The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-22
FRIGHTENED EN- OFF
The Audience Was Too Large, So the
Firemen Didn't Show.
AN EXHIBITION PLANNED
II Was Intended to Practice With
the Pompier Ladders, But the
Engagement Was Cancelled-
Testing the Hydrants.
AN EXHIBITION PLANNED

The announcement in yesterday
mornings Standard that the fire de-
partment would practice with the POM
pier ladders on the city hall at
o'clock yesterday afternoon, drew out
an audience of more than 200 people,
who waited patiently for an hour or
more for the promised performance TO
commence. The size of the crowd,
however. frightened the firemen of as
they were afraid of doing their first
work of that style before such large
gathering for fear that their initial ef-
forts would be guyed and laughed at.
Although the Pompier ladders are
among the most valuable pieces of APP
paratus that are owned by the depart
ment and are particularly useful in
rescuing people from burning buildings
or scaling walls, they were never used
even for practice until Alderman
Schatzlein took charge of the depart
ment. Mr.. Schatzlein proposes that the
firemen shall become proficient in the
use of every piece of apparatus that is
owned by the city, and he is not partic-
ularly anxious to have their first efforts
witnessed by a crowd which, not I'M
| derstanding the conditions, might be
| disposed to poke fun at the boys for
| their crudeness. When the acting chief
| surveyed the crowd in front of the Cen
| trail station at the practice hour yes
|
| too much of an audience for we anna
Tours" and forthwith changed the pro-
gramme.
| The hose wagon crew drove out to the
| High school grounds and tested the big
deluge nozzle. Three lines of hose run
| to the deluge nozzle and run into five-
| inch pipe through which they are forced
into an inch and quarter nozzle CIV
ing a single stream of terrific force
| The three hydrants with which connec-
tons were made showed a pressure OF
| 80 pounds, and a solid stream was
thrown clean over the 104 foot flag
staff in front of the school. A soliC
stream was then thrown straight away
more than $50 feet and the test wa:
very satisfactory.
Seven hydrants were tested yesterda,
forenoon and there was only one in tn,
lot which registered pressure enough t
make 1t worth anything in case of fire
The plugs which were tested and thei
pressure were as follows: Mercur,
and Jackson streets, As pounds: Jack
son and Silver, As; Washington ant
Silver, so; Washington and Porphyry
So; Washington and Mercury. 40
Jackson and Galena, 10; Broadway AM
Washington, IS. Acting Chief Schatz
lein states that none of the hydrant
with the exception OF the one at Broad
way and Washington, would hav
thrown a stream that would be effec
tive in the second story of a burnin
building, and that the streams fror
some of them would hardly have bee
strong enough to break the secon
story windows. Any pressure, he say:
less than 20 pounds is of no valuatio
at fire of any magnitude. While
: 10-pound pressure is given to the plu
v at Jackson and Galena streets, tn
] stream there was not strong enough
push the indicator on the gauge up I
D the five-pound notch. The fire depart
: ment gauge, however, registers littl
: below the actual pressure and a II
pound pressure was given the hydrar
), by way of courtesy