2038.7 Report of committee on water supply and Fire Department, 1893

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Ft mes+,. Inv of '.he . mown.,:heId April; 3,: 1893, the jo. intr commfttee,. composed of the Committee a:)po .nted by the town to consider the need- of the' Fire Department , an'd of the Committee on Water Supply, was "continued, to investigate and report' "a't the next annual meeting of the town, '' In accordance wi th th i - vote, the Joint Committee report as follows ;-- W= boa to st .te that since our last report was -made the Wit " r Company has provided 'an , add 1t Tonal pump of 11,0oo, oo� gals;' capacity per day, and his tak --n steps to construct a large stor- age basin in the meadow above its works. It ' has made no ' provi - Sion, however, fo.r an additional ' tank , and. we reiterate, therefore, our re.commend�ation of last year " that the town insist that the I later Company erect an additional tank or stand pipe on a suf- ficiently high elevation, ,.4hich it shall keep filled at' all times with water, and to be used only in case of fir-e'' and "that no further contract should be made with the later Company which does not provide. for such additional tank or for-better pro- tect ion in some other reasonable method." `;'e call at tent ion, furthermore; to the unusual number of . f ires,many of then at a di stance from the centre, that have occur„red in thetown since: our la,'st report , and to the drisad- v,�.ntq.ge under which the Fire Department hat: labored in not being able to loc7te ' these fires promptly and 'to bring the chemical engines, -which are of use only in the early stages of a fire, - into service quickly. In view of these facts, we endor7e Articles 23 and 27 of the I arrant for the present Town Meeting relating, respectively, a fire Alarm System ;and 'to additional a-opropriation" for the Fire. Department . We are convinced that the present method of notifying the D partmnnt of the existence and locatlo