The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-06-05
FIRE ENGINES in TEXAS.
Great Times for the Natives When the
Bells Sound the Alarm.

| Great Times for the Natives When ths
Bells Sound the Alarm.
81 Larl1ins, of I'll Paso, Tex, was
standing at the door of the Arlington
talking with a Washington friend q
few days ago, when fire engine and
hook and ladder rushed past with a
great changing of bells en- route to the
fire.
Great spectacle, that,r remarked
the Washington man.
yep. considerable show" responded
the Texan
"Neyer see anything of that sort
down in III i'aso, s'poee?' said the
}Yashinctonien, with a questioning in
Election in his statement.
The Texan turned ard gave his friend
a searching lock, in which pity and
contempt seemed to struggle for the
mastery, and then proceeded to give
him Il Few pointers on fires and fire de
Partlnsnts as he knew them at home.
why snorted Nh. Lallsins, ''if we
couldn't get up better show aad more
enthusiasm than that when d FIRE broke
out in our town we'd let her burn
down and move over into Passo del
NOrte and live in 'Gobes with the
eTeasers. Talk about great spec
,aele!' You'd think it was q universal
panorama If ycu could see the fire de
rartment of III Paeo turn ont once.
why, man, it is counted the greatest
honor Chat man III our town can have
conferred on hiIn to he elected a mem
her OF the fire department. All the best
citizens Belong. When The big bell
strikes sou bet everything else stops
Until that IRE IS put out 1t is the only
occasion when the deal stops at the
faro banks, and when a fire. comes on
Sundays that teachers all dismiss their
congregations with a mighty short
bencdiction and hoof it for the scene
OF the eoafagration.
''rhen you ought 10 see our engine.
She's daisy, and don't you forget it.
Double handles at each side. and room
for four non at each handle. Every
thing painted red and q brass eagle
on the top OF the pump barrel. We
Keep four Spanish mules standin' in the
stable MI the time, harncssed and
ready to pull out at a moments no
tice. Hanl, Tompkins, the driver, is
the slicl5est man in his business in the
whole southwest. When he pulls out
for a fire you can bet your last sinoleon
everything else has got to stand from
under. lie turns the corners 50 fast
that the boys on Red Betsey, as they
call The engine, have to hang on to the
outside curve to keep her from upset |
tin; sometimes she goes clean over,
1ut net often, and it only takes q min |
lte to right her agin. Sometimes the !
9oys do it before Hank gets the mules
o dead stop, and off they go agin.
"Oh! l tell YOU il is grand sight to
zee Hank comm down the street with
is whip a-cracllin' and then two little
1lue leaders just a-standin' on their
lind feet and clawin' out at the air
ike. When he passes it takes half an
lour for the dust to settle where he
vent along. An, then, you ought to
zee the crowds. Why, you never see
nything like it. Men, women and
hildren all turn out to see the bows
icl1 the fire. When they go through
Dobertown Hank mos always runs
yer two or three greaser kids; they're
lways so slow bout gettin' out er the
way. And dogs, oh. Lordi I'll bet I've
cen 400 if there was one all runnin'
n rippin' an barlin' benin Hank
nd the engine. Sometimes Hank runs
yer eight or ten of 'em, but he can't
top for dogs or nuthin' else for that
natter.
Say, pard, deed you never have seen
fire turnout in this town, if that
hich just went by is a sample."-
Washington Star.
Women on Wheels in War.
One of London's daily papers recently
ublished q letter signed: "a Colonel's :
Wife," in which The proposition is made
] all seeming seriousness that should
he prophecies of continental combina-
ions against England be realized, the
uties of the army in the rear may be
by lady cyclist orderlies.
he colonel's wife announces herself
prepared to assist in the organization
lady cyclist corps, to help resist
ur many enemies" Womanllind has
o means of knowing how England
i'll receive such proposition, but in T
merica, for the most part, woman is t
illing to let man, the devil, and "
ynamite do the killing, and she busics
erself in caring for the wounded, or
sending Clara Barton to rescue
lie oppressed deserted by civilization.
-Womankind.
Rhode Island contains large num-
r of inventive geniuses, the proper
on being one inventor to every 1853