From the Richmond Dispatch, 4/29/1881, p. 1, c. 3

PROTECTION AGAINST FIRE AT THE TREDEGAR WORKS. – Some time ago the Tredegar Company sent for the Chief Engineer of the Richmond Fire Department to show him the condition of affairs at the extensive establishment and to call his attention to the fact that by the recent railroad improvements in that vicinity the works were almost entirely cut off from the City Fire Department and their aid. Captain Taylor went up to the Tredegar Works and examined the premises with officers of the company. There are one or two powerful pumps with nozzles attached which are capable of throwing powerful streams. Very recently the Chief, with his assistant engineers, went up to the works with several sections of hose – leather and jacket (fabric) – to try the force of the water and power of the pumps. The first trial was with the leather hose, which was successful. The next was with the new jacket (cotton) hose, through which a very large and powerful stream was thrown more than two hundred feet.

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