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Communication to council on fire engines

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1893

[where?]

J.W Van Brocklin Chairman Jesse F. Cochran C.G. Heifner J.M. Wolfe

Board of Public Works

Seattle, Wash..May 25 1893

To the City Council:- Gentlemen:- A great deal having been said with reference to the Waterous fire engine recently bought by this Board, and especially since the Board of Fire Commissioners have seen fit to recommend to your honorable body the rejection of said engine, this Board whom the council authorized and directed to buy said engine desire to say that in the judgement of this board the Waterous Engine equaled on the whole if it did not exceed the Ahrens Engine in the test, and that in the other respects with a very few minor exceptions the new engine is substantially in accordance with the

J.W. Van Brocklin Chairman Jesse F. Cochran C.G. Heifner, Secretary J.M. Wolfe

Board of Public Works

Seattle, Wash., 1893 provisions of the specification in the contract. We do not think the engine faulty either in construction or workmanship as alleged by some. As to the objection that the engine is overweight we desire to say that it was the order of this Board that the weight be increased because of the great strain on engines used in Seattle. The Board has endorsed to the best of their ability to perform the duties incumbent upon them in carrying out the provisions of the ordinance author-ising the purchase of this fire apparatus and they believe that there is no 3rd class engines made superior to the Waterous 3rd class engine bought by this board. The Board of Public Works C.G. Heifner Secy