Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . to a fire. It took lotsa time for the Fifth Wards to get startedthat day, sport. Louis Arnould, the foreman, was shinglina roof for Andy Roach when the Kings bell rung, and MickDelaney, Dinny Hickey, Henny Higgins, Jim Gabon, GeneDeutsch, Billy Oakes, Mike Heeney, Jim Leonard, Fete Gil-looley. Jack Cavanaugh, Gil Arnould, Joe Dugan, and BryanToher was scattered all over town, workin at their trades, butat the first crack of the bell they dropped their tools to hot-foot it to the hosehouse. Humba Kelly, first torchboy, was stickin ty
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . to a fire. It took lotsa time for the Fifth Wards to get startedthat day, sport. Louis Arnould, the foreman, was shinglina roof for Andy Roach when the Kings bell rung, and MickDelaney, Dinny Hickey, Henny Higgins, Jim Gabon, GeneDeutsch, Billy Oakes, Mike Heeney, Jim Leonard, Fete Gil-looley. Jack Cavanaugh, Gil Arnould, Joe Dugan, and BryanToher was scattered all over town, workin at their trades, butat the first crack of the bell they dropped their tools to hot-foot it to the hosehouse. Humba Kelly, first torchboy, was stickin type on theBlue Ribbon News, and he bolted out the door without wait-in to space out his line or say a word to Ed Collins, theforeman. Grunter ODonnell, secondtorchboy, jumped off Lilliss grocerywagon, and hung up a new recordsprintin to the hosehouse. Dan McFarland, assistant fore-man, was tappin wheels on the RockyMountain limited at the Perry streetdepot, and he trun his hammer to TomBehan and Johnny Cody, and rushedhome for his silver plated trumpet, red. 199 THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS shirt, and castiron hat, as Dan always worked in full uniformwhen firefightin. Firemen in them times was alv/ays braverwhen they had time to tend to their make-up. Foreman Arnould was a sticker for system with the FifthWards, and wouldnt let them lads start for a fire till theyknew where it was, no matter how restless they got, nor howhard they pulled on the hosecart rope. Wait til you hearthe waterworks whistle! was the orders he blasted throughhis silver-plated trumpet. He called the roll that day, andeverybody answered exceptin Larry McKee, he bein downat Columbus Junction kickin off empties on a side-track. When the waterworks whistle blowed five times, it wasntno time at all til them Fifth Wards came tearin around thecorner at Fifth and Iowa—the foreman and assistant foreman
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