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L64
THE OLD COMPANIES.
OTHER COMPANIES.
At different times, other companies have
existed, which were only temporary.
At the Upper Falls, a company of young men
was organized in 1842, to man the abandoned
Washington No. 2 engine on Boylston Street,
which remained in existence until 1854.
Back in the forties, there was a boys' company
at the Lower Falls, known as Rough and Beady,
of which Alfred (*. Whitton was foreman, and
Albert Gr. Whitton assistant.
It had a small
suctionless engine, —possibly the first Cataract,
— which was kept back of Foster's, recently
Wiswall's, paper-mill, near the bridge.
For several years in the later forties and early
fifties, there was an independent company at
the Lowei- Falls, which owned its engine, named
Forrest, which was first located in Hoit and
Jones's stable, opposite Wales hotel, until if.
was destroyed by fire, when it was removed to
Williams's stable, where Boyden Block now is,
and later to Charles Rice's buildings on the
Wellesley side of the river.
George T. Denton,
afterwards foreman of the Cataract, and previousl)
a member of Nonantum No. r>, was its
foreman, and George Bourne, afterwards engi
neer at Auburndale, assistant foreman.
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