Show ate steam am fire engine 1 the cincinnati 1 team steam fire angine was publicly tried rr a on oil the 1 ast 1st st instant and tie the vest seat me engine in the city was brought out strongly stion gly maimed ned to compete with it in ten minutes the steam I 1 wits was I 1 up iid and the engine in in operation the firemen went to work with the 0 ordinary ordin aay engine bonfi conn dent of af beating the newfangled affair the signal was giyen given puff went the steam engine and away skirted the water tile firemen bore down and up in quick succession and strained every nerve hut but gave up exhausted the steam engine continued unceasingly for halt half an hour flour to throw a vast body in a solid stream of two hundred and twenty four feet it then threw two streams of I 1 water for half an hou bouc longer to show its power to keep up steam and finally to prove that fire may be extinguished in confined places by steam ilone alone without deluging a building with water A section of in india jubber hose was attached to the boiler and steam passed oft off through it it sent nent forth a vast of stream sufficient to saturate the air and penetrate ene into every crevice crevice where fire could possibly if lodge a ae I 1 co completely tely extinguishing fire the machine ran up hill down hill and was perfectly manageable in every respect A few engines of this kind in philadelphia with half a dozen men to attend them would d do as much service as our sixty fire engines and hoses with six or eight thousand firemen to attend them I 1 |