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The Firemen of Trepied

This is the 3rd Anniversary - celebrated by a banquet given by the Firemen of Trepied – The invited were the Firemen. Trepied is a little cummunity of perhaps 25 houses & it belongs to the growing pleasure resort of Paris - Plaza. Had it not been for the fact Trepied might have finished it days & never have had a Fire company - True during the 12 or 13 years I have know it there has never been but one fire & strangely enough that came 6 month after this organization but as at that time their uniforms were not completed they having only caps & leggings At that time not being well organized & only having had had one banquet the "Pompiers" did not make a very good showing but no blame was attached to that they had to find their caps & put on leggings while the ordering "firefighter" had only to come as the fire call found him, they arrived however one by one after the line had been formed & water was being passed from a small pond a couple of hundred feet away.  As they arrived room was made for them at the head of the line and by the time the fire was well under hand.  I mean by the time all that could burn had burnt a count revealed 9 of the 12 the others there fire stopping having been put in the great "armoire" under lock & key & the wife being at the fire with the key our fire men were unable to put in an appearance naturally they could not be seen at a fire without their trappings, but this is ancient history, this was over