| Show that elre fire some time since our city Fa fathers therso who often have many gool good things in prospective made vigorous exertions to raise means meana for the procurement of a fire engine believing unquestionably that it would be need Deed needed edere ere along long iong 0 for the extinguishment of fires which 1 might occur in the city when it should become becore more densely populated populate dp and house be joined to house to an indefinite extent which would droum rende render r them more liable to be destroyed by that agency than in their then scattered condition ditl on how much money was subscribed for the leor jeor the making makin 0 of an engine 0 0 we do not know neither wele were we ever informed informed whether the subscriptions were all collected or not but according 1 to the best of our recollection le cllon clion it vas was lepor reported ted soon after the question was agitated and subscriptions solicited that an engine t was being built by some of our ingenious mechanics which would shortly be finished and ready for use A company of firemen was certainly organ organized with an un usual number of officers an engine 0 house built and other preparations made for effective operations erat ions with the extinguisher as soon as completed if needed there the tho matter ended and if it the engine was finished it has never been exhibited at the fairs nor used at any fire that has occurred since the excitement passed away now the engine may have bave been finished and housed up as anticipated but whether it has or has not is a question of little or no importance so far as its legitimate use tise is cin concerned the money raised if any was unquestionably judiciously and economically expended and will be accounted for in due time if it has not been before this to the satisfaction is of all concerned however it has occurred to us of or late that if the engine was ready for use and arid the fire company had bad not been disbanded some little exercise might be profitably taken occasionally in the of the internal spontaneous fires so no often occurring in the streets on the egress ofa ia certain class of bipeds from the saloons and gro grog 0 shops which are a curse to comma nil yand have been for some soma time past A few applications in such cases if scientifically administered 11 could not fail to be beneficial and would have a greater tendency to improve the finances of the city than the mineral praet practice ice so long in vogue vogue 0 that those who have bothin nothing 0 with which to pay the practitioner tit ioner prefer to any other bring out the engine and make the experiment and see if the water cure is not what it has been represented to be a sove dove sovereign ove reign remedy in chronic affections of that kind it would make a little sport in these dull times if nothing more |
