Excerpt from Third Annual Message of Edwin S. Stuart, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia: With Annual Reports of the Director of the Department of Public Safety, and Chief of the Electrical Bureau, for the Year Ending December 31, 1893 During 1893 the efficiency of this Bureau was increased by the addition of eight hosemen to the force, and four Silsby Fire Engines, two Chemical Engines, two Combi nation Hose Wagons, 36 six-gallon Hand Extinguishers, and a total of feet of hose to the equipment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.