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Here the engineer, fireman, and driver are constantly employed, the hosemen have other employment in the neighborhood, but all the company sleep in the engine house.
Under a paid department, the following is, in the city of Boston, Mass., the comparative cost of running the two kinds of engines, viz.: STEAM FIRE ENGINE. 1 engineer........................................... $720 00 1 fireman............................................ 600 00 1 driver............................................. 600 00 1 foreman of hose.................................... 150 00 8 hosemen, at $125 each.............................. 375 00 7 men................................................ $2,445 00 Keeping of 2 horses.................................. 315 00 Total......................................... $2,760 00
HAND ENGINE. 1 foreman............................................ $150 00 1 assistant foreman.................................. 125 00 1 clerk.............................................. 125 00 1 steward............................................ 125 00 3 leading hosemen, at $125 each...................... 375 00 33 men, at $100 each................................. 3,300 00 40 men............................................... $4,200 00
The air was full of leather hats, spinning as the water struck them. Every now and then the hosemen elevated the nozzle and gave Colonel Gideon Ward his share. A half-dozen times he nearly fell off his perch and flapped out like a rag on a bush. "It certainly ain't no place for ladies!" communed Hiram with himself, gazing abroad from his elevated position on Imogene's neck.
The four hosemen staggered as the stream ripped from the nozzle, crackling like pistol discharges. There was no question as to Uncle Trufant's ability to get the most out of the ancient pride of Vienna. He knew Niagara's resources. "Ease her!" he screamed, after the first dizzy staccato of the beams. "Ease her! Steady! Get your motion! Up down! Up down! Get your motion! Take holt of her! Lift her!
Vienna realized it, too, for with a howl of protest her men came swarming into the square. "Souse the hide off'm the red-bellied sons of Gehenna!" Hiram yelled, and the hosemen, obedient to the word, swept the hissing stream on the enemy. Men who will face bullets will run from hornets. Men who will charge cannon can be routed by water.
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