. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . eston SteamshipCompany, at Pier 2C, N. R. Hehas been purser, and for the pasttwelve years has been in the cityand harbor transportation busi-ness for the Charleston, Morgan,and Guion line of steamers. Hewas elected supervisor of KingsCounty in 1878, served four years,and was president of the Board in1880-81. On retiring from thepresidency he was presented witha handsomely framed set of reso-lutions, which grace the walls ofthe Washington Club of Brook-lyn, of Avhich has been the
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . eston SteamshipCompany, at Pier 2C, N. R. Hehas been purser, and for the pasttwelve years has been in the cityand harbor transportation busi-ness for the Charleston, Morgan,and Guion line of steamers. Hewas elected supervisor of KingsCounty in 1878, served four years,and was president of the Board in1880-81. On retiring from thepresidency he was presented witha handsomely framed set of reso-lutions, which grace the walls ofthe Washington Club of Brook-lyn, of Avhich has been the presi-dent since its organization, cover-ing a period of five years. Hewas one of the organizers of theVolunteer Firemens Association, of this city. He also belongs to and is a lifemember of the Exempt Firemens Association, and a member of the VeteranFiremens Association, and its president for the last two years. Mr. Andersonis a member of the Brooklyn Bridge Trustees. James J. Ferris, first vice-president of the Volunteer Firemens Associ-ation of the City of New York, is an old Fourth Warder, and is fifty-two. OEORGE W. ANDERSON. OUR FIR E MEN. 18., years old. On attaining his majority lie joined Eagle Engine Company, :>. He served upwards of ton years in the company, lour years of which hewas secretary. His record as a volunteer fireman in the New York Depart-ment is one that he may well be proud of. He is also a member of theAssociation of Fxempt Firemen of the city of New York, and held in highesteem In his fellow members. At the commencement of the war he wasanions the first to subscribe his name on the roll of the Ellsworth FireZouaves, insisting on entering the service as a private, although he had hadconsiderable military experience previously, he being- captain in command ofthe *• Continental Bines (an independent uniformed organization) for somefive years before the war, and at the time of entering upon the roll of Com-pany G of the Eleventh Regiment. While
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