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GIVEN K TESTFiremen Elated At Result ButWant An Engine.iPressure from the Fort Hill reservoir enabled Central Fire Department to throw a two-inch stream of water clear across Wills Creek and to the I top of the Potomac Glass factory sheds, a distance of about .100 feet. The stream left the nozzle when the ! latter was turned to its full diameter, j giving a two-inch opening.“Maybe that's still Potomac river I water that was left in the mains,” re-! marked one skeptic, as h-» viewedj the water shooting high into the air.” . | “With this sort of pressure the Old i City Hall could have been saved” re-! marked Thomas Connell, assistant ' chief of the Central Department, this morning.Mr. Connell was in the department at the time of the fire which destroyed the old city building.“At the City liall fire we could not get a stream up to the second story window at first and after a while wecould not get a stream to the first story window,” he said. With the I present pressure we could have put streams anywhere we wanted them. 11 believe that there is pressure enoughin the Baltimore street mains to throw-two streams from one plug to the top of the Third National Bank Building, the highest building in the city.”“I suppose there is now no necessity for an automobile pumping engine,” remarked the Times man.Oh, yes, there is!” shouted all the firemen in unison. “If there is a big fire and many lines are n°eded you will find that the pressure is bound tobecome low. Cumberland should havea fire engine, by all means.4*• t1i
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Cumberland Evening Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Wed, Sep 17, 1913
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