Garden hose

Mayor Scott also made himself useful, and, with a number of others, so manipulated a garden hose that the flames were prevented from spreading to the electric light buildings, which were only a few feet distant.

I'm not sure what that reason was either, but he needed about 500 feet of garden hose. I said, "Okay, I'll trade you the garden hose for two pallets of sandbags. And I need them trucked over there to Qua Viet."