New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-07
4 MODERN FIRE TRUCK.

"You take one or them trucks like that In
old times aud they'd maize old Hanneebull and Alec an
the rest on EN- hump said Assistant Foreman
uurry a stout JoviallOOking fireman. with round
e,pper-colored face, tint seemed to glow Vucanhke
from tae many fires that hal scOrehed and blstered IT,
All tina ocn.togn trucks Is fitted up in the most ap
nroyed scIen c fashionyOa know what that is'Cause
vy they has TO be- but Fnons. No TO- will hold tue
capll- beside any OF 'em. and wen me and Foreman
Dvyer l., on behind with half dozen OF the boys. We
90 awhoopn'." lie rolled up his rotund figure aud
naeed 70 and fro several times with rOlncking swagger
and triumphant look
"what DO we DO with all them things. young feler'
We'll II YOU are n Newspaper man, guess | tell ye
something about the equipment. For instance, don't
suppose you there's three or four trucks III the de-
pattmeut a. carTy's full sci OF burglars toolsi
IT'S II fact, though | never saw It mentioned IN tho
papers and we don't show em TO everybody; cause
wy 'tau't our business you Here's the tools. We
call EN- ForcDle Entry tools sounds better They're
bigger than the regular BURGLARS kit ost three times
the size cause It's Tor our work But they're
made lest after pattern Of them tools what was foud
at the Manhattan Ba TX rObbery and said 10 be the best
ever made Ours would be rather heavy for BURGLAR
10 carry round That's jimmy in three sectlonshne
niece of steel aintitl You rip open an iron ceIler
door with It, Ike you'd open UPSTREAM that smaller
,nes straight Jimmy. and there's rivet cutter three
naus or sledgcs lock breaker aud that there inno-
cent little arran gemeat IA door forceE can plant
that I'm front OF tue locked door in NewYork and III
bet cher I'll bust 1t open inside err tive mins. That's
prilne invention and MS with the leverage you
can get a force equal TO 2 900 pounds on door"
.What kind OI an instrument is thati" asked the
prter pointing what looked though might be tho
warcluD OF one Of GulYer's giants.
.'Tbots the Bstteriu Ram it's allus kept right
der the middle Of the truck ifs capped with heavy
iron Wen ban dozen OF the boys gts hold OF it and
dives IT a swing it'l make impression stone Pm
tellIa We DO We think Hannerbu could beat that
sometimes We to cut right through party wall
that's two or three foot thick 10 get at hre In an adj
Joining buildng nave four OF those heavy picks. aud
the crowbar you see make place for tue 10 butt
agin. And we carry two shOVels, four common axes
aud dozen books from six foot to twenty-five foot Long
bcs,des four hay forks and four cotton hooks that often
come in handy with the rags and small articles. Under
these you see couple Of fire eIiingushers and them
tner two tanks oxygen ana hydrogen for the calcium
hghts We have em often Of a dark night to light
up Ynu see, trUcknan has 90 have some brains aud
science TO handle NIL these things Jest wen tney'r
wanted Them red lights we use wen theys fire along
time carry couple Of rel flags"
You carry "a Inc Of hose too on the truck |"
pressure close worG the regular hose IL IN inch
smaller You that piece OF brass fastened under the
mg ladder lrs wnat we cal. 'Siamese Connection.
-Four common from different engines enters one
sinc and one dig hose attached to the other In
way we can get pressure Of 800 pounds II the pipe III
stand IT, aud throw stream over Tue o9gest DulldnS
40 IL one the lines stops playing 10 makes differ
ence. We cal The ATTACHMENT that's on the engine pipe
a ma butt' and tue is fastened to 1t from
the hose 'iemaie-butt,' so as TO prevent Goa
fusion. The Siamcse has male-bJu' and
female burt; taat's the way gets its name.
YOU zee. Tnat long crooked iron pipe is To let down
into cellar or a room the men can't get
count OF heat and that other big brass nozzle has
dstribuer attached tue force OF the water whirs tine
faucet around and sends heavy spray that drives
back the smoke. There's OF the sealing ladders
o. the Late Corps. We have Two OF the corps on our
UTICA now"
WHAT do you think OF this ladder I"
"Irs goo1 thing guess especially IN close places
here we can't get up long Ladder. often happens
between buildings where there's only i've ten
feet OF space We have extension LADDER that's
seventy long, oneiorty five foot ladder thirty
FIVE Glde LADDERS, tnrsyfoOt, twenty five,
twenty and a teufoot ladder on the truck"
''Is that all You carry on tie truckf"
Well guess that's about ALL rept II Is the roof hooks
and tue rOIea Foreman Dryer and the boys;
sometimes Chief Rowe jumps TO- fun and We goes
hoopin Ia fashion WOulI take the starch out Han
neebdl, Alec all their e.ephaus-Lo0k out there.
young fee step asde there's The geDs and the hosses
Is comm"
Yesterday n young man was round town
He trying deter