Hartford, CT.  September 12, 1895

5th League Tournament

No. Engine Name Home Town Builder Score Prize
1. Watch City Waltham, MA Button 212' 7 3/8" $200
2. Red Jacket Cambridge, MA Button 202' 2 3/4" $150
3. White Angel Salem, MA Button 201' 10 5/8" $100
4. Veteran Charlestown, MA Jeffers 196' 3 1/2" $50
5. Volunteer #4 Central Falls, RI Button 192' 6 3/8"
6. Nonantum Newton, MA Button 190' 8 5/8"
7. Hay Cart Pawtucket, RI Jeffers 187' 5 1/2"
8. Gaspee #9 Providence, RI Jeffers 178' 11"
9. Gen. Putnam Worcester, MA Button 178' 2 3/4"
10. Whaler New Bedford, MA Button 178' 2 1/2"
11. Hancock #2 Somerville, MA Hunneman 177' 6 3/4"
12. Tremont Roxbury, MA Hunneman 174' 3 1/3"
13. Vixen #1 Lowell, MA Cowing 169' 7 1/2"
14. S.W. Morton Springfield, MA Button 166' 11 1/4"
15. Col. Ellsworth Hartford, CT Cowing 164'
16. Melville #6 Boston, MA Hunneman 162'
17. Hancock #1 Hyde Park, MA Cowing 154' 4 5/8"
18. New Haven, CT Withdrew
S.W. Morton had 136 men in line. Silver trophy valued at $150.00 to Watch City. Best appearance $25.00 to White Angel. Best looking tub $25.00 to Red Jacket. In this muster the Lowells brought out their new Cowing engine for the first time in a League Muster, and the Hyde Parks, the Hancock a Cowing engine, which they had borrowed on an exchange with an active company of Brockton. (reprinted from an unknown publication)
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