The Portland daily press., 1890-04-24
the FIRE ENGINE TRIAL.
Each Engine. May BE Said to Have
Gained Honors.

The exhibition of fire apparatus took place ON
the Grand Trunk wharf yesterday afternoon and
was, all things considered, a success. At about
2. 30 the engines were in place and the ropes in
positlon 10 Keep the crowd back. The engines
were ranged as follows down the wharf Wene
moVet NO. ., Clapp Jones, Porter Hermanns
engineer L. IL. Williams, engineman of No.
= stokre, W. 5. Fuller II. Is. Fuller, Louis
OasteIe' Z. f. Scribner, pipemen, A, f. Griffin,
captain oi Engine No. A, in charge; Engine No.
o. AnosKeag, Alfred Wiggin, engineer, A. II.
Lehman, stoker. S. NJ. Reid, Theodore Morrill,,
samuel w. Joy, pipemen, NJ. n. Eldredge, cap
tam IN charge; Engine No. 2, Silsby, Warren c.
Lorlng, engineer, A. ii. Fowler, stoker, L. Wal
lace, L. Wallace, j. M. Parker +. S. Smith, pipe
men, George A. Dow, captain in charge; spare
engine. Portland Company make, johnson pat
tern, Charles p. French engineer, Jos. II. De-
lance, stoker, III. G. Rowe, p. Ii. Silva, A. l..
johnson, G. A. Stckney, pipemen, Captain John
b. Brown of Engine No. 5, in charge. The en-
gines were placed all in readiness, the torches
lighted, and at the word go the fires started.
cloud OF smoke poured out of No. Us stack fist,
but the three others quickly followed. The sec
Onds grew into minutes and the minutes added
one TO another. The smoke poured out of the
stacks and the fires roared, but no steam was
ouONh ny bhS SduSSo' n lopC udu DcCH strung
across the dock 100 feet from the shore, and the
first test to who could put the first stream
over it. The Silbys gauge soon showed 10
pounds. Then the two other pretty machines be-
gan to steam, but 1t remained for the old relief
engine to discount them all and get the first water
in five and one-half minutes. The stream squirt
ed jumped across the line, fell back, jumped over
again and stayed there. No. 3 soon had water
and almost Immediately her stream stretched out
well over the line and stayed over throughout the
trial. No. had the next stream and it was a
good one, trife heavier than No. 3's, but not
reaching quite so far although well over the line.
NO. started last and her stream was feeble, not
reaching anywhere near the line. 1t was discoy-
cred, however, that the outlet gate on the engine
was partly shut. When this was opened there
was an improvement noted at once. All of the
engines played through 200 feet of hose with one
and one-quarter inch nozzes.
The new engine displayed remarkable steaming
powers, being up to $50 pounds in nine minutes
from the start.
The second test was in filling the logo gallon
tank that was used on Fast Day. Each engine
filled it in turn from two streams without nozzles
hme was as follows: No. 6, 20 seconds; No.
8, 80 seconds; No. 2, $50 seconds; relief engine,
l92 seconds. II must be remembered in consid-
ering this exhibit that the relief is single pump,
horizontal machine, while the others are double.
The third exhibition was made by the Hayes
truck. The lower ladder was extended straight
up and No. 2's line sent up. Then the ladder
was run to its fun length, and Mr.. p. C. Melody
went up to the dizzy height and smiled down up
on the crowd.
The last test of the day was that of the new en-
CINE playing through two inch nozzle. The
stream-solid WATERWAYS sent 300 feet down the
wharf scattering the small boys like chaf
The exhibition was witnessed by a large num-
Der OF citizens and Merchants Week visitors and
pleased everybody, even those who made close
acquaintance with sparks and salt water.