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Show ROSE COMPANY SETS 1W HIGH RECORO Oldsmobile Motor Enables New Jersey Firemen to Make Wonderful Run. According to word received by Sales Manager Oison of the Kandail-Dodd Auto company, local distributors of Oldsmobites, from the Olds Motor works, a new champion has arisen whose record should stand for many years, and this champion has challenged the world aud is ready for a contest at all times. Driving nfire wagon a quarter mile, stopping, connecting with a hydrant, laying J50 teot of . hose and connecting a nozzle to it, all in forty-three seconds, sec-onds, is quite an achievement for any fire department. The Liberty Hose company com-pany of Keyport, N. J., made this record recently when the members won the stat championship, competing against many other companies from various parts of New Jersey. Firemen from every part of the United Unit-ed States have sent congratulations to the Liberty company because they realize what a remarkable performance it was. The Liberty company has challenged chal-lenged every hose company "using motor apparatus to beat the record. Tho Liberty company members, driving driv-ing an Oldsmobile chassis with a special spe-cial body, made the quarter mile in twenty seconds, and then connected with the hydrant, laid the hose and attached the nozzle in twenty -three seconds, which they think is quite a mark for othor companies to shoot at. The rules under which the Liberty I company, contested provided -for three I full turns when attaching the hose to the hydrant and when attaching the nozzle. Further particulars can be obtained ob-tained from the Liberty company, which invites correspondence on the subject. "We never could have made such a record if it had not been for the car," said the Liberty captain iu commenting on the victory, ''Some of the other companies arc buying new machines to attempt to wrest from us the laurels we have so sensationally won." |