Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-06-15
the MARVELLOUS CELEBRITY
Attained ~ the Men and Machinery
81 shs Fire Department.


tC3r. Texas Sitting
When TIE policeman sounded the
alarm, the IRE station was wrapped in
slumbsr, srd in darkness, save for one
lamp owe, the foreman's desk. The
horses were dreaming in their stalls !;
and the heavy breathing ofthe slsepers
overhead could be heard below.
mingling with the faint sound of the
wsser circulating in the boiler of the
engine. Suddenly the alarm sounds
-, 8, y" counts the man on duty,
iotting the call down on his book o. the
big gong repeats the summons from
police headquarters, while the ticker
prints il OF in dashes on the tape.
At the first stroke Of the ball the whole
building starts into life and light-the
same current that rang the alarm
turned on the electric lights, and re-
leased the horses, who trot out of their
own accord and take their places on
Zach side Of the engine pole, and be-
tween the shafts Of the horss-cart; the
iremen, half awake. are sliding down
brass rods and clambering into their
places; chuck Of string has released
the harness over the horses' backs, and
the collars are snapped on by the watch
nan-snd In sixAnd-a-half seconds
from the first clang Of The bell, the
doors are thrown open, and the whole
csvalcade 10 carssFing toward the fire.
Now Lot ~ zee how this marvellous
celebrity 10 attained. In the Cellar be-
meath the engine b . large stove, in.
side which Is coiled an iron tube, the
ends OF which pass through the floor
above, and connect with the boiler Of
the engine. The cold water passes down
through one end Of the tube, is heated
through the coil. and ascends through
the other end into the boiler. This circu.
lation 10 constantly going on. and per.
mits . steam pressure Of twenty-five
to thirty:pounds 10 b increasingly kept
up. When the alarm comes,
the engineer presses . lever, the
tubes drop from the boiler, and 0
torch 10 thrust into the fire, which II
ready built in the furnace. The dor.
mitory, containing eight beds, and the
officers room, with beds for the captain
and assistant foreman, are on the floor
above the engine. When the alarm
sounds, and the electric lamps spring
into light, the men Jump up and into
their boots and trousers. which are 10
arranged that both can DO put on ut
one time and two motions. Then they
grasp the brass rods. which como up
through trap-doors in the floor, and
down they fash into the sngine-room,
nd spring into their places in less time
than We can write the fact.
10 be good fireman requires Iervs.
strength. athletic training, sobriety,
quick and cool Judgment, unhinching
courage, and that amount Of reckless.
ness, or readiness, TO take chances"
wsich 10 commonly known - daring.
railors make good Arsmsn, and 20, We
imagine, should bricklsyers and sisters.
The fireman's work u hard and danger.
ous, and hs Ia not too well paid. Every
time hs goes out 10 save property and
LIE, he carries his own lie Ia his
hands. II b escapes accident, be hes
IN sScsllsnt chanoe OF contracting
shsunstism OF pulmonary disease. We
have seea msa helding Ne hose q 0
Ore, almost scorehsd q The fsoe ed
breast, end ths spFsy forming Suisass
Of ies upoa ths bssk.