. History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts . h allthe modern appliances, can be run by hand or horses, and hasa capacity for one thousand feet of hose. In 1892 the two carriages formerly attached to Torrent and Constitution were placed at the harbor and East Hingham,and designated as Hose A and Hose B. The force of the Department in 1893 consists of a Chief Engin-eer ; four Assistant-Engineers; Superintendent of Fire Alarm ;Hose Companies 1, 2, 3, and 4, fifteen men each ; Hook andLadder Company, No. 1, twenty men. WATERWORKS. BY CHARLES W. S. SEYMOUR. The Hingham Water Company, although
. History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts . h allthe modern appliances, can be run by hand or horses, and hasa capacity for one thousand feet of hose. In 1892 the two carriages formerly attached to Torrent and Constitution were placed at the harbor and East Hingham,and designated as Hose A and Hose B. The force of the Department in 1893 consists of a Chief Engin-eer ; four Assistant-Engineers; Superintendent of Fire Alarm ;Hose Companies 1, 2, 3, and 4, fifteen men each ; Hook andLadder Company, No. 1, twenty men. WATERWORKS. BY CHARLES W. S. SEYMOUR. The Hingham Water Company, although a private corporation,is so essentially a Hingham institution that the history of thetown would be incomplete without an account of the formation ofthe company and the building of the works,— an undertaking whichhas resulted in the promotion of the health and consequent hap-piness of the citizens of the town, in the preservation of public andprivate grounds from the effects of drought, and in the protectionof property from destruction by ACCORD POND. The idea of introducing a supply of pure soft water for domes-tic and other purposes into the town, from Accord Pond, began toimpress the minds of some of the progressive citizens of Hing-ham early in the year 1870. At this time Plymouth was theonly town in the county that had introduced water, and thesuccess of the works inthat place greatly encouraged the firstmovers for a similar system in Hingham ; and at a town meeting 262 History of Hingham. held Nov. 7, 1871, a committee consisting of Quincy Bicknell,,George P. Hay ward, Alfred Loring, Alden Wilder, and EdmundHorsey, was chosen to cause a survey of Accord Pond to ascer-tain its capacity for supplying the inhabitants of Hingham withwater; also to cause estimates to he made of the probable costof laying pipes, &c, and report thereon at some future meeting/ Mr. Bicknell, for the committee, presented an able report at theannual town-meeting, March 8, 1875, in which he s
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