Who Wants a 1796 Fire Engine?
Lack of housing conditions makes it necessary for the Friendship Fire Company No. 1 of Danville, Pa., to sell a handoperated pumper that dates back to August 18, 1796.
The pumper was originally purchased by Philadelphia on that date. In 1841, the pumper was supplanted by a steamer, at that time the last word in fire apparatus design. The Danville department purchased the machine for nine hundred dollars through
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