. The Exempt firemen of San Francisco; their unique and gallant record. ing one of theoriginal engine companies of the paidFire Department. Nevertheless, it maylay claim to the title of being the legiti-mate successor of Young America EngineCompany No. 13 of the Volunteer FireDepartment, whose house it took chargeof. It was organized April 15, 1868, asan engine company and supplanted HoseCompany No. 5, one of the pioneer hosecompanies of the Department. Theoriginal roll of members of Engine No. 7was : Isaac V. Denniston, foreman ; , Fleming, engineer; John H. Sutch,driver; John Cook, stoker
. The Exempt firemen of San Francisco; their unique and gallant record. ing one of theoriginal engine companies of the paidFire Department. Nevertheless, it maylay claim to the title of being the legiti-mate successor of Young America EngineCompany No. 13 of the Volunteer FireDepartment, whose house it took chargeof. It was organized April 15, 1868, asan engine company and supplanted HoseCompany No. 5, one of the pioneer hosecompanies of the Department. Theoriginal roll of members of Engine No. 7was : Isaac V. Denniston, foreman ; , Fleming, engineer; John H. Sutch,driver; John Cook, stoker, and SamuelPeterson, Patrick Fitzsimmons, John , Alfred Reilly, James West, SAN FRANCISCO FIREMEN 191 Jeremiah F. Crowley, H, P. Fogarty,and W. Allen, extramen. It wentinto service with an Amoskeag the first official report of ChiefWhitney to the Board of Fire Commis-sioners he recommended that a steamerbe placed in charge of Hose 5, at theMission, to be known as Steamer was in 1867, and the following yearEngine No. 7 sprang into CAPT. ARTHUR WELCH The captain of the company is ArthurWelch who was born in San FranciscoMarch 6, 1870, and joined the departmentJuly II, 1892; promoted to foremanFebruary 4, 1895. He is an intelligentand capable fire fighter and has an ex-perienced body of firemen in his com-pany. In the 32 years of its active serviceEngine No. 7 has combated many a con-flagration, and has been a forceful parti-cipant in battling with the flames at allthe big fires of the city. The other members of the companyare: Lieutenant, Samuel E. Kennard ; engineer, M. J. Rodrigues; driver, LemuelRudolph ; stoker, John Allen ; hosemen,Charles Molloy, J. M. Rojas and WilliamSmith. In April, 1893, Driver Rudolphwon the Examiner silver trophy of-fered by that journal in a competitionopen to all the companies in the depart-ment for the fastest time for a driver toleave his bed and get out of the enginehouse with his engine. Rudolph brokethe re
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