City of Seattle Records

-8Fire Hose Bid Prescott Brothers 12/29/1890

Prescott Brothers Dealers in Rubber Goods Manufacturers of Prescott's Hose Holder Fire Hose Bid Garden Hose and Fixtures a Specialty 62 & 64 Cornhill, Near Court Street Boston Dec 29 1890 To the Chief Engineer Seattle Fire Department Dear Sir We hereby offer to furnish the City of Seattle for their Fire Department Ten Thousand feet or less of 2&1/2 inch 2 ply Boston Belting Co's woven Cotton jacket Fire Hose Rubber Lined with Morse patent couplings, attached delivered FOB Boston At 57 cents per foot net. The hose to be made of the best quality of Cotton. And lined with a superior quality of Rubber under James B Forsyth's patents And guarenteed not to burst at less than 400 lbs to the square inch when delivered. Time Guarentee, We guarentee that the brand of Fire Hose bought of us will stand the use by your fire Department for a term of Thirtysix months except in call of accidental or malicious damage or burning for drying and care of hose Sample of woven cotton Jacket Fire Hose submitted with bid. Yours Respectfully Prescott Bros 62 & 64 Cornhill Boston

Prescott Brothers Dealers in Rubber Goods Manufacturers of Prescott's Hose Holder Fire Hose Bid Garden Hose and Fixtures a Specialty 62 & 64 Cornhill, Near Court Street Boston P S The knit cotton Niagara Jacket Fire Hose of which we have submitted sample we guarentee the same as the woven Jacket and price the same. P Bros Repsectfully referred to th e Board of Fire Commissioners G Kellogg Chief Dept