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most probable that they were located in those
places.
When the engines were delivered they were
given a public exhibition test at the Boylston
Street bridge. Upper Falls, the old Ellis or No.
*J engine competing with them. Of tins test a
resident of that village who witnessed it recently
said: ' k I well remember how jubilant
the
nail-factory [Ellis iron-works] boys were when
they threw up a taller stream of water, and
more of it, with the 'old squirt-gun,' as they
called the Ellis engine, than could he done with
the new machines."
Some time prior to L837 a hand-engine was
purchased by the inhabitants of Newton Centre,
and a house elected for its shelter, and July 20th
of that year the Eagle Engine Co. No. (> was organized,
which existed until l s 7:5.
The engine
at this time was in the selectmen's charge, and
the new company at its second meeting, held
August 1st, voted to make application for its
use, also instructed a committee "to take such
measures as they think best to try and procure
a new engine."
The selectmen granted them the use of the
old engine, and referred the request of the committee
for a new one to the town, which was 1
disposed of at a town meeting held November |
13th by referring it to a committee with instructions
to examine this and all other engines, and
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