The daily gazette., 1881-06-30
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A Highly satisfactory Test, last
Evening. iFt

Evening.
Last night the fire alarm telegraph
spstem of this city was given practical
test, thai, resulted In . manner that ex-
ceeded The expectation OF the most san
guine friends Of the system. The ieca-
lion Of the box from which the alarm,
was 10 be s0andedi was 10 be kept q
profound secret from the various COM
pauies but ell ths hremen were swars
that there was 10 be Q test alarm sU!ne
time during the evening. There wss
big attendance Ut all the engine bous-
es and the boys kept in readiness 10.
jump at the first tap Of tha gong.
Members OF City Council assembled
At the City Hall about nine O'Clock,
and latsr, were escorted privately in
small squads, to the box aelected for the
test alarm. The ai1alr wss delayed m
hour sufficiently late to allpw time to
get all the children out of 1.-THE streets,
and early enough to be ovfs before the
audience at the Opera House dispersed.
l. At three minutes past tes, o'clock box
"a, Fourth snd Madison a.. sets ,yrs Op-
ened, and to Counciiman Eews Pxyn-
ter was given the honor of Lwiiding In
the first alarm. Mr.. Payntsypulled the
projecting key once, aud AySutly the
alarm was sounded In sigbs = engine
house, while the City HsI It'll rang out
Its sonorous tones iuiormin! the public
BY Its three-four taps, ltfst the alarm
had been sent in rfrom boz "a.
Eve y Ere company iu h, S. .,..S. star
ted at once for Fourth and iison
streets. Tho Weccacoe being nearest,
arrived first, the carriage getting tiere
In just four minutes from the tap OF tha
gong, and the steamer, one minute lat
or. In smother minute 9bst Delaware,
Water Witch and Fame carriages arr
ed close together, the. former being
on the lead. Next cane The Water
| Witch engine, followed tr,mediatsly by
the Washington hose carriage and the
Friendship steamer, IN tie order named.
The Fame and Washington steamers
came dAsbing up almost neck aud beek,
aud the next arrivals wete tAs- Ra,isace
and Friendship carriagess The Pboenix
steamer, having BY far the longest Iun,
came in last, but 1t was there In a frac-
tlon less than nine minutes from the
sounding Of the alarm.
before the apparatus was all in o great
crowd bad collected in the vicinity, and
hearty cheering following the announce
inent tIat the test had proved perfect
success. The firemen proved their Ell
cheney by responding 30 promptly, and
all are entitled TO equal credit for thell
activity ff-iiJ
The arrival of 90 mary steamers and
hose carriages at q given peint, ct almost
The same time Of course cansed consider.
able confusion, and many at once saw
the wisdom Of dividing the city Into
two districts, now Ith at all the compan-
les can be promptly, aud at the sam,
time notified by an alarm, and know ex
actly where TO 20 In response.
Ohairman Blake audfh other mem
bsrs OF the Fire ComBhlttee, and Uhic
Engineer ,TaxeWell, fs'ies Fire ID tpart
inent wefe- dellghtsd asethe c5f3pie.
success Of the teat. 1t worked Just a
its projectors claimed 1t would, and al
hands are satisned.
While the companies were arriving
man named Charles Borden, o membe
OF the Washington, was struck by tn
tongue of the Reliance carriage and Sc
verely bruised.
ANOTHER TEST.
As some few person claimed that TIL
hall bell did not sound the alarm cor
rectly, last night, another test was give
. from box "a at 1881 O'Clock, this morn
ing to which the bell and all the gong
promptly and correctly answered. Th
department was previously notified no
to respond to this alarm.
. +a THE SYSTEM IN USE.
To-day the signal box keys are be
ing distributed, and after 10 o'cloc
tonight the FIRE alarm telegraph sy,
tenn is TO be used IN sounding alarm