City of Seattle Records

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