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152 THE OLD COMPANIES.
and in every one of them it came off the victor.
This was the best engine in town for distance
playing or tub-and-tub contests, as was universally
acknowledged.
It always won, notwithstanding
the company was the smallest.
It never attended a muster outside of Newton
manned by its own company.
After it went
out of service, the Mechanic No. 4 company took
it to a muster at Brockton, October 9, 1874,
where it played 1G0 feet, ±% inches, and was
twentieth in a list of twentv-five.
Another
Upper Falls company organized for the purpose,
with C. W. Kandall foreman, took it to a
muster at Waltham, October 5, 1876, and re
corded 166 feet, 11 inches, with it, occupying
the thirteenth position in a list of seventeen, including
the biggest and best engines then in
existence.
A new and more commodious station, which
is still in existence, was built by the company
on the northwest corner of Centre and Pelliam
streets, in 1811-, and was moved to its present
site some twenty-five years later.
Tliis company disbanded and reorganized more
frequently than any other in Newton.
It sometimes
found itself with so few members that it
could not do otherwise.
It first disbanded May
1, 1850, and was reorganized ten days later.
May 3, 1853, it disbanded because it had only
nine members, and a week later another com-
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