Firehouses
of Shelby County, Indiana
Gramm-Bernstein Fire Truck in Service in Shelbyville, Indiana.
Postcard image contributed by George Young
The Daily Evening Democrat
Wednesday, October 3, 1883
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LOCAL NEWS
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If a fire should break
out to-day the alarm could not be given until someone climbed up on the engine
house, as the rope was broken at the last fire and has not been fixed yet, or
had not at noon to-day. The telephone, which was taken out when the
building was repaired, has notyet been replaced, either. It does seem that
a little more energy might be displayed by somebody, in regard to this matter.
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Ibid.
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The Council at their meeting last night,
ordered the committee on fire department to buy a suitable bell of the engine
house. The new bell will not improve matters if it is hung in the present
tower, which is too small in every way. It should either be raised and
enlarged, or else a new tower built at the rear end. What the city ought
to have now is some fire alarm boxes scattered over the city, all connected with
the bell on the engine house. What's the use of stopping half way when the
city is amply able to provide adequate means for the locating and extinguishing
of fires?
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming
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