John
Wakely, will sail for Wilmington, N. c., on
Tuesday, 25th Instant, at six A. M.
THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF TRINITY CHURCH
SoUTHwARK.-On next Tuesday, April 25, the
fiftieth anniversary of the laying of the corner
stone of Trinity Church, Southwark, will be
celebrated in the church building on Catharine
street In the morning, at 1O9 o'clock, there
will be service, with sermon, and at s P. NJ.
parish reunion will be held of very interest
ing character, consisting of music, addresses by
clergy and laity, and a historical sketch of the
parish.
INcENDIARY WoRK.-A fire at Chestnut Hill
last night destroyed barn the property of DR..
Kane. The fire was evidently the work of an
ncendiary, as an attempt was also made to burn
down the house of the doctor, also mass of
brushwood had been placed on the portico and
fired. 1t burned portion of the lattice work
structure. The damage to it is Insignificant
The dwelling was not occupied at the time.
LOST BoY.-Some boys last night brought
to the Third District Station House a deaf and
dumb lad, aged ten years, named Jacob Grau.
writing fuently in both German and English
He states that he came recently from Columbus
Ohio in search of his father who is In this
city. The lad Is under the charge of Special
Officer Reeder, at the Mayors Office, where ap
plication can be made.
CoLLIsIoN-On Tuesday night last, between
10 and III o'clock, collision took place at Fiji
teenth and Poplar streets between q car of the
Union line and one of the Thirteenth and Fiji
teenth streets line. A Mr.. Potts who resides
on Twentieth street. above Poplar had severa
of his ribs fractured, and also received severe
internal injuries. Both cars were badly damaged
Another gentleman occupant of the car at the
time Of the accident also received injuries.