. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ths. They received a true Philadelphia welcome, and werereceived at Burlington by the Hope Hose Company and a delegation from theHope Hose Company of Philadelphia, whose guests they were to be, Mr. C. ol K K I K E M K \ W. Hepburn acting as chairman of tin (on unit tec of Arrangements and chiefmarshal of ihe Hopes. After an exchange of courtesies on the part ol tinCommittee and their quests. Win. Moran. received the New Yorkers ina neat speech in the cars at Burlington, we


. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ths. They received a true Philadelphia welcome, and werereceived at Burlington by the Hope Hose Company and a delegation from theHope Hose Company of Philadelphia, whose guests they were to be, Mr. C. ol K K I K E M K \ W. Hepburn acting as chairman of tin (on unit tec of Arrangements and chiefmarshal of ihe Hopes. After an exchange of courtesies on the part ol tinCommittee and their quests. Win. Moran. received the New Yorkers ina neat speech in the cars at Burlington, welcoming them upon the soil ofNew Jersey, hut more particularly upon the spot, made interesting in ourhistory by the landing of Penn. In the City of Brotherly Love* they werereceived by tin following companies: Reliance Engine Company, HumaneHose Company, Assistance Engine Company, Becks Philadelphia Band. HopeHose Company, Dodworths Cornet Band, Marion Hose Company No. 4. ofNew York, with their carriage handsomely decorated with wreaths. FranklinEngine Company, Bayleys Independent Mrass Hand. Columbia Hose Com-. HAT AND TRUMPET OF DAVID C. BRODERICK. pany. Good Will Engine Company, Washington Brass Band, Diligent HoseCompany, Northern Liberty Hose Company. Marion Hose Company, Penn-sylvania Hose Company, Schuylkill Hose Company. The procession w;i->under the direction of the following gentlemen : Colonel Thomas B. Florence,chief marshal; Samuel Van Stavoren and John Chambers, aids: SamuelFreas, John F. Gibson, John Porter, and George Bobbins, assistant marshals. No. 5.—New YORK.—The first New York was organized March 20, 1833,was located in Eldridge Street, near Division, and was disbanded on September23, 1833. Its foi-eman was Walter Welsh, with John Peach, assistant. New York.—On September 26, 1836, three days after the disbanding of thecompany of the same name and number, another was organized by the following : 638 OUK FIREMEN. T. C. Sherman, Cfaas. E. Wardell, Car


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