The return of the North-German Lloyd steamships to their Hoboken pier gives a certain timeliness to Cleveland Moffett's account, in the June "St. Nicholas," of that part of the work of "The Fireman which consists in fighting the flames along the river front. One of the episodes described was the attempt to rescue th German engineers from their burning ships in the summer of 1900, "I'm with you, Ned," called Captain Braisted; and without more words these two climbed in through the oval-chute and started down the black, hot, stirling ways for the engine-room,, And somehow they got there safely, and found eight men still alive, all Germans, engineers and their assistants. But when the firemen called to them to hurry out for their lives, they refused to move. Their duty was with their engines, said they; they had to run their engines; they were much obliged to the American gentlemen, but they coald not leave: their posts. "Gallagher and Braisted could searcely believe their ears. "But you will die!" they urged. The Gernians thought it very-likely; still they could not leave. But it won't do any soo; the vessel is past hope; you will be mumed to death."
The Germans understood perfectly, says the "Pall Mall Gazette," they would be burned to death at their engines; and as were all of this mind and not to be the firensen gould only say-** g60dand set forth sadly on the{return
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