. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . he recipients of no less than four presents : of a splendid silkbanner from the Argonauta Boat Club, one from the Bergen Point AthleticClub, a handsome banner from the ladies of Bayonne, and a set of colors from OUR IM \l K M E N. 767 the Fin* Department. (>n Thursday*. October l >. iss:>, they received PhoenixHose Company No. l. of Poughkeepsie, while en route home alter a mostdelightful visit to Albany, Boston and Salem, Mayor Ezra While and Chief[Engineer William Kae
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . he recipients of no less than four presents : of a splendid silkbanner from the Argonauta Boat Club, one from the Bergen Point AthleticClub, a handsome banner from the ladies of Bayonne, and a set of colors from OUR IM \l K M E N. 767 the Fin* Department. (>n Thursday*. October l >. iss:>, they received PhoenixHose Company No. l. of Poughkeepsie, while en route home alter a mostdelightful visit to Albany, Boston and Salem, Mayor Ezra While and Chief[Engineer William Kaess, of Poughkeepsie, accompanying them. < hi thetwelfth of January, 18S6, they gave their first annual ball at the MetropolitanOpera Bouse, delegates from all the leading Eire Departments this side of theAlleghanies being present. The double deck engine that they took to Wash-ington, and t he silver carriage of Phoenix Hose No. I, of Poughkeepsie, thatcosi about four thousand dollars, were conspicuous at one end of the the twenty-fourth of June. ISSli, they visited Iona Island, and on the fourth. Matthew T. Breunan. IARLORS OF VETERAN ASSOCIATION. Fred. A. Ridabock. [53 East Tenth Street.] of October, 1886, they went to Poughkeepsie to take part in the annual paradeof the Fire Department of that city. President GeorgeW. Anderson was, asusual, in command, ex-Assistant Engineer James acting as grandmarshal. They were received on the evening of their arrival by the wholeFire Department, under Chief Engineer W. Kaess, but were the special guestsof Phoenix Hose No. 1. They were escorted through the leading streets of the, city, amid a blaze of fireworks, six blazing barrels lining both sides of thestreets for over two miles, while the people turned out in a mass to bid themwelcome. A banquet was given them at Armory Hall, and after the paradeon the following day they were again entertained, the Phoenix boys doingspecial honors at their carriage house before
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