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Updated: May 6, 2025
The season was remarkable for its severity: the Thames was frozen over, and the supply of water entirely inadequate. So great hogsheads of ale were hoisted up from the cellars and the liquor fed to the clumsy hand-engines of the period.
In this work he was aided by Mort Decker, whom Mr. Stockton appointed his secretary. It needed horses to draw the steamer, and of course required men to operate it. But the boys were not forgotten. They still kept the chemical engines and the smaller lads the hand-engines and they were often called on to put out trifling blazes, and help at the larger ones. Mr.
Thence the hand-engines were dragged through the streets at a terrific rate of speed by hundreds of yelling men at the end of the ropes. The first engine at a fire obtained the place of honor; therefore every alarm was the signal for a breakneck race.
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