Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . McGrority. Additional Fire Companies Organized. 747 he was declared to be out of danger, and soon was enabled to rejoiihis company. The election to the office of sheriff of Charles B. Farley, and theorganization of additional fire companies, necessitated the appoint-ment-of two more district engineers and additional foremen. Thesuperintendent of the Bureau of Combustibles, Mr. James Kellock,was a fireman of Hook and Ladder No. 6. The overseer of thedetailed mechanics is Charles Goodwin, of Truck 3.
Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . McGrority. Additional Fire Companies Organized. 747 he was declared to be out of danger, and soon was enabled to rejoiihis company. The election to the office of sheriff of Charles B. Farley, and theorganization of additional fire companies, necessitated the appoint-ment-of two more district engineers and additional foremen. Thesuperintendent of the Bureau of Combustibles, Mr. James Kellock,was a fireman of Hook and Ladder No. 6. The overseer of thedetailed mechanics is Charles Goodwin, of Truck 3. Both ofthese men had acceptably performed the duties devolving uponthem, and it was decided to promote them to the grade of were several other vacancies created by the death, transfer,and promotion of foremen. Fifteen foremen contested for the posi-tion of district engineer, but only three succeeded in passing the. First Assistant Chief John P. Smith. required examination, viz. : Doyle, of Engine 2 ; McGroarty, ofEngine 14, and Fanning, of Engine 15. In the contest for theposition of foreman, over forty aspirants appeared. After a search-ing examination, only nine of that number were selected, and thesewere subsequently assigned to duty. In the case of Travers, ofEngine 12, and Chin, of Engine 1, both of whom served creditablyin the war, a percentage was allowed them for their war record, andhaving passed the required civil-service examination, they wereassigned to duty as foremen. XX. OTHING is a greater reproach to the reasoning intellectof any age than a splenetic censoriousness on the mannersand characters of our ancestors. It is but common justicefor us to bear in mind that in those times we should havebeen as they were, as they in ours would have resembled are but the same men acting under different circumstances,wearing different dresses, and pursuing different objects, but
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