. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ains, and bolts. The crowd first turned their attentionto the Ten to One house, and a man on that building leveled his musketat them, but before he could pull the trigger Tom Primrose, of 33 Engine, hithim and knocked his musket up, the ball going through a doctors windowopposite, and just passing over the nose of that gentleman, who was lying inbed. The shot soon brought the constables, and the crowd quickly officers turned their attention to the Ten to One, from
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ains, and bolts. The crowd first turned their attentionto the Ten to One house, and a man on that building leveled his musketat them, but before he could pull the trigger Tom Primrose, of 33 Engine, hithim and knocked his musket up, the ball going through a doctors windowopposite, and just passing over the nose of that gentleman, who was lying inbed. The shot soon brought the constables, and the crowd quickly officers turned their attention to the Ten to One, from the roof of whichthey took thirteen muskets to the Tombs. They were so heavily loaded thatthe charges had to be drawn. Some of 33 Engine members were the presidential campaign of Polk and Clay in 1844, 33 EngineCompany took part in a Polk and Dallas procession against the rules andorders of the Department, and a few days later the Whigs turned out, and theparade was headed by a number of horsemen, among whom was Tom had with them a bell belonging to the Allaires, and on coming through. [Showing old engine house onGouverneur HilL as it ap-peared about the year1830. The original (workedin worsted) is now in pos-session of the JacksonClub, foot of JacksonStreet.] ? BLACK JOKE. (UK F 1 It F .M F X. til 1 Blast Broadway some one struck the Fourth District on it. Whether this wasdone because they were going through the Fourth District, or in a spirit ofmischief, cannot now be determined : at any rate :;:> Engine Company, alwaysready for an alarm, turned out, and as they met the procession, and saw the causeof the alarm, they swung around to ret urn to t heir house. Some of the horsesshied at the engine, and the rope upset others, and nearly upset the , in addition to other charges already in, caused the engine to be taken tothe Corporation Yard, and the company was formally disbanded November (>,1S44. Thomas Conner was elected alderm
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