Show FIRE ENGINE COST dealt ay iy men of york pa ly equipment fire fighting is fad among the wealthy business and professional men of york pa and one of the in dependent companies there has just had manufactured at the local plant of tho american locomotive works one of the finest steam fire engines ever constructed it is a machine of the first class and built after the fa amoskeag pattern the ordinary coot of a teamer of this type Is 5 but this luxuriously equipped and lavishly ornamented piece of apparatus Is so rich in costly embellish ments that a check tor about 9 will be necessary to settle tor it ex pense however was not a matter to be long considered by the company which ordered the machine three members of the company are said to have pledged fl each toward defraying the coat it seems that the company Is determined to have every thing about its quarters in keeping with the character 0 the new ma chine A handsome and commodious new engine house Is now being erect ed in which will be stalled three mag ent coal black horses to be pur chased regardless of price so long as they are perfectly matched and not marred by a single spot of white three black grooms will be engaged to care tor these animals the new engine is now ready for shipment which Is being delayed until the build ing in which it is to be housed Is completed |