Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1898 — Our Misfit Hydrants. [ARTICLE]

Our Misfit Hydrants.

The result of firemen Purcells’ and Perkins’ visit to Remington, Friday, was to prove that it is the nippies on the hydrants and not the screws on the fire hose that is a misfit and does not conform to the established standard. They took a hose attachment and a nozzle to Remington and tried them on the hydrants there and found that they fitted perfectly. The conclusion therefore is that the hose connection is all right and that the hydrant nipple is not regular in its make. Whether the defect will be remedied by obtaining new hose connection or by having the hydrant nipples changed, is not yet determined. The latter would probably be much cheaper, but in some respects not so satisfactory, as it is admitted by all that our hose and hydrants oyght. to conform to the common standard so that other town’s apparatus could work here, and our’s work in other towns. Messrs Parcells and Perkins are more than well pleased by the courtesies shown them by the town and fire officials of Remington, during their stay there.