. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . your probation is at an end ; you can now in the church. •• Too late, deacon, too late. Ive joined an engine companyown here, and its going to take all my time to look after fires. Im laying tornow. \ on see I was bound to join something, and these follows lot mo in Mthout any probation; all I had to do was to shake clown my little two 148 OUR FIREMEN. dollars and I was called a member. Call around and see us. deacon. Wehave got as bully a little engine as ever stretched into a
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . your probation is at an end ; you can now in the church. •• Too late, deacon, too late. Ive joined an engine companyown here, and its going to take all my time to look after fires. Im laying tornow. \ on see I was bound to join something, and these follows lot mo in Mthout any probation; all I had to do was to shake clown my little two 148 OUR FIREMEN. dollars and I was called a member. Call around and see us. deacon. Wehave got as bully a little engine as ever stretched into a Are. Considering tbe superior class of men composing the Volunteer Department,the morals of the members must necessarily have been of a correspondingkind. This will be readily understood from some peculiar entries made in theminute books of 1 lie companies. For instance, in the book of Engine Com-pany No. 21 is found the following: Wm. A. Baker reports Mr. Cross-tbwaite as saying, Damn the odds. The secretary reports Mr. W. A. Bakerfor saying to John E. Norris (during an altercation between the two), You be. CERTIFICATE OF THE INDEPENDENT SIDEWALK ASSOCIATION. damned, you damned old Dutch hog. As nothing but the very gravestmatters are recorded in the minutes, it is clear that the offense of usingimpolite language is the worst the fire laddies of that period (1810) can beaccused of. It would seem that those old Volunteers had quite a profoundveneration for their engine houses, from the rules and regulations they madefor the maintenance of discipline. Under date of February 10, 1830, we find onthe minutes of Engine Company No. 13, that Mr. Tonnele was fined twice forswearing and once for chewing. Chewing ! What would our valued firemenof to-day say if the commissioners passed such a resolution as the following,which appears on the book of No. 13, on November 28, 1829 : OIK FIREMEN. I l!» Resolved, That if any member he found smoking a segar or chewing tohacco in the Kn-ur H
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