Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-18
CONTRACT CLOSED FOR SIX.
CYLINDER, sIxTY.HoRsE POW
Err MACHINE TO COST $4,s5o.
PENSION FUNDS WILL
TAKE $500 OF BONDS
City to Pay Cash for Fire Truck-Will
Turn Per. Cent Bonds Into Pen
sion Funds, and Take Purehass Price
From Them-New Truck to Have
Some Special Equipment.

A six cylinder. siXty-horse power,
combined hose and chemical kissel kar
| fire truck, fully equipped, and with
some special equipment, was ordered
by the council Monday afternoon. The
price to be paid in cash is s4,950, which
is the same price that was paid two
years ago for a smaller truck of the
same make.
According to the contract which the
council authorized the mayor and clerk
/ to sign, the truck will be delivered
within seventy days. The price is f. o.
b. this city.
Pension Funds Take Bonds.
| The money to pay cash for the truck
will come from the policemen's and
firemen's pension funds The issue of
! 1900 worth of ; per cent fire depart
ment bonds. which the council author
ICED to be issued TO pay for this new
fire equipment and other equipment Of
the department. will take the bonds.
| These funds have been accommodating
and no payments have ever been made
out of them. The money has been
drawing per cent interest, and the
council members thinks it good busi-
ness to turn the bonds over to these
! funds and pay in to the funds the 5
per cent interest, instead of TO some
outside firm or person. The bonds
! mature at the rate of $4,000 a year,
beginning with 1915. II Of them mature
| in 1919.
New Truck is Larger.
Altho similar in many ways the new
| trl1ck iS nd lar
machine than the old one, which has a
four cylinder engine. The new truck
will have steel body and some spec;cc.
equipment.
Its equipment will consist of electric
| headlights and searchlight, electric
starter. and siren. Its scaling equip
| ment will consist of two thirty-foot
! extension ladders, g sfxteen-foot roof
| ladder, and an eight and twelve foot
| ladder. It's chemical equipment will
consist Of one thirty-dve gallon sta
tionary chemical tank which the city
will furnish, and two hve- gallon hand
=! tanks. The larger tank will be taken
from. the south side hose wagon.
Chief L T. Kirby will go to Chicago
| soon to specify tn-detatl the special
equipment He said tho council would
later have to- determine at which sta
ton the new truck would be kept.
Not to Consider Pumping Truck.
| After looking into the question of a
truck equipped with an auxiliary water
pump to give greater pressure than
! the city pressure, the council gave UP
the idea of such a truck. Councilman
| Dorr Lamb said he expressed the opin-
| ion of the councilmen when he said
that reliable statistics Of performances
| Of such trucks showed. that they had
not yet been Perfected to the point
where hey were absolutely reliable.
| Regarding the question of pressure,
and how much of it there would be If
the department were called on to fight
| a fire in high building, Chief Kirby
and the council are confident the city
pumping station furnishes ample pres
sure for greater height than is reached
by any building in the city. To estab-
! lish the point the council and depart
ment offers to demonstrate by carrying
a line of hose to the roof Of the Ma
| sonic temple. if there is any demand
| for such demonstration and the ar
| rangements for it can be made.