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Landing the Hose Reel (1915)
Short | 30 min | Short, Comedy

Landing the Hose Reel (1915)

Short | 30 min | Short, Comedy

Frederick Warren, the New York millionaire, has a liking for Bloom Center, the little rural village where he was born and reared. Warren frequently donates funds for Bloom Center's public enterprises. The Ladies' Art Embroidery Club holds ...See moreFrederick Warren, the New York millionaire, has a liking for Bloom Center, the little rural village where he was born and reared. Warren frequently donates funds for Bloom Center's public enterprises. The Ladies' Art Embroidery Club holds a meeting in Melodeon Hall to discuss the need of a new hose reel for the Bloom Center Fire Department and Ira Pash, postmaster, is deputized to write Warren for money with which to purchase the apparatus. Warren and his daughter, Amy, read the letter and Warren notifies Bloom Center that if the inhabitants will raise half the required sum that he will donate the balance. Warren also instructs his daughter to visit Bloom Center, without revealing her identity and to ascertain whether or not the villagers appreciate his liberality. Amy arrives in Bloom Center and poses as a young lady with literary talents. She makes friends with Margaret Tate, editress of the Bloom Center Weekly Bugle. Amy's stylish garments and city manners create a sensation among the masculine gender of Bloom Center and incite the spirit of envy among the women. Warren's offer to donate half the money for the purchase of fire-fighting equipment occasions caustic comment among certain of the unappreciative villagers, but others prepare to seek ways and means to raise the necessary sum. A tax on whiskers is one method devised and rather than pay a dollar and continue to wear whiskers, many make a concerted rush for the Bloom Center tonsorial artist. A Lawn fete and other mediums are also employed. During the course of proceedings, Constable Plum plots to hold up auto speeders, but Chubby Green changes the sign much to the discomfiture of Constable Plum, who also gets into the bad graces of Mrs. Plum by acting the Gay Lothario to Amy. Amy, after participating in many of the endeavors of the villagers to raise the money writes to her father that it cannot be done and so Warren sends a check for the necessary amount. When the hose reel is purchased, Warren arrives and introduces Amy as his daughter, much to the consternation of those who had maligned her. A trial run of the hose reel is decided upon by Fire Chief Pash. Chubby Green and his boy friends start many false alarms and when Constable Plum discovers that Fire Chief Pash's home is really and truly burning down that functionary chides Plum for trying to pull a childish joke. He refuses to budge. However when the Fire Chief goes home, resplendent in helmet and boots, he is astounded to find that his dwelling is a smoldering mass of ruins. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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10 cast members

Name	Known for
Irene Wallace Margaret Tate Margaret Tate See fewer	The Lost City (1920)
Sidney Smith Johnny West Johnny West See fewer	The Ne'er Do Well (1915)
Ralph McComas Chubby Green Chubby Green See fewer	Haunted (1916)
William Hutchison Constable Plum (as William Hutchinson) Constable Plum (as William Hutchinson) See fewer	The Fair Barbarian (1917)
Lillian Leighton Mrs. Plum Mrs. Plum See fewer	Parisian Love (1925)
Martha Mattox Selina Tubbs Selina Tubbs See fewer	The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Lee Morris Phil Pickle Phil Pickle See fewer	Durand of the Bad Lands (1917)
John Lancaster Postmaster Ira Pash Postmaster Ira Pash See fewer	Two Gay Dogs (1912)
George Hernandez Frederick Warren Frederick Warren See fewer	Just Out of College (1920)
Elsie Greeson Amy Warren Amy Warren See fewer	In the Days of Buffalo Bill (1922)