Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania ... . euben Haines gave the company the use of the lotNo. 7 North Fourth street, and in connection with the Philadel-phia Engine Company a house was built; so great was theanxiety for its completion that the water was heated in the streetto make mortar. The hose was obtained from Frederick Shultz,at the cost of forty-three cents per foot, under a contract for sixhundred feet; it w
Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania ... . euben Haines gave the company the use of the lotNo. 7 North Fourth street, and in connection with the Philadel-phia Engine Company a house was built; so great was theanxiety for its completion that the water was heated in the streetto make mortar. The hose was obtained from Frederick Shultz,at the cost of forty-three cents per foot, under a contract for sixhundred feet; it was made of leather sewed with thread, in sec-tions of fifty feet each, except two of twenty-five feet each. Thenext duty to be performed was the building of the machine, andPatrick Lyon was the maker. It was an oblong box upon wheels,six feet nine inches long by two feet six inches wide and two feetdeej); the hose was carried in the box without a cylinder. It wasused as a reservoir also when the hose was in service for holdingwater to feed engines. This box had arms at the front and backto assist in changing its position, and lanterns on either side withcandles; this wonder of the age cost ninety-eight dollars. The. The First Hose-Carriage in the United States.—Patrick Lyon first fire at which the hose company turned out was in old Har-mony court, then called Whalebone alley, south of Chestnut streetand east of Fourth street, on the 3d of March, 1804, about threemonths after the first meeting of its founders. As this was thefirst occasion at which the first hose-carriage was in service at afire in Philadelphia, we propose to give a list of the members onduty. The minutes record that there were twenty members pres-ent—viz. Reuben Haines, Roberts Vaux, Joseph Parker, Abra-ham L. Pennock, William Morrison, WTilliam Morris, Charles III.—2 B 418 Annals of Philadelphia. Smith, Joseph Lea, Samuel Hazard, John J. Wheeler, James , William C. Nesbitt, Ralph Smith, Llo
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