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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



With the exception of the buckets made in New York in 

 1657-'59 by Remout Reinoutzen and Adrian Van Lair, no men- 

 tion is made of the makers of the different equipments provided. 

 In 1729 Salem again took steps toward protection from fire by 

 ordering buckets, hooks, poles and ladders to be kept in the Town 





Fig. 2. Early Fire Fighting. (From an old print.) 



House, but the records fail to state where and by whom the 

 buckets, etc., were made. It is most probable, however, that the 

 ladders, hooks, poles, and swabs were made by artisans in the 

 different towns, but many of the buckets were undoubtedly manu- 

 factured in Europe. Later records are more specific. In 1730, 

 Philadelphia, besides buying some buckets in England, made 

 a bargain with a townsman, Thomas Oldman, for one hundred 

 leather buckets. 



New York had no fire engine until 1731, when two were 

 bought of Mr. Newsham, the celebrated London maker. These 

 engines were box affairs, with small wheels and axles solidly set. 

 They could not turn corners, but had to be lifted bodily around. 

 The first engine of home manufacture was built in New York in 

 I 737. In the New York Gazette, of May 9th of that year, the fol- 

 lowing advertisement appeared : 



" A Fire-engine that will deliver two hogsheads of water in a 

 minute, in a continual stream, is to be sold by William Lindsay, 

 the maker thereof. Enquire at Fighting Cocks, next door to the 

 Exchange Coffee-house, New York." 



"Whether or not this engine was successful is unknown, but it 



