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114 THE OLD COMPANIES.
want of men, which was a common occurrence
with the other companies.
The engine was never much of a sporting
machine, hut for duty it had no superior, and
when in line it usually held its own.
A number
of machines of this and other towns have seen
its water flowing in torrents over their sides, or
its brakes stop because they were unable to
supply it.
It was a contestant in the local musters hereafter
mentioned.
Its first general muster was at Ashland, October
6, 184!).
Samuel H. Hall was then foreman.
There were eight contestants, including Nonantum
No. 5.
The playing was tub-and-tub, the
entire number playing in line into each other.
The result was most unsatisfactory,
without
victory for any one.
At the great Worcester muster, September 4,
1857, in command of Captain A. H. Randall, it
played a perpendicular stream through four
hundred feet of hose one hundred and twenty-
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five feet, and obtained the forty-fourth position
in a list of fifty-four.
The company, with the Eagle No. 6 engine,
attended a muster at Brockton, October 9, 1871.
when Richard Kerrivan was foreman, and
through two hundred and fifty feet of hose
played a horizontal stream L60 feet, \% inches,
occupying the twentieth position in a list of