. Water & sewage works . ination streetwatering and sweeping machines andelectric garbage wagons. In five of thetwenty city wards the horse had beendisplaced by these machines up to lastApril, and other wards had made a par-tial change. Motor fire apparatus hasbeen used for years in most of the capi-tals, of Europe, particularly Paris, Ber-lin, London, Glasgow, Dublin, Vienna andRome. Doubtless it will be some yearsbefore American cities reach the ad-vanced position of Paris, but it is certainthat in time all big,cities will abolishhorses from municipal service, and somewill prohibit or restri
. Water & sewage works . ination streetwatering and sweeping machines andelectric garbage wagons. In five of thetwenty city wards the horse had beendisplaced by these machines up to lastApril, and other wards had made a par-tial change. Motor fire apparatus hasbeen used for years in most of the capi-tals, of Europe, particularly Paris, Ber-lin, London, Glasgow, Dublin, Vienna andRome. Doubtless it will be some yearsbefore American cities reach the ad-vanced position of Paris, but it is certainthat in time all big,cities will abolishhorses from municipal service, and somewill prohibit or restrict their use by pri-vate citizens. Pittsburg is motorizing her fire de-partment rapidly, a process that JohnH. Dailey, director of the department ofpublic safety, estimates will take aboutthree years to complete. He predictsthat there will hardly be a city of anysize in the United States in five yearswhere fire apparatus is not mostly self-propelled. His prediction is based on per-sonal experience with the efficiency and. [t] A TYPE of motor ap-aratus which hassaved property oicncrsmany thousands of dol-lars. It is speedy andequipped with reeessaryladders and chemical tanksto extinrjnish small firesbefore they reach a pointof doing much by Robinson FireApparatus Co. September, 191S 208 MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING economy of motor equipment. Figurescompiled from records of the cost ofmaintaining and operating the presentmotor apparatus indicate that the firstyears saving in expense will be almostdouble the cost of complete cost of keeping a chemical and hosecar he found to be approximately $55 ayear, as compared with $600 a year foreach piece of horse-drawn apparatus. Thecity maintains pieces of apparatusand Iceeps 25 extra horses, equivalent to12 more pieces, making a total of 143,not including runabouts and horses usedby the chief engineer and district $600 a year these cost $85,800, whilean equal number of motor pieces at $55would cost $
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