From the Richmond Dispatch, 3/4/1863, p. 1, c. 5

Trial of a New Fire Engine. – The new steam fire-engine, made by Hitelger[?] & Edmond, and presented to the city by five of the leading insurance companies located here, having been completed, will be tried at 12 o'clock on Thursday, at the Basin, when a comparison will be made between the capacity of the new engine and the one made by the same parties for the city three years since.

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