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Frank and I didn’t mind wash day after that. When we first started this operation we had a lot of spectators from the bar room, Frank or I would sit in the drivers seat, open the steam throttle and the steamer would do the work. Frank and I often went out to Uncle Ed Mullers farm in Floral Park about 7 or 8 miles from Jamaica, they had a well, we would fill the water tank which held about 50 gallons, with this well water which was soft, on the way out we traveled about 15 miles per hour, on the way back we went almost twice as fast, we made many trips for that good water, no tire trouble these days, the old wagon had solid tires, we had this machine several years, I was on Merrick Road about a 1/2 mile from the house when one of the rear