Broome county . ssion forfallen women is on Front street. POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS. In .lune, 1836 ninty-one citizens of Binghamton presented spetition to the board of aldermen requesting them to raise :)!600to purchase a fire engine, sixteen young men at the same timepresented a petition asking that they might be formed into company. The next year a party of boys petitioned to beformed into a .Juvenile fire company. The two companies in1837 were called Pha>nix, with C. L. Robinson as foreman, andCataract with Waring S. Weed as foreman. The present Me-chanics Hose Company was form
Broome county . ssion forfallen women is on Front street. POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS. In .lune, 1836 ninty-one citizens of Binghamton presented spetition to the board of aldermen requesting them to raise :)!600to purchase a fire engine, sixteen young men at the same timepresented a petition asking that they might be formed into company. The next year a party of boys petitioned to beformed into a .Juvenile fire company. The two companies in1837 were called Pha>nix, with C. L. Robinson as foreman, andCataract with Waring S. Weed as foreman. The present Me-chanics Hose Company was formed from the old Phcenix. The Fountain Bucket Company was formed in 1842. Thel^awyer Hose Company, afterwards called the Crystal Hose , was founded in 1858 and has been one of the most prominenthose companies of the state. The present officers of the firedepartment are: Chief Engineer, Charles N. Hogg; First Asst, James El-dredge ; Second Asst, A. H. Lyon; clerk, Fred Michelback. 84 BROOME COUNTY RESIDENCE OF HRS. MELINDA OSBORNE, 179 (RONT SI, , N. Y. BROOME COUNTY ILLUSTRATED. «5 Steamer. City of Binghamton, W. H. lagi-aham, engineer;steamer Bennett, Charles Dimmick, engineer. Cyrstal Hose Co., No. 1—H. C. Maxwell, foreman. Alert Hose Co., Xo. 2—Edwin Scrafford, foreman. Protection Hose Co., No. 3—Charles Everett, foreman. Fountain Chemical Engine Co , No. 4—C. A. Tucker, foreman Independent Hose Co., No. 5—.lames Dundon, foreman. ^Mechanics Hose Co., No. 6—Martin Burke, foreman. Roekbottom Hose Co., No. 7—B. G. Devaney, foreman. Excelsior Hook and Ladder Co., No. I—Clarence Bullis,foreman. Police Department.—The present Police Department ofthis city was organized in 1881; the first board of commissionerswere T. G. Rich, .Tohn S. Wells, <t. W. Dunn and Lewis The present officers are: Chief—Charles H. Meade. Asst Chiefs—C. Burdette Abel and William Moore. o MISCELLANEOUS. Ci/y Parks.— Ross Park was presented to
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