. Water & sewage works . n be carried on this car, togetherwith ten men and equipment, making itvirtually a complete fire department initself. As this type of machine is muchlighter than the piston type and canthrow as high as 750 gallons of waterper minute maximum, it has found favorwith a great many towns and cities wheregood speed and hill-climbing ability,combined with moderate capacity, arerequired. In the Knox-Martin tractor the com-pany has a type of machine which isadaptable to a wide variety of purposesand one which is meeting with an ex-tensive sale, as it can be applied readilyto pr
. Water & sewage works . n be carried on this car, togetherwith ten men and equipment, making itvirtually a complete fire department initself. As this type of machine is muchlighter than the piston type and canthrow as high as 750 gallons of waterper minute maximum, it has found favorwith a great many towns and cities wheregood speed and hill-climbing ability,combined with moderate capacity, arerequired. In the Knox-Martin tractor the com-pany has a type of machine which isadaptable to a wide variety of purposesand one which is meeting with an ex-tensive sale, as it can be applied readilyto present horse-driven apparatus bymerely connecting the rear springs ofthe tractor to the front axle of the ap-paratus and putting sprockets on thefront wheels. Large size steam enginesor hook and ladder trucks can be drawnwith this machine at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour, and if used in con-nection with motor-driven hose cars canthus be brought to a fire in season to beused without loss of valuable time. July IBIS. {-- » - ? ? ?:????-?? J----, .^t^i-y t^V--- • ? - —..,— ?? ? il I. r. J CIVIC BEAUTY -^mmm St. Louis Plans a Central TraflicParkway The St. Louis City Plan Commission,which came into existence two years ago,has made its report to the Municipal As-sembly on the plan to establish a greatcentral traffic parkway two miles inlength, extending from Twelfth street toGrand avenue. This plan, carried out,•would call for the acquisition of prop-erty lying between Market and Chestnutstreets, a strip one block wide. The City Plan Commission was createdby ordinance and is composed of fifteenmembers. The duties of the body are aafollows: First. To prepare a comprehensivecity plan for the future improvement, aswell as for the commercial developmentof the city, including recommendationsfor: (a) Improvement of the river front. (b) Extension of streets and the su-pervision of the opening of sub-divisions. (c) Improvement of surroundings ofUnion Station. (d) A system o
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