Show Pioneer Fire ire Truck ruc in In Year e o t 0 o o- e Early Auto Apparatus Still in Use Usel Total ruin to hundreds of Salt SaIt Lake dwellings has been prevented in the past thirteen years b hy by men and apparatus apparatus apparatus ap ap- carried on this truck I M s 4 M Veteran Machine One of First to Replace Horse Drawn Apparatus Overhauled and Still Doing Duty at North Side Station With a new coat of paint its engine overhauled and a general tightening up one of the first pieces of pro motor fire apparatus to replace horse-drawn horse apparatus in the city is beginning its fourte fourteenth nth year of service The machine I has traveled close dose to miles during during- its service of thirteen years and Is now stationed at No 4 engine house on I street between Fourth and Fifth Filth avenues The ap apparatus apparatus apparatus ap- ap api i I was purchased In 1912 I I For the past seven years It has been located at No 4 station re reI responding responding re- re I to all alarms in the vicinIty vicinity vicinity vicin vicin- ity of the northeast bench This Is Isby regarded by the fire department of officials officials officials of- of as the section of ot the city of offerIng offering offering of- of fering the hardest service to fire apparatus ap ap- ap- ap because because of the steep grades on the avenues During the first six years' years service after its purchase this truck was stationed at No 1 or central head head head- quarters It was then regarded as the pride of the department and on the occasion of ot each alarm In the bu business district it was referred to proudly as an indication of Salt I Lakes Lake's gro growth th Gradually propelled motor pieces of apparatus were added to the de department department department de- de and the horses left the station houses in all parts of ot the i I I I I city to browse In green Arcen fields or beI be I auctioned ot off to the highest t bidder of a gro group p of drayage dravage company buy buy- ers Now the city owns fire trucks i almost twice as powerful but none will climb hills or perform capacity I service more steadily or surely than the veteran of ot the modernized group I Several hundred dollars were re recently recently re- re I spent by Fire Chief Walter I S. S Knight in having this truck re repaired repaired re- re paired and overhauled At that time Ume re-I re Its service record was wasp carefully checked and revealed that It had been out of service for repairs less than 1 per per cent of ot the thirteen years It has been in use During 1924 the truck traveled miles to and from fires tIres consumed gallons of gasoline and seventeen en quarts of oil Compared with the service record record record rec rec- ord ord of the average automobile on the street these figures mean nothing noth noth- In ing firemen say but when applied I to a fire truck subject to the hardest hardest hardest hard hard- est treatment possible they como come close to establishing a 8 record |