A Midnight Hearing, The Pelham Press, Sept. 30, 1896, Vol. I, No. 30, at 1, col. 5.

Fire Department Inspection and Drill,
The Pelham Press, Sept. 30, 1896,
Vol. I, No. 30, at 1, col. 6.

FIRE DEPARTMENT INSPECTION AND DRILL.

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A drill and inspection of the Pelham Fire Department was held last Friday night and presented a sad spectacle to those who witnessed it. The ‘fire bell’ (which, by the way, was reconstructed so that the distance from which it could be heard has been reduced several several thousand feet) was rung and the entire department responded. Liberty Hose was first to get under way. They succeeded in getting out of sight before all of Relief H. & L. Co.’s men arrived. Chief Heisser’s horse had a sore back and could not be used. The five members put their shoulders to the wheels and pushed, but they might just as well been trying to push the building for the truck wouldn’t budge an inch. Chief Heisser asked Dr. Chas. Barker to donate the services of his colt, but the doctor advised him to secure the services of two of Francis McDermitt’s goats and a couple of Thos. Hewitt’s chickens and make a tandem, but the motion was lost in the excitement. There was no use; all they could do was to sit down and wait for Liberty to return. Up to a late hour they had not returned, and it was unanimously agreed upon that they had probably got stuck in one of the ruts in Wolf’s Lane. The crowd was looking on pitilessly when the Press reporter left the scene.

Source: The Pelham Press, Sept. 30, 1896, Vol. I, No. 30, at 1, col. 6.

Fire Department Inspection and Drill, The Pelham Press, Sept. 30, 1896, Vol. I, No. 30, at 1, col. 6.

Fire Department Inspection and Drill,
The Pelham Press, Sept. 30, 1896,
Vol. I, No. 30, at 1, col. 6.