. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . Allenwere secretaries of the Gulick Guards. Nicholas Bello was also a sergeant. TheGulick Guards were not mere sunshine soldiers—they exercised not only inthe drill room and streets, but camped out for a week in each year, and werethoroughly instructed in the practical life of a soldier. These encampments werein various sections; they went into camp at New Rochelle, Catskill, Hyde Park,and Keyport. During these encampments they were visited by many Gothamites,who to see
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . Allenwere secretaries of the Gulick Guards. Nicholas Bello was also a sergeant. TheGulick Guards were not mere sunshine soldiers—they exercised not only inthe drill room and streets, but camped out for a week in each year, and werethoroughly instructed in the practical life of a soldier. These encampments werein various sections; they went into camp at New Rochelle, Catskill, Hyde Park,and Keyport. During these encampments they were visited by many Gothamites,who to see how the boys looked under canvas. The visitors were hospit-ably entertained—put through the awkward squad, and given to understandthat they could not play off any of their practical jokes on old soldiers. TheGulick Guards paraded on all military occasions, with the Second Regiment, andColonel Spicer considered them the crack company of the regiment. At thetime of the anti-rent war they volunteered their services to the State, andheld themselves in readiness to march with the regiment. They were not called. BALL TICKET OF FULTON ENGINE COMPANY. 3 Into the field on this occasion, as the order for tin* military was afterwardscountermanded. Their first uniform was. Bre-coa1 of blue pilot cloth, withpants of the same material, white cross-belts, fire-cap skull with brass peakami frontispeiee. with a silver G. (J. The second uniform was double-breastedblue frock coat with jrill trimmings, blue pants with red stripes, white cross-belts with G. G. on the breast-plate, the cap the same as that worn by theSeventh Regiment at that period, With white pompon with red ball. They went on an excursion to Philadelphia, making the entire trip by wateron board of a schooner chartered for the occasion. The pleasure of this tripwas saddened by a most melancholy accident. One morning, while the vesselwas at Philadelphia. David Heulet and Frank Newman indulged in a littlesportive •skylarking.*
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