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200 PRESENT DEPARTMENT.<br />

ber, 1879.<br />

This truck was succeeded by the<br />

present third-size Babcock aerial truck, built by<br />

the Fire Extinguisher Manufacturing Company,<br />

Chicago, June 15, 1891.<br />

Up to July, 1891, when No. 2 truck company<br />

went into service, this company responded to all<br />

first alarms, and did more service each year than<br />

any other in the department.<br />

The company went to Gloucester October 15,<br />

1878, where it was received and entertained by<br />

the Steam Fire Association, and participated in<br />

the annual parade of the fire department of<br />

that city.<br />

They in turn received their Gloucester friends<br />

at the time of their annual supper, February 20,<br />

1879. The following day a sleigh-ride about the<br />

city, a visit to the several fire stations and the<br />

Waltham watch factory, was participated in<br />

by the two entire organizations and numerous<br />

guests.<br />

Past and Present Officers.<br />

FOREMEN.—Samuel E. Wetherbee, 1872-75,<br />

1877-79 ; Caleb A. Purdy, 1875 ; F. L. Sibley,<br />

1870 : W. S. Higgins, 1879-92 ; Frank B. Sisson,<br />

1892.<br />

ASSISTANT FOREMEN. — John H. Williams,<br />

1872-75 ; J. Edward Watson, 1875 ; F. A. Harriman,<br />

1876 ; W. S. Higgins, 1877-79 ; U. H.<br />

Dyer, 1879-80 ; L. H. Cranitch, 1881 ; John<br />

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