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Of unusual interest and excellence was the display of equipment and appliances adapted to the fire service. Of striking importance was the exhibit of the Cornelius Callahan Co. of Boston under the management of George S. Willis, assisted by William Webber. The display included everything manufactured by this popular firm, such as hose, relief valves, pressure and gravity, shut-off nozzles, shut-off spray nozzles, hydrant gates, flexible pipes, gongs, rein and trace snaps, brass play pipes, door openers, jimmies, life belts, lanterns, couplings, fire extinguishers, fire axes.

The Rhode Island Coupling Co. of Providence made a noticeable exhibit of the Waldron combination controlling nozxle. At the great Aldrich House fire, when the whole business portion of Providence was threatened, the Waldron controlling nozzles were manipulated for 24 hours with the thermometer ranging from 12 degrees to 18 degrees below zero, when the water froze as it struck the building, crystallizing two city blocks of ruins. With the wind blowing at a high velocity, more than a dozen incipient fires started in a radius of a half mile, necessitating the continuous changing of streams, with fifteen companies at work, each equipped with two Waldron controlling nozzles, not a single nozzle failed in its complete duty. J. T. Wakeman had charge of the exhibit. The Gamewell Co. made a large and excellent display under the direction of E. D. Wheeler. Braxmar, the badge man, was represented by C. F. Olpp, who has many friends. A. S. Jackson, the Boston dealer in fire department supplies of all kinds, had an exhibit, as did also the Eureka Hose Co. Another interesting display was that of the Combination Ladder Co. of Providence. This company, by the way, has just supplied to Rumsey & Co. of Seneca Falls a number of their ladder locks to be used on the ladders now making for the New York Department. Thomas A. Raymond represented the interests of the noted Fabric Fire Hose, and T. R. Polglase. and Newton Crane that of the Municipal Fire and Police Telegraph Co. J. G. Shackley made an excellent exhibit of the Eastman Perfection Holders Other exhibits were the Somerville Extension Ladder, S. F. Haywood & Co., New York ; Stevens Fire Alarm System, Boston ; Revere Rubber Co., represented by E. T. Jacobs, and the J. C. Robbins Manufacturing Co. of Boston.