. Springfield present and prospective; the city of homes . cluded every manwho could pass the bucket along the line without spilling the town brook supplied water, and was supplemented by smallreservoirs here and there. A small fire engine called the Lion waspurchased about 1792. In 1794 a fire club was organized to manthe engine, and each member was required to keep in his house twofire bags with which to move goods from burning houses, and twobuckets to be used in carrying water. At first the Lion was suppliedwith five feet of hose, but under Foreman Elijah Blake twenty-fivefeet mo
. Springfield present and prospective; the city of homes . cluded every manwho could pass the bucket along the line without spilling the town brook supplied water, and was supplemented by smallreservoirs here and there. A small fire engine called the Lion waspurchased about 1792. In 1794 a fire club was organized to manthe engine, and each member was required to keep in his house twofire bags with which to move goods from burning houses, and twobuckets to be used in carrying water. At first the Lion was suppliedwith five feet of hose, but under Foreman Elijah Blake twenty-fivefeet more were added. In 1824, largely through the efforts of George Dwight, a newside-brake engine, the Tiger, was purchased almost wholly by sub-scription. About this time there was purchased a Button machinecalled Eagle No. i, and a Waterman called Eagle No. 2. There wasalso a machine called the Old Ocean. The Indian Orchard andSixteen Acres people secured an engine and named it the 1826 the town appointed a committee to purchase a first-class m,.. =o ti. O
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