The addition of the 
handsome new _ auto 
fire truck to Manches- 
ter’s fire fighting ap- 
paratus, a full descrip- 
tion of which was giv- 
en in our last issue, 
was duly celebrated 
last Monday — Labor 
Day—by the Manches- 
ter firemen and their 
friends, and a number 
of out-of-town firemen 
who had been invited 
to participate in the 
festivities of the day. 
At 10.30 in the morning an alarm 
was sent in from Box 52, at West 
Manchester, for the purpose of giv- 
ing the truck a ‘“‘try-out.’’ The 
truck started from the engine house 
in record time and one minute after 
the bell first sounded the auto was 
leaving the house on School street. 
In double quick time it had covered 
the mile or more between the station 
and the hydrant at Jersey Lane, and 
the hose was attached and a stream 
of water was spurting from the noz- 
zle in a fraction over four minutes. 
Returning to the engine house 
some of the visiting fire chiefs board- 
ed the truck for a run to the Man- 
chester-Gloucester line, in Magnolia 
village and a hose was attached to 
the hydrant opposite the Willow 
cottage and a stream of water was 
turned on in a little over seven min- 
utes. The run from Manchester to 
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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
The Old and the New of Manchester's Fire Dept. 
"Handsome New Auto Fire Truck of 1910 make, and the old “Torrent” hand 
engine, built in 1832. 
Magnolia is something more than 
three miles. 
Meanwhile 
gathering at Tuck’s Point for an 
the firemen were 
outing. <A lively ball game was 
played between the firemen and 
their guests and visitors, the game 
ending in a victory for the firemen 
with a score of 281% to 11, the half a 
run being made by Asst. Chief Sin- 
nicks who had proceeded only half 
way around the bases when put out. 
Quoit pitching and other games 
were participated in during the day. 
At one o’clock the party sat down 
to one of ‘‘Chef’’? Howe’s delicious 
fish and clam chowders, with side 
dishes of crackers and cheese, coffee, 
watermelon, tonics, ete. At 5 
o’clock a lunch of broiled lobster, 
steamed clams, crackers and coffee 
Was served. 
The committee in charge was com- 
posed of Curtis B. Stanley, L. Nel- 
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son Cook and Gran- 
ville Crombie. 
We present this week 
a picture of Manches- 
ter’s new auto truck 
and also a picture of 
the ‘Torrent, ”? . Man- 
chester’s first fire fight- 
ing apparatus, built in 
this town in 1832, and 
kept in active service 
for 53 years.’ It may 
still be seen at the 
Engine house. The 
picture of the auto 
truck is really that of the new truck 
owned by the town of Brookline, 
which is almost identically the same 
as Manchester’s. 
Among the guests at the try-out 
Monday were Thomas Proctor of Es- 
sex, Chief Engineer Crow of Glou- 
eester and firemen from Rockport, 
Gloucester, Beverly Farms, Ipswich 
and Boston. 
Burglary Insurance. 
The continued number of bur- 
glaries at North- Shore homes is 
arousing people in all parts of the 
North Shore. Samuel H. Stone, the 
well-known insurance man of 164 
Cabot. street, Beverly, calls the at- 
tention of people to the fact that he 
handles burglary insurance, which 
insurance covers the value of the 
property stolen and damage by bur- 
olary. 
