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Show AUTO POB SAXVAOB COBPS." If the present plans bear fruit the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Underwriters' Salvage corps will soon be dashing to fires in an automobile, or motor-wagon, says (he Cincinnati Inquirer. In-quirer. For some time past the possibilities possibili-ties of using; motor wagons to hsul the 8alvage corps and their tarpaulins to nres, has been considered by Capt. Conway Con-way and the underwriters, and ft )s he-lleved he-lleved to ' be feasible. ' Toward securing them Capt Conway has had plana made of the style of car. or wagon, that will be necessary, and he la now Investigating the various motors and gearings with a view to finding something which will suit the style of car he wants. , - Yesterday he dropped into the Cincinnati Cincin-nati Automobile . company's ware rooms and examined the motors and cars there at the invitation ef F. F. Bradley of that company. Capt. Conway waa shown all the various styles of ( motors and explained ex-plained their qualities He was greatly -encouraged In his scheme by what he saw. ' . . -Mr. Bradley said last night that a car auch as the Salvage Corps would need would require a forty or fifty horse-powea motor. Gasoline would be preferable, he said, as the long hill would exhaust elec-trio elec-trio batteries. He said he haa Just re-) turned from Los Angeles, Cel., where he found the automobile used by the Merchants Mer-chants Fire department there, as a notification noti-fication wagon, "which Is sent after' the owners of buildings which may be on fire. . He declared that a Salvage corps wagon could make the run up Gilbert avenue- at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, and that fire chiefs in automobiles could reach any fire long- enough ahead of the engines to map out the entire plan oi fighting .the -blase .-- - v-v;. - - |