. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . unded for an up-town fire. The story is related in detail in an earlierchapter. No. 9 was called the Quill and Silk Stocking Company of theFourteenth Ward, but there was no silk stocking work about them when onduty. Many had narrow escapes at fires. At a fire on Broadway, Tom Boeseand Harry Mansfield had a narrow escape by the falling of a wall. ThomasCochran fell off a roof corner of Broadway and Broome Street in 1848, andwas seriously injured. In 1849 George T. Hopper and Jose
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . unded for an up-town fire. The story is related in detail in an earlierchapter. No. 9 was called the Quill and Silk Stocking Company of theFourteenth Ward, but there was no silk stocking work about them when onduty. Many had narrow escapes at fires. At a fire on Broadway, Tom Boeseand Harry Mansfield had a narrow escape by the falling of a wall. ThomasCochran fell off a roof corner of Broadway and Broome Street in 1848, andwas seriously injured. In 1849 George T. Hopper and Joseph M. Harperwere added to the roll, and during the fall of this year they went on anexcursion to Alban3, Utica, Auburn, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, andCanada. They were absent thirteen days, parading twenty-six men andaccompanied by Dodworths Band. Their reception at these places was onecontinuous ovation along the route, and on their return some twenty companiesturned out to bid them a welcome home. Early in 1850 some dissatisfactionarose, when all but six members resigned and reorganized Engine Company. BADGE OF Ol K 1 1 I! K M K N. No. !), which had been disbanded. During1 this year John W. Garside, betterknown ;is Johnny ( larside and Dandy (Jig, was elected foreman, and tiesucceeded in working the company up to its former standing. ()n Friday, May »S, ;1, the company brought home their new carriage;from the painters. The body was a plum color, the running .year brown,with gilt, red and white stripes. On the reel were two beautiful paintings :on the right panel was a very pretty design, entitled The Guardian Angels,representing a child slumbering on a couch and an angel leaning over thehead of the couch, and another watching at the side. n the lefl panel wasan elegant and chaste design, entitled Repose, representing a group offemales reposing under the shade of a cluster of trees. The pictures on thereel were encircled by a silver rim, and the outer edge of th
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