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30 . ORGANIZATION.
men of the towns of Newton and Needham to
appoint enginemen,' he, and hereby is repealed."
In May the selectmen of Newton and Needham
appointed the enginemen in compliance with this
act, and Newton's first tire company. Cataract
No. 1, was immediately organized, and continued
to exist until succeeded by the present Hose Co.
No. 6, in 1877.
The first engine used by this company was
purchased by its proprietors of Hnnueman &
Co., then, and for many years afterwards, the
famous fire-engine builders of Roxbury, Mass..
May 3, 1808.
It was a small snctionless tub
affair, such as was in universal use at that time,
and until suction engines came, early in the
twenties.
The second company was organized at Newton
Upper Falls, November 8, 1820, and known as
Newton Engine Society No. 2.
Its engine was
owned by the Rnfns Ellis iron-works, located at
the Boylston Street bridge, and was best known
as the Ellis engine.
In 18'24 the iron-works,
then known as Newton Factories, purchased of
Hunneman another and better engine, with suction
hose, which was the first, and until 1842
the only, suction engine in town.
This company
went out of existence in L842.
At West Parish, now "West Newton, in 1822,
was organized Engine Co. No. 3. Its engine, the