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November 14th, 1836 AD (search for this): chapter 15
e engines served the purposes of the town till a late period. The firemen were selected from the most reliable and energetic of all the citizens; and, once a month, each engine was examined and played. March 3, 1828: Voted that the selectmen be a committee to examine and consider the necessity of procuring a new engine for the west part of the town. 1828: The first record of the organization of a new engine-company. 1831, the town voted to give a supper each year to the firemen. Nov. 14, 1836: Voted to purchase a new engine. Nov. 9, 1835: The town voted that the fire-engines may be employed to water ships, and that proper compensation be required therefor. March 6, 1837: At this time there was a general call for a more extended and efficient defence against fire; and the town voted that it approves of the Revised Statutes, sections 19-21. 1839: The town voted to petition the Legislature for an act of incorporation for their fire-department. This petition suggests to
April 10th, 1839 AD (search for this): chapter 15
according to the provisions. prescribed in an act to regulate fire departments, passed on the 9th of April, 1839; and the said fire-department, when so established, and the several members thereof, and all the officers and companies appointed by them, and the said town of Medford, and the inhabitants thereof, shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities, and be entitled to all the privileges and exemptions, specified in said act, so far as the same relate to them respectively. April 10, 1839. The ninth section provides that the act establishing the fire-department shall not take effect until it is accepted and approved by the inhabitants of the town. It was approved by the town, and the present fire-department organized in due form. March 7, 1842: The chief engineer made his first annual report. Large cisterns, sunk in the ground in various parts of the town, are filled with water, to be used only in case of fire. These reservoirs were ordered by a vote of the to
February 15th, 1855 AD (search for this): chapter 15
e interest in the fire-department which it so much needs. We have great pleasure in learning that the fire-department of Medford is furnished with officers of reliable character, of good judgment, and prompt energy; and with firemen who have in times past done honor to themselves; who will, in times to come, show themselves equal to the severest emergencies, and continue to deserve the grateful esteem of their fellow-citizens. Expenses of the fire-department, from Feb. 15, 1854, to Feb. 15, 1855, $2,046.04. The engines in use at the present time are:-- Names.Places.When bought.Builders.Cost. Governor Brooks, No. 1Union St.March, 1840Hunneman & Co.$1007 General Jackson, No. 2High St.-----, 1845Hunneman & Co.800 Washington, No. 3Park St.May 31, 1850Hunneman & Co.1100 The number of men attached to each engine averages about forty-five. The salary of each officer and fireman per annum is six dollars, and poll-tax refunded. The hook-and-ladder apparatus has twenty-fiv
March 7th, 1842 AD (search for this): chapter 15
n of Medford, and the inhabitants thereof, shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities, and be entitled to all the privileges and exemptions, specified in said act, so far as the same relate to them respectively. April 10, 1839. The ninth section provides that the act establishing the fire-department shall not take effect until it is accepted and approved by the inhabitants of the town. It was approved by the town, and the present fire-department organized in due form. March 7, 1842: The chief engineer made his first annual report. Large cisterns, sunk in the ground in various parts of the town, are filled with water, to be used only in case of fire. These reservoirs were ordered by a vote of the town, Nov. 6, 1850. Every provision of hose, fire-hooks, ladders, &c., which the department required, was made by the town. In 1840 was published a pamphlet, entitled State Laws and Town Ordinances respecting the Fire Department of the Town of Medford. It contain
September, 1855 AD (search for this): chapter 15
eemasons, who were wont to attend the meetings of Hiram Lodge, West Cambridge, determined to establish a lodge in Medford, so that they might enjoy the pleasures of Masonry nearer home. Hearing of their determination, others of their brethren in Medford united with them in petitioning the Grand Lodge of the State to grant them the requisite authority for assembling as a legal lodge. A dispensation was granted; and, the proper time of probation having nearly elapsed, they will soon (in September, 1855) receive a charter, which will confirm them in the rights and privileges of a regularly constituted lodge. The original petitioners were Messrs. George Hervey, John T. White, E. G. Currell, C. E. Merrill, Cleopas B. Johnson, William Crook, Dr. Samuel Kidder, A. H. Gardner, Elisha Stetson, James Ford, and T. R. Peck. The lodge is now in a flourishing condition, and has every prospect of further success and extended usefulness under its efficient organization, which is as follows:--
September 19th, 1796 AD (search for this): chapter 15
of regulations reads thus: The members shall dine together on the first Wednesday in August annually. When engines were few, and their hose were short, this society rendered most important service; and, as their chief aim was to rescue furniture, they were sometimes able to save nearly all by their concentrated and harmonious action. The introduction of better engines and systematic procedure at fires has rendered the society so little needed that it has almost lost its existence. Sept. 19, 1796: Voted to procure a new engine. These engines served the purposes of the town till a late period. The firemen were selected from the most reliable and energetic of all the citizens; and, once a month, each engine was examined and played. March 3, 1828: Voted that the selectmen be a committee to examine and consider the necessity of procuring a new engine for the west part of the town. 1828: The first record of the organization of a new engine-company. 1831, the town voted to g
March 7th, 1847 AD (search for this): chapter 15
es in use at the present time are:-- Names.Places.When bought.Builders.Cost. Governor Brooks, No. 1Union St.March, 1840Hunneman & Co.$1007 General Jackson, No. 2High St.-----, 1845Hunneman & Co.800 Washington, No. 3Park St.May 31, 1850Hunneman & Co.1100 The number of men attached to each engine averages about forty-five. The salary of each officer and fireman per annum is six dollars, and poll-tax refunded. The hook-and-ladder apparatus has twenty-five men attached to it. March 7, 1847: The town voted to pay each fireman five dollars per annum. During 1854, the department was called out nine times to fires in town; the loss of property estimated at $17,500. Societies. The strong tendency among us for consociated action makes it easy to form societies for special objects. Medford has its full share; and they are sometimes general, sometimes local, and sometimes confined to parish limits. Sewing-circles, charitable associations, literary unions, religious brot
April 29th, 1840 AD (search for this): chapter 15
ing the Fire Department of the Town of Medford. It contained the act of the General Court of April 9, 1839; also the act of April 17, 1837, to prevent bonfires, and false alarms of fire; also extracts from the Revised Statutes, chapter 18; also an ordinance for preventing and extinguishing fires, and establishing a fire-department in the town of Medford,--passed by the board of engineers, April 25, 1840; also further extracts from the Revised Statutes, chapter 58. Approved by the town, April 29, 1840. The ordinance passed by the board of engineers had, and still has, the approval of every intelligent and virtuous citizen in Medford. A brief extract is as follows :-- Fines for carrying fire openly in the streets, from two dollars to twenty dollars; for allowing to remain any defective chimney, deposit of ashes, &c., five dollars to twenty dollars; chimney set on fire at improper times, two dollars. Engineers shall remove combustible materials where dangerously placed; the engin
ocure the engine and receive the subscriptions. This resulted in the purchase of an engine called the Grasshopper, which was placed near the market. This engine was removed to the West End, April 1, 1799 (when another had been obtained), and was kept in the barn attached to the Angier house. It is yet in existence, and is sometimes employed in pumping water into vessels. March 11, 1765: For the first time, nine fire-wards and twelve engine-men were appointed by vote of the town. In 1785, some gentlemen associated themselves under the name of the Medford Amicable fire Society, with the motto, Amicis nobisque. Twenty-four members only were allowed; and they solemnly engage to govern themselves by the nine regulations which they adopted. These regulations embrace all the common provisions for choice of officers and transaction of business which such an association would require. The third provides that each member shall keep constantly in good order, hanging up in some
May 31st, 1850 AD (search for this): chapter 15
nor to themselves; who will, in times to come, show themselves equal to the severest emergencies, and continue to deserve the grateful esteem of their fellow-citizens. Expenses of the fire-department, from Feb. 15, 1854, to Feb. 15, 1855, $2,046.04. The engines in use at the present time are:-- Names.Places.When bought.Builders.Cost. Governor Brooks, No. 1Union St.March, 1840Hunneman & Co.$1007 General Jackson, No. 2High St.-----, 1845Hunneman & Co.800 Washington, No. 3Park St.May 31, 1850Hunneman & Co.1100 The number of men attached to each engine averages about forty-five. The salary of each officer and fireman per annum is six dollars, and poll-tax refunded. The hook-and-ladder apparatus has twenty-five men attached to it. March 7, 1847: The town voted to pay each fireman five dollars per annum. During 1854, the department was called out nine times to fires in town; the loss of property estimated at $17,500. Societies. The strong tendency among us for
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