The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-06-10
HUMANES FAVOR
THE ROBINSON
Company Makes Decision After
Seeing Auto Pumping Engines.

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Humane Engine company at meet
ing Thursday evening voted in favor
of the Robinson automobile pumping
engine and the company's committee
will recommend that apparatus to be
purchased by the board Of aldermen
for the company. The company con-
tributed $1,000 towards the cost of
the machine, $S,400, and the fire com
mittee of the aldermen left the selec-
ton of the particular make of ma
chine with the company.
The demonstration car has been in
town all this week, stored in the
house of Resolute Hook and Ladder
company. Tomorrow the machine
will leave and will be taken to
Roselle and New Brunswick for tests.
The contracts for the automobile
hose wagons for Washington Engine
company and First Ward Hose COM
pany We're signed this week by Mayor
John ]. Todd and Town Clerk Henry
f. Dempsey. The machines are to
be delivered within ninety working
days and are expected here in time
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partment in October
The Robinson machine was tested
on Wednesday afternoon and made
the best showing of any of the auto
pumping engines that have been
tested out here. The machine is a
six-cylinder six and one-quarter bore
and six and three-quarters inch stroke
fitted with a piston pump, the same
as is on steam fire engines and the
only auto pumping engine that has
come here with piston pump. The
machine has rated capacity of 900
gallons of water per minute at 120
pounds net pump pressure. It's horse
power, according to its A. l.. A. M.
rating is 1876, but by brake test it
is 122
The machine was first taken to
Burnham park where it drew water
from the upper pond. Its engineer,
w. G. Olive, of st. Louis, caused sur
prise to the onlookers by walking
away from the pumping engine after
he had started it and watching the
water being thrown, in direct con-
trast to the actions of some of the
engineers in charge of previous en-
gines shown here who would hover
over their machines with a wrench
in one hand and an oil can in the
other ready for any mishap.
The first test was by means of
three 1O0-foot lines with two rs
inch nozzles with a pressure of 58
pounds and one 11a inch nozzle with
a pressure of 32 pounds, the engine
throwing a total of 947 gallons of
water per minute with so pounds
pressure on the pump
The next test was through the
same three lines of hose but three
L Is inch nozzles were used, giving
nozzle pressures of S5, 8S and SO re-
spectively, 1,046 gallons of water with
pump pressure of 110 pounds. Two
of the nozzles were of the choke
type and one smooth bore.
Forcing the water through 1000
feet OF hose at pressure at the
pump of $50 pounds proved disastrous
for the hose for two lengths burst
SO that the test was for line 900
feet in length. A rs inch nozzle was
used and nozzle pressure of 70
pounds developed the water thrown
amounting to 325 gallons. The only
other engine to come near this was
the Mott which threw 292 gallons of
water through 1000 feet of hose with
a nozzle pressure of forty pounds
and pump pressure of 245 pounds.
Then the engine was brought to
the hydrant corner of Morris street
and Dumont place and the streams
turned into the post office lot. The
Methodist Episcopal church trustees
forbid the further use of their steeple
for exhibition purposes and the fire
men contented themselves with shoot
ing stream up in the air many
feet above the steeple.
Through two. 100-foot lines siamesed
into one fifty-foot line with a 1%
inch nozzle the Robinson engine
pumped 63S gallons of water per min
ute with a nozzle pressure of 130
and pump pressure of 1870 pounds.
These two streams went far above
the church steeple and were di-
rected from lower ground than the
Mott streams.
Through the same lines but using
a IL inch smooth bore nozzle the
water was forced at the rate of 604
gallons per minute with nozzle pres
sure of eighty-two pounds and
pump pressure of 175 pounds.
The last test was the use of three
250-foot lines with 1b inch nozzles.
The pressure at the nozzle was
eighty-three pounds each and at the
pump 140 pounds forcing water at
the rate of 1920 gallons per min
ute.
There were many firemen from
other places in the crowd who
watched the tests among them being
Chief Bowker, of Passaic; Chief
Harry Francis, of New Brunswick;
Chief Joseph G. Schuler, Chairman
A. G. Laning and Councilman James
Mundy, of the fire committee, all of
Wilkes-Barre; Chief R. j. Wilson,
Chairman of Fire Committee P. L..
Ughetta and Councilman Amos H.
Shangle, all of Roselle; Chairman of
the Fire Committee Endress and