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A model of one of them, The Queen, was exhibited as the highest exemplification of "the progress of art as applied to shipbuilding during the last eighteen centuries" a progress entirely eclipsed by that of the subsequent eighteen years. We sent no steam fire-engines, no locomotives, and no cars. Our great printing-presses, since largely borrowed from and imported by Europe, were scarcely noticed.
In fact, the entire region seems laid out with a view to the raising of a bonfire or a pyrotechnic display on the grandest conceivable scale. Little wonder, then, that the firemen of Watling Street turned out all their engines, including two of Shand and Mason's new land-steam fire-engines, which had at that time just been brought into action.
Soon the yard was swarming with them, men, women and children with hand- fire-engines and buckets. They formed into groups, and at Fritz Hamer's command began to pull down the burning masses and to put out the fire. Laughing and emulating each other in daring, they went into the fire as into a dance; some of the most venturesome climbed up the walls of the burning buildings.
Steam fire-engines were seen the next year. So early as 1816 the New York and Philadelphia stages made the distance from city to city between sun and sun. The National Road from Cumberland was finished to Wheeling in 1820, having been fourteen years in construction and costing $17,000,000. It was subsequently extended westward across Ohio and Indiana.
When, therefore, he found that his utmost efforts were of no avail, and that he was perpetually goaded, and twitted, and tweaked for every little trifle, his spirit was set alight as he at last remarked in confidence to David Clazie and all the fire-engines in Europe, Asia, Africa and America couldn't put it out.
They seemed to have scarcely reached the window, when a terrible noise was heard, and down the shady street the white horses of the fire-brigade were seen rushing at a fatal speed! It was a terrific moment! "I have touched the fire-alarm," Mrs. Peterkin exclaimed. Both rushed to open the front door in agony. By this time the fire-engines were approaching.
He said 'Tried by Fire' was too melodramatic. Well, he can't say now it wasn't appropriate." They made their way towards the river, avoiding the street which was blocked by the crowds and the fire-engines. As they crossed the Strand, the man looked back. A red glow was in the sky. "A great blaze!" he said. "What you might call in fact what the papers will call a holocaust.
Then, again, the finished productions; prime motors, such as stationary engines, locomotives and fire-engines; lifting-machines for solids or liquids, cranes, jacks, elevators, pumps, each in endless variety. Prominent in the hall, and employed in driving the machinery, is the large double compound horizontal engine of Galloway of Manchester.
The fire-engines of the city were searched for in vain. Soon there was a rumor spread that incendiaries had been arrested in several quarters. The emperor ordered these wretches to be brought before him.
The dock fire-engines had been brought to bear on the flames a few minutes after the fire was discovered.
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