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brigade, which for many generations had lined up between 

 a burning building and a well to pass the water to the 

 flames, was promised an everlasting rest wherever the 

 water pipes might furnish a hydrant in the streets for the 

 hose that would send a drenching stream. 



All these and many other promises of convenience have 

 been realized. The Cohasset Water Company, with a 

 capital stock of $100,000, half issued, has undertaken and 

 has succeeded in supplying some of the best drinking 

 water of the State. The wells driven into the meadow 

 are iron tubes two and a half inches in diameter, with the 

 lower end pointed and perforated with enough holes to 

 allow the water to flow in rapidly. Fifty-four of these 

 pipes were all connected at the top with mains that run to 

 the center and thence to the pump, as the accompanying 

 diagram will show. The steam pump sucks up the water 

 from all and forces it into a large main that runs up to the 

 top of Bear Hill, where a reservoir seventeen feet deep, 

 holding one and a half million gallons, has been dug in the 

 top of that hard clay drumlin. This large main is tapped 

 at a place before it reaches the reservoir by the mains that 

 lead through all our streets and supply our homes.* It 

 thus happens that the water flows up and down through 

 the same pipe, and when there is scarcely enough to fill 

 the service pipes and to pass on up into the reservoir, as 



others as may Joyn them, to the number the Law allowes and to be Compleated 

 aggreeable to Law in the Course of Nine Months; with this proviso, that if the 

 selectmen should at any time hereafter appoint Engine men, to the exclusion of the 

 present applicants, or any of their Associates or Assigns then the Town shall reim- 

 burse to those who they may exclude, all expences they may have been at. 



THADDEUS LAWRENCE JAMES STODDARD 

 ELISHA DOANE ABEL KENT Junior 



WILLIAM STUTSON LABAN BATES 



ISRAEL NICHOLS JOEL WILLCUTT 



*The number of services furnished by the Cohasset Water Company is 307. 

 Some of these being stables, the whole number of homes supplied is about 280. 

 There are also forty hydrants at convenient intervals upon our streets, as a fire 

 protection, paid for by the town. The care of the whole system has been from the 

 beginning in the hands of Daniel N. Tower. 



