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Show A HAND PUMP. One Should be Purchased for the Protection Pro-tection of the City Suburbs. In connection with the volunteer (ire brigade; which is now being organized in this city,a good hand-pump hand-pump and an ample supply of hose should be purchased by the city. This will be especially for the protection of property outside the large district covered by the water wonts, aimougn me nanu-pump nanu-pump will be found a powerful agent when along side of hose from the city mains. Two or three streams playing on a burning building are many times more effective than a single stream. This hand-pump, manned by from four to six men, could be used with telling effect from any of our small brooks. Let us have one; the people peo-ple residing on the outskirts of town should be accorded this protection. |