The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-20
BELL RANG TWICE.
The Firemen Had Two Lively
Runs Yesterday.
NEITHER FIRE WAS SERIOUS
Pine Street Engine House Completed,
and VIII BE Occupied Today-Notes
From the Department.

There was lively hustiing in the fire de-
partment yesterday afternoon about half
past 8 o'clock, two alarms being turned in
almost simultaneously. Engine Company
No. and Hook and Ladder Company No.
were called out to blazing shanty occu-
pied by Mrs. Pearson, on Depot street. in
North Seattle. The flames were quenched
and the shanty was saved, the damage not
exceeding SIS. The engine attached
to the plug on the corner
of Eagle and Front streets and
did good service, saving several adjoining
shanties. The fire was caused by boys set
ting fire to some drift wood, from which
the flames spread to the shanty.
While the North Seattle apparatus was
on its way to this fire, Engine Company,
No. 2. Chemical, No. 1, and Hook and Lad
der, No. 2, were called out by an alarm
from Grant street bridge. After hard
run the companies returned, the fire being
put out before they arrived. The damage
was nominal.
The new fire engine house on Third and
Pine streets, just completed. will be moved
into tomorrow by Engine Company No. 2,
though the building has not been formally
accepted by the city council. Architects
Saunders & Houghton. for the city, and
Contractor SCHNEIDER, who have had the
construction of the building in hand,
agreed yesterday afternoon to let the fire.
men move in at once, so as to relieve the
crowded condition of the tent at head
quarters.
This building is the third to be completed
of the five engine-houses ordered by the
city several months ago, and it is complete
and perfect in all its arrangements. ltcost
$500, and is 4Ox60 feet in size, two stories
high and is painted dark brown, with Il .
first story of red and trimmed with dark
olive throughout. On the front in raised
characters is as. +. d. Engine No. 2. :"
There is room for an engine and hose
cart in the building and eight men and
four horses. In front of the stalls are
strong doors which are arranged to fly
open the moment the alarm is sounded,
and the front doors go open In re-
Spouse to a movement of the drivers
when they are hitched and ready
to go. Steam heating pipes, both for
warming the building and for keeping up
steam in the boiler of the engine are in,
and three brass poles lead to the second
story. Here is large room for the fire.
men, smoking-room, captains room,
work-room and commodious bathrooms.
In the rear are grain-bins and hay-mow
This building will be, when all connec-
tons are made and everything is running
nicely, the most complete, as TO details. OF
any of the houses. and it is from this house
that the best runs to most of the fires in
the city will be made, as Third street is of
just such grade as the firemen like to
make good time.
Box No. 81, of the fire alarm system at
the corner of Eighth and Lane streets. was
tested yesterday and registered in the en-
gine-houses perfectly.
Engine No. 4 has left the boiler works
and is now in the machine shop. 1t will
be ready for use in week.
The old headquarters on Third and
Columbia streets after this. until the COM
pletion of No. 1 house on Columbia street.
will have only the chemical and the hook
and ladder companies.
The chemical house on Broadway will be
completed in two weeks.