Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-27
Little Giant Arrived.

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IN the history of the Carson fire depart
Iaent. There are few old croakers anG
stand-stills, fossils of the period vlei
they used to pass FIRE buckets along q
line extending from the well and up lad
ders to the house roof, who think "they
don't want any steam engine in theirs. -
The community almost universally. how
ever, are awake to the Importance OF
having fire squelcher OF the new in
vention which
NEVER GETS TIRED.
So that at II 80, sharp. large crowd
had assembled at the freight depot of
the Virginia & Truckee Railroad to wei
come the Little Giant to her future
sphere of usefulness. Enthusiastic fire
lnen moved about her as if inspired by a
sort of reverence for her superior
prowess; cold blooied non fremen
looked on from distance in silent adj
miration: while the small boys and In
tiians were irrepressible AMI crawled all
over her. When the dray, drawn by two
powerful ConastoSas, was hitcheJ on
70 the engine the drayman had to raise
out " about five hundred urchins before
he could bulge. The concourse of peo-
pie hanging on, strolling along on the
sidewalk, and bringing up the immedi-
ate rear midway Of the street, formed
TEICMPEAL MARCH.
The machine was rolled down town and
in a shed in Lewis & Thoring-
Ton S back yard, where it underwent the
inspection OF, and was praised for its
nv f,I- of l.
procession, who kept coming and going
until they all had seen the sight. A
crowd of volunteers went to work imme-
iiately after she was placed and with
itching, unbidden fingers took off her
paper and oilcloth packings, at each step
# which process new and more striking
features of the steamers magnificence |
we're unfolded to view. She was finally |
lnclothed and
''PUT UP''
5y Billy cassie and William Shear, en-
'ineers and machinists of the Carson
Tint. A more elegant and mastery
,iece of mechanical art was probably
lever produced before Her filings,
tc., are too numerous to mention and
urpass our powers ill that sort of de-
cription. She is rotary engine mann
actured by the Selby Manufacturing
'ompany,
SENECA FALLS, n. T.,
t cost of 81. 500 in greenbacks. Fiji
cen hundred feet of carbolized hose
-ere received with her which cost $50,
lso in greenbacks. The cost of trans
ortation by rail is given as S640 which
considered either US .
MISTAKE OR OUTRAGE.
.ngines and hose received in Virginia
nd Gold Hill, weighing nearly as much,
ave been delivered for hall the price,
ken in giving US TIE figures for the {
atement. The Little Giant is provided {
it'll double radius wheels the spokes of
hich diverge from the rim and are
stened to the axle in parallel circles s
,oUt twelve inches apart. The hind i
heels are five and half feet in dia- {
eter and the fore wheels four feet two '
ches. When ready for use at a fire, ]
divided with a supply of fuel and water i
he weighs 3, 800 pounds. She will r
RUN EASILY t
u can be rushed to fire with as little r
penditure of muscle as is required to +
ag either OF the hand engines. She is h
med with twenty feet of first class u
elton hoZe and five nozzles ranging
On the three quarter to the one and
e-eighth nozzle. She viii be cleaned .
It thoroughly and tested within few ,,
VS.; and then if she proves satisfactory +
all points the money =
TO PAY FOE HER l.
lis due. 1t will be seen by summing u
the various items involved in the e
rehase and transportation of the Lit Il
Giant and placing the same opposite "
E $4,000 subscribed, but hardly more y. IL
IN half paid in, that Il
MORE MONEY %
needed to foot the bill. The money | l,
eady subscribed. at any rate, must be CT
id in and banded over to the manu-
turers who have dispatched for their -,
Y supposing the engine to have been u
eived and tested long ago. The col tt
tors, who have already neglected their St
n business many day in the inter IN
S of the public and this engine, will u
around again. to-day, and will be put al
no longer with promises of future IN
yment. "